At Kumon, every child’s journey begins with an initial assessment. This is a great opportunity for you to meet your Instructor, discover where your child is placed in their current learning and ability, and find out more about Kumon study. Have you ever wondered how a Kumon Instructor assesses your child? Here, we take you through what to expect at your Kumon initial assessment, step-by-step.

Every parent wants the best for their child at school; to be happy, to grow, and to be nurtured to achieve their full potential. Naturally, “Will Kumon help my child at school?” is often one of the first questions that many new parents ask.

Dawn Willoughby, the Instructor from the Kumon Henley-on-Thames Study Centre, and Angela Buckley, fellow author and experienced teacher, have recently written and published a handy guide called Back to School After Lockdown: How to prepare your child. They have kindly agreed to share their tops tips with us and hope that their experience and guide will help parents to support their children as they settle back into the classroom.

As a Kumon Instructor, I am sometimes asked why we require repeated practice of basic mental addition without allowing our students to count on their fingers? If they get the right answer using their fingers, why do they need to keep practising 3+2, 8+2, 6+2, mentally?
Why do many of our students, even those who are already dealing with multiplication or fractions at school, often start the Kumon programme on basic addition (plus 1, plus 2, plus 3) before progressing to mixed addition and subtraction, multiplication and division, fractions and higher maths?

The answer is that we are laying the foundations for future success in more advanced maths.

13-year-old Sasha is the first student to complete the entire English programme at the Ealing, Dickens Yard Study Centre.