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How Extracurricular Activities Can Help Students

For the child's development, extracurricular activities play an important role in a student's life. Students may get pressurized during exams, and they have performance pressure of gaining good marks. Let’s admit, we cannot force a student just to read books and become clever. In these conditions, extracurricular activities help to bust the stress. Extra activities, events or contests are important for the overall growth of students.

Sometimes, parents do not permit their children to participate when a school sports or extra activities or events/contests. Parents feel that extra activities will disturb their children from their studies. Also sometimes, few students feel that they do not need the activities; they need to concentrate on their books. They may also create peer pressure on others.

In many schools, teachers must convince parents to allow their children to participate in such activities. Co-curricular activities are foremost, just as academics. When a child participates in academics and co-curricular activities, only then well-rounded student development happens.  Students have lots of activities to decide from. Cultural activities, Events, contests, sports activities, competitions, house on duties and a lot more. Some students are also interested in more than one activity, and they do participate in both, keeping in mind their academics.

BENEFITS OF EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

Allow a productive break from schooling!

• Weekly activities can offer a fresh break from studies and homework, especially for senior students if they have extra time. Depending on your child's interests, they may get time to get outside and exercise, see friends, pursue a hobby or refresh, and de-stress their mind. They also help reduce your child's time in front of a mobile, computer or television screen.

Improving their academic performance

• A student who participates in extracurricular activities gets better marks. This is due to the skills they learn from engaging in different extracurricular activities. Students learn organizational skills, manage time, and enhance self-confidence. Students can also learn to express themselves in a greater way.

It can help your child to build their skills outside of the classroom

• Besides building skills within a certain discipline, Events or contests activities are great for developing soft skills and general academic. Think debating for open speaking, academic competitions for exam strategies and sport for teamwork. Balancing several commitments can improve your child's time management skills, while finding an area they enjoy or excel at can boost self-confidence.

It can improve time management skills

• Students who participate in extracurricular activities need to learn time management to manage time between extracurricular and academics. They learn to manage their time and learn how to keep themselves engaged in their free time. Everything they do will be productive. Time management plays an extensive role in examinations also, how to write answers in what time is also an important skill to learn. Time management will be used throughout life.

learning new & useful skills

• Students also learn new skills which are helpful in school life. Skills like time management, teamwork, management of any activity, leading a group and many more additional skills. Students who participate in extracurricular and sports activities have better leadership skills and learn how to grow and build relations.

It can open your child's mind to a new view

• While students generally can pursue a wide range of study domains through core subjects and electives, extracurricular activities allow students to explore skills that cannot be covered in the classroom. They may even find a new interest that they would not have been discovered too otherwise.