Urban camps
The summer holidays are starting for the little ones and it is not always easy for parents to reconcile family and work. According to Aventurama Camps, Urban camps are a solution to this problem, as they make it easier for parents to look after their children while they are at work. This company offers parents several urban camps in Madrid for this summer 2025, differentiating between those that can be carried out in schools and those that are organised in the family's own urbanisations.
For those who are also in the city of Madrid, it is likely that they will be able to access some of the urban camps organised or coordinated by the Madrid City Council itself.
Extracurricular activities and camps
For parents who still don't know how useful after-school activities are for children, we have compiled 17 good reasons to sign your children up for the next summer camp. After-school programmes are defined as activities that take place outside children's school hours. Their purpose is, and can be, none other than to improve and enhance children's physical, intellectual and social development. And to provide competences.
Within the extracurricular activities there are many to choose from, there are sports activities, there are cultural activities, there are others that allow children to learn skills or subjects, or even a whole series of activities that allow children to learn new experiences from a more playful perspective.
All very well, but what are the exact premises that turn extracurricular activities into tools for learning and for social and intellectual formation? There are several, determining factors to a greater or lesser extent. We have summed them up in a dozen or so, almost twenty. They are these:
- Because children improve their control over time and, in the process, do a lot to learn how to organise themselves.
- Because they improve their study habits when they carry out activities outside the dynamics of the educational centres.
- Because they have the invaluable opportunity to discover environments, situations and companies that may be very different from their otherwise stricter and more regimented academic environments.
- Because extracurricular activities help to reinforce their socialisation processes.
- Because after-school activities that involve physical exercise help to improve a child's reflexes, endurance, agility, motor coordination, strength and even elasticity.
- Because after-school activities with an artistic profile, such as painting, music or drama classes, help to give the child new tools for communication and self-expression.
Drama classes improve expressiveness, creativity, spontaneity, imagination, musical intelligence and sense of rhythm. This results in an improvement of self-confidence.
- Because there is a positive stimulus based on competition - yes, indeed, positive.
- Because they help to see others as equals, developing empathies, a kind of tolerance that is part of the rules of the game in participating in egalitarian group activities.
- Because it develops a spirit of cooperation and teamwork.
- Because those that pursue an intellectual goal help to improve the ability to read, write and understand what has been read.
- Because sharing space and time with other students improves self-control, discipline, perseverance and, under normal circumstances, also honesty.
- Because they make it possible to act as a bridge when parents' jobs prevent them from picking up their children from school on time. They are, in a way, a formula that improves the family arrangement, adjusts times and introduces a variable in the safety and custody of the children in a natural way, especially if the activities are carried out in the same centre where the children are studying.
- Because the variety of offers at the moment is so great that it is difficult to choose an argument for giving up extracurricular activities.
- Because after-school activities can be a perfect support, a therapy, for children's attention disorders, especially in the case of children who have been diagnosed as hyperactive.
- Because, outside the more regimented environment of a school setting, children may be better able to develop greater concentration and memorisation of the relevant information they receive.
- Because the directed tasks of extracurricular activities help to improve individual decision-making, to assume responsibilities, to overcome mistakes and to enjoy successes and victories in the company of other classmates.
- Because after-school activities are a healthy and fun way to release energy and help to relax tensions.
- Because knowledge and experience are acquired and reinforced.
After-school activities are not educational initiatives designed to fill holidays and children's timetables, they are something extraordinary, they can be ways of learning in a different way, sources of new experiences and a very stimulating way of teaching how to grow up. Aren't these enough reasons?.
You can see more activities in our section with children in Madrid
