So now let me tell you about some of the activities that your child can do during the afterschool sessions.

现在让我给您介绍一些孩子在课后可以做的活动。

As well as being able to use the playground equipment, computers and the library, there is usually at least one 'special' activity that children can do each day.

除了使用游乐场设备、电脑和图书馆，孩子们每天通常至少可以做一项“特殊”活动。

For example, Spanish.

比如西班牙语。

We have a specialist teacher coming in every Thursday to give a basic introduction to the language through games and songs.

我们每周四都会有一位专家老师来，通过游戏和歌曲对语言进行简单介绍。

She does two sessions: one for the over 8s and one for the younger children.

她有两个课程：一个是针对8岁以上的孩子，另一个是针对年幼的孩子。

This is the only activity which we have to make an extra charge for – but it's well worth it.

这是我们唯一需要额外收费的活动，但它非常值得。

Once a week the children have the opportunity to do some music.

孩子们每周有一次机会感受音乐。

We're very lucky that one of our staff is a member of a folk band.

我们很幸运，我们的一名员工是一个民间乐队的成员。

On Mondays, she teaches singing and percussion to groups of children.

周一，她会教孩子们唱歌和打击乐。

We do rely on parental support for this, so if any of you sing or play an instrument and would be prepared to help out at these sessions, we'd be delighted.

我们确实需要家长的支持，所以如果你们当中有人会唱歌或演奏乐器，并准备在这些活动上提供帮助，我们将非常高兴。

Painting continues to be one of the most popular activities.

绘画仍然是最受欢迎的活动之一。

To begin with we weren't keen on offering this because of the extra mess involved, but children kept asking if they could do some art and so we finally gave in.

一开始，我们并不想要于组织这个活动，因为这会弄得一团糟。但孩子们一直在问他们是否可以做一些美术相关的事情，所以我们最终让步了。

Art is great for helping the children to relax after working hard at school all day.

艺术是帮助孩子们在全天努力学习后放松身心的好方法。

Yoga is something that we've been meaning to introduce for some time but haven't been able to find anyone available to teach it – until now that is.

瑜伽是我们一直想引入的内容，但一直找不到合适的教师，直到现在才找到。

So we'll see how this goes.

接下来我们会看看如何进行这项活动。

Hopefully, children will benefit in all sorts of ways from this.

希望孩子们能从中受益。

Cooking is another popular activity.

烹饪是另一项受欢迎的活动。

They make a different sort of cake, or pizza or bread each week.

他们每周制作不同种类的蛋糕、披萨或面包。

Although the younger children love doing it, we found that the mess was just too much, so we've decided to restrict this to the over 8s, as they are better able to clean up after themselves.

虽然年幼的孩子们喜欢这样做，但我们发现这太乱了，所以我们决定将年龄限制在8岁以上，因为他们能更好地打理他们弄脏的地方。