Life is about more than work. It is about family and community; it is about you, the individual. Helping your children lead truly balanced lives involves both modelling balance in your own life and helping them find balance in theirs.
1. An Extra Effort for a Better Result
Life is about more than work. It is about family and community; it is about you, the
individual. Helping your children lead truly balanced lives involves both modelling balance in
your own life and helping them find balance in theirs. Extracurricular refers to things your
children do outside of normal school classes. Adults also engage in extracurricular activities
when they do things outside the normal duties of their job or profession. Extracurricular
activities are important for all of us.
The major players in education industry are keen on providing an extra effort to boost up
the co-curricular activities of their students. Because it is an understood factor that co-
curricular activities help children to focus more widen their thinking and brain development.
Children who are involved in sports get higher school grades, have an increased sense of
self-worth, and are more likely to complete high school than children who are not involved
in sport. Children involved in sports are also generally healthier due to their increased
activity, and have stronger social networks than children who do not participate in sport.
Children involved in music activities (such as learning a musical instrument) are often better
adjusted, with increased academic performance, ability to think creatively, emotional
understanding, and emotional expression. Children involved in music typically have better
memory skills than those who are not musically trained.
The importance of extracurricular activities at school is well established. The primary goals
of extracurricular activities focus on the individual student level, the institutional level, and
the broader community level. These activities exist to complement the school's academic
curriculum and to enhance the student's educational experience. Research clearly shows
that almost any type of student involvement in high school and middle school positively
affects student learning and development. Extracurricular activities provide a setting to
become involved and to interact with other students, thus leading to increased learning and
enhanced development. Specifically, a student's peer group is the most important source of
influence on a student's academic and personal development. By identifying with a peer
group, that group may influence a student's cognitive development as well as his or her
behaviour. And the players in education sector puts all their effort to make this possible.
Student involvement in extracurricular activities also positively impacts educational
attainment. Research indicates that extracurricular involvement has a positive impact on
attaining a college degree and on educational aspirations. Students who are actively
engaged are more likely to have higher educational ambitions than uninvolved students.