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Discover how the Kumon one-week Free Trial could work for your family. Find out how the Kumon Maths and English Programmes are designed to help any child, of any ability realise their potential and become an enthusiastic learner.

If we said to you "This swatchscollop tastes absolutely filthsome", would you know what we were talking about?

Not unless you were fluent in Gobblefunk, a language made up by Roald Dahl in The BFG. But the joy of Dahls’ words is that we can piece together the meaning from the sound and feel they give the reader, which is just one of the many reasons that children have found so much fun in his writing.

The number of parents electing to permanently educate their children at home is on the rise. If you’re trying to decide whether home educating is the right option for you and your family, you’ll want to weigh up the pros and cons. Here are some benefits and considerations we’ve identified.

Introduced during the pandemic, many Kumon centres now offer options for online study, enabling even the busiest of families to benefit from Kumon with the choice of online classes via Zoom from home, or in-person classes with their Instructor at the Kumon centre.

Many parents considering enrolling their child in Kumon have the same question: “I don’t want to overload my young child, but equally I want to give them the best possible head start…So what’s the best age to begin Kumon?”

At Kumon, we believe that, essentially, the sooner children can begin, the better. Here we discuss the reasons we believe an early start is important.