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So, now let me tell you about some of the activities that your child can do during the after-school sessions. 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. 

现在，让我来告诉您一些您的孩子在课后可以进行的活动。除了能够使用操场设备、电脑和图书馆外，孩子们通常每天还可以进行至少一项特殊活动。

For example, Spanish. We have a specialist teacher coming in every Thursday to give a basic introduction to the language through games and songs. She does two sessions, one for the older children and one for the younger ones. This is the only activity which we have to make an extra charge for, but it's well worth it.

例如，西班牙语。我们有一位专业老师每周四来，通过游戏和歌曲对西班牙语进行基本介绍。她开设两节课，一节课针对年龄较大的孩子，一节课针对年龄较小的孩子。这是我们唯一需要额外收费的活动，但非常值得。

Once a week, the children have the opportunity to do some music. We're very lucky that one of our staff is a member of a folk band. On Mondays, she teaches singing and percussion to groups of children. 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.

每周一次，孩子们有机会演奏音乐。我们很幸运，我们的一名员工是民间乐队的成员。周一，她会教一群孩子唱歌和打击乐。我们确实依靠家长的支持，所以如果你们当中有人会唱歌或演奏乐器，并愿意在这些课程中提供帮助，我们会非常高兴。

Painting continues to be one of the most popular activities. 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. Art is great for helping the children to relax after working hard at school all day.

绘画仍然是最受欢迎的活动之一。一开始，我们并不热衷于提供这项活动，因为会造成额外的混乱，但孩子们一直问他们是否可以做一些艺术，所以我们最终让步了。艺术可以帮助孩子们在学校辛苦学习一整天后放松身心。

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. So, we'll see how this goes. Hopefully, children will benefit in all sorts of ways from this.

我们一直想介绍瑜伽，但一直找不到人教它——直到现在。所以，我们会看看情况如何。希望孩子们能从中受益匪浅。

Cooking is another popular activity. They make a different sort of cake, pizza, or bread each week. 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 older children as they are better able to clean up after themselves.

烹饪是另一项受欢迎的活动。他们每周都会做不同种类的蛋糕、披萨或面包。虽然年纪较小的孩子喜欢做这件事，但我们发现太乱了，所以我们决定只让年龄较大的孩子做，因为他们更有能力自己收拾残局。

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