On average students lose approximately 2.6 months of grade level equivalency in mathematical computation skills during the summer months.

This means that teachers typically spend 4-6 weeks re-teaching material that students have forgotten over the summer.

Summer is an excellent opportunity for you to teach your child how to become a better student by ensuring that all the hard work they have put in during term time isn't wasted by their deserved break. Find out more about our fun summer learning workshops and help your child retain all they’ve learned this year!

10 reasons why summer learning is good for your child:

1. The long months of holiday during summer provide you with the perfect time to engage your children in community service projects, get them involved in any way you can and they'll benefit from the social interaction and challenges of helping with meaningful projects.

2. Gaining experience in real world learning activities where the link between work and achievement is clear gives your child a sense of accomplishment by keeping them sharp and focused and will benefit them when term time starts again.

3. By cultivating career interests you can help your child build a mental picture of what type of work they might like to enter after school. Ideally you could take them in to work with you for a few hours or arrange a short trip to the workplace of a friend or family member whose work is of particular interest.

4. Give your child's academic achievements a boost by enrolling them in a summer learning workshop that teaches them valuable skills while keeping their minds active. These can be fun, engaging workshops where children learn a new language or a practical skill such as cooking.   

5. Children who participate in summer learning programmes often develop a love of learning and are more likely to be able to express their creativity while their problem solving skills are boosted by innovative thinking and increased confidence.

6. Given the opportunity to learn during the summer months children will build memorable experiences by meeting other children from different backgrounds, making new friends and exploring new ideas.

7. Because summer learning courses are taught in a fun and stimulating way, children have more time and less pressure to learn the basics of a subject and can feel a bigger sense of engagement with their topic.

8. All children have passions and hobbies that they enjoy more than anything else whether these are guitar playing, creative writing, cooking or painting. Summer is the perfect time to pursue these passions helping children expand their horizons while having fun.

9. Every parent at some stage has seen the summer stretching endlessly before them and wondered what exactly they were going to do to keep their child occupied. Summer learning workshops can ease the schedule pressure you feel while at the same time keeping your child constructively occupied.

10. The summer months are the best time to try something new, find out what inspires your child to learn and encourage them to take up a subject that gives them new skills.