Cape Town After School Activities

Fun Clubs and Private Tuition

Our Cape Town After School Activities Listing is just a start for you to help you explore the manifold opportunities for exercise and stimulation to keep your kids entertained and motivated.

Let's start with fun sports classes to get your child either to get rid of all the extra energy after a long day at school and re-energised and motivated. Physical exercise classes are vital for any child's development and unfortunately not even all primary schools in Cape Town offer sports tuition after school. Here is our list of qualified and recommended sports coaches and sports academies.

Extramural Sports and Fitness Classes

• Ball Games: Actionball has a movement skills programme.
• Various sports: Sporting Chance offers sports development and coaching programmes and afternoon clinics
• Tennis: Atlantic Tennis Academy offers professional tennis coaching
• Soccer: FivesFutbol offers soccer clinics and fun games
• Riding: Camelot Riding School in Durbanville and Whispering Pines Riding School in Hout Bay
• Swimming: Laughing Waters Swim School in Milnerton, Simply Swimming instructors in various suburbs
• Swimming/Lifesaving: Nippers programme is offered for children from 8 years at various lifesaving clubs. Enquire at a lifesavers club near your home.
• Yoga: Yoga4Kids has yoga classes for children up to 13 years

Cape Town After School Activities: Arts, Drama and Music

Arts and Music Classes bring out the creative potential in your children. 

• Arts: The Frank Joubert Arts Centre in Newlands offers a wide variety of classes to high school children and an extramural program for kids of all ages.
• Painting: Artjamming provides freestyle paining sessions.
• Ceramics Painting: Clay Cafe in Hout Bay offers fun sessions for kids and adults and hosts birthday parties
• Music and Orchestra: Hugo Lambrechts Music Centre in Parow. Oldest and biggest music school in the Cape.
• Music: Kindermusik offers music classes for children up to 7 years
• Drama classes: Helen O’Grady Drama Academy offers weekly classes and holiday programmes
• Performing Arts: Stagecoach offers acting, singing and drama classes to children from 4 years to 18 years

Maths, Science and Language Tuition | Coding & Robotics

Let's not forget these learning centres offering extension classes for the under motivated and support classes for all those who need a little bit of extra help with school.

For maths and science extension classes as well as remedial and support lessons with private tutors for improving confidence, try the following cents:

• Maths: Kumon: Maths classes and private tuition. Various locations throughout Cape Town.
• Maths: Mastermaths. Various centres. Grade 4 to Grade 12
• Physical Science: Masterscience. Various centres. Physical science tuition for grades 10 – 12.
• English: KipMcGrath education centres in Durbanville or Somerset West.
• Dutch: Nederlands School Kaapstad: weekly lessons at two locations: Noordhoek and Mowbray
• Italian Language Classes: Società Dante Aligheri Italian School
  
• French Language Classes: Alliance Francaise
• German Language Classes: Goethe Institut
• Spanish and Portuguese Language Courses: Mi Casa School of Languages
  
• Chinese Language Courses in Cape Town: Huang Lao Shi Mandarin Classes
• Korean Langauge Classes in Cape Town: Cape Town Korean School
• Coding Classes: Cape Town Science Centre
• IT, Coding and Robotics: Edro

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