Recipe: Cornish Pasty by Paul Hollywood

We go on holiday in order for our brains to relax and recoup our energy. That’s a good thing, but have you noticed how children relax so much over the school holidays to the extent they are ‘BORED!!!’? They get so relaxed and chilled out by the end of the long summer holidays that they will roll about on the sofa and watch endless TV or play on the computer. Their brains seem to require mindless repetitive low levels of stimulation and they are eternally hungry! If this seems familiar then your child is demonstrating a proven fact from educational psychologists who say that with a long holiday the children’s brains relax and some of the learning falls away. When they go back to school in September it takes a few weeks to get back up to speed and return to the same level of attainment that they had at the end of the previous school year.

Kip has the answer to this!

We offer a summer school during the last two weeks of the school holidays where your child can experience a whole new fun way of learning. We use a range of paper based and computer games which challenge and teach English and Maths, so that by the time your child starts school again they will have recouped the learning they had in July and in most cases have improved upon it as well. In a relaxed atmosphere, they can learn at their own rate because the Kip programme is designed to fit your child’s needs. The unseen but crucial effect of these summer school experiences is the increased self confidence that children gain from suddenly seeing that they are no longer haunted by fractions, are not dreading decimals or struggling with spelling. Last year James brought his friend Oscar along to the summer school and they both went back to school in a stronger position than when they left the previous July. Now James and Oscar come regularly and are really flying at school. Even their teachers are recommending Kip to other parents now!!

Give your child a good ending to the long summer holidays and enrol them into the summer school for the last two weeks and see for yourself what Kip can achieve with your child. We do a free assessment on each child in order to design the correct learning experience for them, so book your place and assessment slot by calling Jo at Kip McGrath Matlock on 01629 56611.