Effects of Extracurricular Activities on the Academic Performance of Grade VI Pupils at Tandang Sora Elementary School

Abstract

We all know that school is the place where we learn, invest, and gain some knowledge from our respective teachers. It is also a place where students develop their socialization, make friends, and develop special skills and hidden talents. The best part of it is it serves us a path where we can experience different activities we may have interest in. Doing some extracurricular activities are counted asone of them. There are some reasons why students engage in extracurricular activities in their school. Advantages include being given additional points or grades in their reports cards, meeting and making new friends with the same interest as them and learning to work in a group to develop leadership skills. Although extracurricular activities can help improve student academics, they can have bad effects on how grades turn out. Extracurricular activities take the time for completing homework or studying (Wells). The researcher used purposive sampling because the researcher chose all active pupils in school activities in Tandang Sora Elementary School. This sampling design was chosen because it is more suitable for research. The basic assumption behind purposive sampling is it is good judgment and appropriate strategy where one can hand-pick the class to be included in the sample and thus develops a sample that is satisfactory to one’s need. Based on the gathered data, the researchers came up with the findings that the majority of the respondents at Tandang Sora Elementary School are females and most of them are 11 to 13 years old. Basketball gained the highest frequency in the survey. The reasons for pupils joining extracurricular activities is to get higher grades and to discover their talents and passion. The effects of joining extracurricular activities include they cannot join academic activities, there is a delay in taking exams, and being unable to attend class on time. This study aims to know the effects of extracurricular activities so that it may not affect the academic performance of every pupil.