Guide · After school
After-school activities for children in Belgrade
Sport, music, art and language classes, indexed by what your child would actually do. Every provider from its own page, with the date we read it — and no prices or timetables anywhere, on purpose.
Updated September 2026 · providers' own pages read 1 September 2026, for the 2026/27 season
86 providers across twelve kinds of activity, every one of them taken from a page the provider publishes itself. Alongside them, ten of the nineteen international schools in this guide publish a list of what they run after the bell, seven publish nothing you could act on, and for two the site could not be read at all. That middle number is the finding: for many families the activity they are about to pay for is already included, and no school makes it easy to check.
By activity
| Activity | What it covers | Providers | Schools that run it too |
|---|---|---|---|
| Swimming | Swimming schools and clubs that publish a children’s programme. | 10 | 2 |
| Football | Football schools and clubs that take children. | 5 | 5 |
| Basketball | Basketball schools run by Belgrade clubs. | 4 | 4 |
| Tennis | Tennis clubs that publish a children’s school. | 4 | 1 |
| Martial arts | Karate, judo, taekwondo and aikido clubs that take children. | 7 | 3 |
| Ballet and dance | Ballet and dance studios, gymnastics clubs and skating schools. | 10 | 6 |
| Music | Private music schools, instrument tuition and children’s choirs. | 11 | 9 |
| Art | Drawing, painting, design and ceramics studios that teach children. | 9 | 5 |
| Chess | Chess schools and clubs with a children’s programme. | 4 | 5 |
| Coding and robotics | Programming, robotics and STEM clubs for children. | 10 | 5 |
| Serbian for foreign children | Where a child who does not speak Serbian can learn it. | 9 | 3 |
| English | Language schools that publish a children’s English programme. | 6 | 2 |
We do not publish prices, timetables or term dates for any of these, even where the provider publishes them. They change every term, and an out-of-date class time is worse than none at all. Every row links to the provider's own page, which is where the current schedule lives.
What the schools themselves run
| School | Activities named | Some of them | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| BIS | 33 | pottery, cooking, capoeira, cricket, volleyball, football… | Their page |
| Brook Hill | 1 | swimming | Their page |
| DSB | 20 | juggling, outdoor movement, chess, football, reading, yoga and pilates… | Their page |
| EFB | 13 | music, ballet, pilates, cooking, homework help, visual arts… | Their page |
| International School | 11 | eco club, debate, film club, book club, mindfulness, Python… | Their page |
| IPS | 11 | English, maths tutoring, Serbian for non-natives, speech therapy, guitar, piano… | Their page |
| ISB | 8 | soccer, basketball, volleyball, choir, Model United Nations, math counts… | Their page |
| London Gates | 15 | ensemble, theatre studio, 3D modelling, acting in English, chess, Lego robotics… | Their page |
| PRIMA | 7 | drama and performing arts, track and field, basketball, football, volleyball, choir… | Their page |
| Ruđer Bošković | 16 | science, drama, art, choir, dance and folk dance, sport… | Their page |
The middle column counts what the school names on its own page. Chartwell, Green School, Westbridge, EDUCA, Crnjanski, Deseta gimnazija and Ruska škola publish no list we could act on — some have a page in the right place that names only categories, one names annual events rather than clubs a child joins. For Young Sparrows and Russian Embassy school we could not read the site at all, which is not the same as finding nothing.
What language will my child be coached in?
We read 71 providers' own pages outside the language schools. Four of them say what language they teach in. Not four in ten — four in total.
That is the single most useful thing we found, and it is a gap rather than an answer: it means a foreign family cannot choose an activity from a website, and has to ask every time. What we found, and what to ask sets out the four and the question that gets a straight answer.
What is on this page, and what is not
A provider is here if it publishes, on a page of its own, that it teaches children. That rule did most of the work: every provider on these pages is sourced from its own site, and none from a directory. Belgrade has many more clubs than this — a good number of them run entirely on Instagram, and we could not date or quote those, so they are not here.
We also left out providers whose own site we could not read, rather than quoting a directory's version of them. That is a deliberate cost: the guide is smaller and everything in it is checkable.
Questions families ask
Why are there no prices here?
The same reason there are none in the school guide. A price is only true on the day it is copied, and a wrong price is worse than no price. Every row links to the provider's own page, where the current figure lives.
Why no timetables?
Because they are rebuilt every term, and often within a term when a hall or a pool lane is reallocated. We publish what stays true: who teaches what, to what ages, and where.
How old is this information?
Every page here says the date we read the providers' own pages — 1 September 2026 — and the season it belongs to, 2026/27. The build refuses to publish this section once those go off, so a stale page cannot quietly stay up.
My child's school already runs clubs. How do I check?
The table above lists every school in this guide that publishes what it runs, with a link to the school's own page. Ten of nineteen publish one. If your school is in the other group, ask the office directly — the activity almost certainly exists, it just is not written down anywhere public.