Kumon Didcot

Wishing all our students, their families and Kumon staff a very Happy Diwali and a Prosperous New Year.
May your year ahead be filled with a lifetime of happiness and success.

.didcot are deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

We should like to extend our condolences to all members of the Royal Family, the people of the UK and the Commonwealth at this sad time.

Today is Mother’s Day; a day to thank our mothers for being wonderful.

In honour of celebrating mothers, we thought we would remind ourselves of some of the best mums in children’s literature, many of which feature in books on our Recommended Reading List.

Let’s start off with Mrs Weasley from Harry Potter; this fearless mum also acted as a surrogate mother to Harry, whilst looking out for her own brood. She knits cosy jumpers and is always ready and raring to lend a hand.

Mrs Darling in Peter Pan embodies the idea of the ‘perfect’ mother. She keeps everything in order, including her children’s minds. Wendy then mimics her as she becomes mother to the lost boys.

Kanga from Winnie-the-Pooh is mother to Roo but takes all the Hundred Acre Wood characters under her wing. She is warm and caring and offers counsel and help to all who need it. As the only female character, her maternal nature shines through the books.

Whilst she may not be Matilda’s biological mother, Miss Honey becomes Matilda’s adoptive mother in Roald Dahl’s children’s classic, and finally gives Matilda the love and support she deserves. She is the only adult to realise Matilda’s incredible abilities and encourages her to reach her potential.

What these mothers have in common is their kind-hearts and unwavering support of their children, and for these reasons we definitely think they are worth remembering.

Happy Mother's Day to all the super mums out there.
To the mums, grandmas, aunts, sisters, the dads that are also mums, the mums with no kids, the work mums & the mums who are no longer with us. 💕💕

You are all absolutely SMASHING it!!

On as we continue to 🙅🏽‍♀️ our focus equally is on much-needed with and girls caught in conflict. Please mobilize your community for to donate to the considerable relief efforts underway https://bit.ly/IWDhelp

A challenged world is an alert world. Individually, we're all responsible for our own thoughts and actions - all day, every day. We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality.

We can all choose to seek out and celebrate women's achievements. Collectively, we can all help create an inclusive world.

Today is Shrove Tuesday, also known as Pancake Day, is a special day celebrated in many countries around the world. On this day many people eat pancakes: thin, flat cakes made in a pan. Pancake Day is always on a Tuesday in February or March.

The most famous pancake race takes place in a town called Olney, in the middle of England. People say that Olney has been celebrating pancake races since 1445. As they run, they have to toss the pancake (throw the pancake in the air and catch it in the pan) several times.

Pancakes are very easy to make. Try this recipe:
Ingredients:
🌟One cup of flour/gluten free flour
🌟One cup of milk/ alternative like almond/soya/coconut
🌟One large egg
🌟Some salt
🌟Some butter or oil
🌟Lemon juice
🌟Some sugar

Instructions:
Fill one cup with flour and put into a bowl. Fill another cup with milk and pour into the bowl. Crack the egg into the bowl and whisk the flour, milk and egg until the mixture is smooth. Put a very small amount of butter or oil in a pan, and when it is hot, put some mixture in the pan and move the pan to make a thin pancake. After one minute hold the pan carefully and throw or toss the pancake in the air to turn it over. Now cook the pancake on the other side.
When the pancake is ready, squeeze some lemon juice and put some sugar on it and eat it immediately. If you don’t like lemon juice, eat them with jam, chocolate sauce, fruit or ice cream. Mmm, delicious!

⭐Welcome back - first class of 2022⭐

Viresh and the Kumon Didcot team are wishing all of our Kumon students, their families and all our online followers a very Happy New Year and a warm welcome back to our first class in 2022. May it be a healthy, happy and safer year ahead.

Remember each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of life is turning that diary into the best story you possibly can. A diary full of the best memories ever written in your life - here's to a new adventure, filled with beams of energy, raindrops of fortune, mountains of confidence to embrace a promising year ahead.


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On behalf of the Kumon Didcot Study Centre instructor Viresh and team, we would like to wish all of our Kumon families a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.

🎄🎅❄️⛄️

The Kumon Didcot team would like to give a warm welcome to all our new families who are joining us today, on their Kumon journey. We look forward to working together to help your child/children grow in positivity, confidence and independence.

Here's a reminder of the golden rules for daily study:

1. Complete your work every day.
2. Do corrections right away.
3. Read the instructions carefully.
4. Read the printed examples.
5. Always write the start and finish times!

Wishing a very happy to everyone celebrating! 💙

Wishing all our students, their families and Kumon staff a very Happy Diwali and a Prosperous New Year.
May your year ahead be filled with a lifetime of happiness and success.

At Kumon, we want children to have the ability and confidence to be able to think for themselves, both now, at university and for the rest of their lives.

Increasingly in today's world, using their existing knowledge to form and try out hypotheses is a required skill that will also set them in good stead across all academic subjects.

From studying with Kumon they will learn to make judgements based on their own logic, and we believe every child, regardless of age or school year, is able to do this with practice.

https://www.kumon.co.uk/blog/kumon-helps-children-learn-how-to-think-for-themselves/

☎️ If you’d like more information, please text Viresh on 07989 402901 or email [email protected]☎️

Happy Halloween to you all, we hope you have a fa-BOO-lous day.

☎️ Appointments are being taken for booking in your childs FREE assessment.
BOOK via text 07989 402901 or email [email protected]☎️

🎃Welcome back to class everyone🎃

We hope that you all had a well rested and fun half term.

We are open till noon today and look forward to welcoming you all back to class this week.

☎️ Book your childs free assessment via texting 07989 402901 or email [email protected]☎️

With the half-term school holidays drawing to a close, we’ve detailed some productive ways you can assist your child with their homework to help you strike the balance between ‘too much support’ and ‘not enough support in your child's winter school term.

☎️ Appointments are being taken for booking in your childs FREE assessment.
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Providing children with opportunities to utilise their maths skills is something that can be incorporated into the normal family routine, whereby they can show you they can work it out by themselves! And, as an added bonus, if they can do it in their heads, their mental maths ability is getting utilised too!

This is really just how the Kumon Maths Programme works; by gently encouraging the child to tell us, "what comes next?" or "what would be twice that amount?", we're really demonstrating how practical maths is all around us.

⭐Free Trial September⭐

Throughout September our OFSTED REGISTERED centre is offering TWO free sessions with our maths and English programmes. This can be taken online, in centre or in combination.

Let Kumon Didcot help transform your childs academic abitity today.

☎️ Appointments are being taken for booking in your childs FREE assessment.
BOOK via text 07989 402901 or email [email protected]☎️

We all know parents love taking snaps of their littles ones on their first day back to school and in a new uniform.

Here's a few social media safety tips to acknowledge, that help keep your photos safe.

Welcome back to school to all our students, staff and parents. We are praying for a safe and successful school year ahead!☘️💙

Good luck to everyone receiving their results today! 👨‍🎓

It has been the toughest year yet during these unprecedented times and you should all be proud! 👏❤️

It's Results Day today.

Wishing everyone the very best of luck, especially to many students and staff who have the joy of picking up "that envelope" in the morning.

Remember that they are just a small step in life and what you do with the results, good or less than hoped for, is entirely up to you.

If you get the grades you want, fantastic. If not, it is not the end of the world as you know it.
Talk to those around you and make a plan. The future can be as bright as you want it to be.



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Here are the answers to our Sunday Funday quiz.

Thank you to all of you who participated.

Sunday Funday Brain Teaser:

Calling all brain teaser fans: This triangle trick is sure to baffle even the most astute of brains for at least a few minutes.

How many triangles can you see?

Could this year be the one when England's 🇬🇧 55 year old curse will be broken?! Will Gareth and the boys make history tomorrow? Not long now before tomorrow's big match against Italy 🇮🇹 All eyes to the final showdown.

Go England!

The skills and mindset of all of the football players reflected our students at Kumon study habits:

🔸️ CONFIDENCE (Positive CAN DO attitude)
🔸️RESILIENCE (Never giving up no matter how tough it gets)
🔸️PROBLEM SOLVING (Through strategic thinking)
🔸️MASTERY (Achieved through dedicated practice/repeating skill sets which builds confidence)
🔸️DISCIPLINE (Keeping focussed on the goal!)
🔸️RESISTING DISTRACTION
🔸️TRANSFERRABLE SKILLS

Key message to take away:

Daily study/practice of key skills develops confidence, independance, resilience & mastery of the focus subject(s) which leads to the development of a positive, confident well-rounded self-learner.

Enjoy the final on Sunday 8pm!😁⚽️

Kumon was started by a father who wanted to help his son. Thank you to all the Kumon Dads & Mums following in Toru Kumon's footsteps! Happy Father's Day!

As a child there is one book thats a childhood classic about dads, which is Roald Dahls, Danny Champion of the World:

Danny has a life any boy would love—his home is a gypsy caravan, he's the youngest master car mechanic around, and his best friend is his dad, who never runs out of wonderful stories to tell. But one night Danny discovers a shocking secret that his father has kept hidden for years. Soon Danny finds himself the mastermind behind the most incredible plot ever attempted against nasty Victor Hazell, a wealthy landowner with a bad attitude. Can they pull it off? If so, Danny will truly be the champion of the world.

What's your favourite book about dads?

Whilst being fun and social, extracurricular activities are also important in helping develop a child's talents, interests, and passions. One particularly enriching activity is learning to play a musical instrument. There has long been a correlation between musical training and academic success.

It's widely agreed by experts that consistent music education helps children to develop a wide spectrum of skills and can improve a child's memory, as well as other skills ranging from literacy to mathematics. What do you think?

Read more on our blog here

https://www.kumon.co.uk/blog/seven-ways-studying-music-benefits-children/

‘I have a passion for teaching kids to become readers, to become comfortable with a book, not daunted. Books should be funny, exciting and wonderful; and learning to be a reader gives a terrific advantage.’ Roald Dahl

Let Kumon Didcot help transform your childs academic abitity today.

☎️ If you’d like more information, please text Viresh on 07989 402901 or email [email protected]☎️

One of the recognisable traits of a Kumon maths student is their ability to do calculations in their heads.

We're often asked why we require the deep 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? Our article, explains why.

www.kumon.co.uk/blog/number-bonds-the-foundations-for-future-success-in-maths/

Let Kumon Didcot help transform your childs academic abitity today.

☎️ If you’d like more information, please text Viresh on 07989 402901 or email [email protected]☎️

What are your plans for the weekend?
It’s .

If you’ve ever dreamt of going on a picnic with the Famous Five, having tea up the Faraway Tree or sharing a midnight feast with the girls of Malory Towers, you’ll love this fabulous collection of recipes.

Allegra McEvedy, judge of CBBC’s Junior Bake Off, has created enticing recipes for every time of day, inspired by the delicious descriptions of food in the classic books of Enid Blyton.

Why not give it a try and plan a picnic in the beautiful sunshine.

Order your copy: https://amzn.to/3tPdJwu

‘Truly scrumptious’

TUESDAY ⭐WELCOME BACK!⭐

The .didcot team are looking forward to welcoming all our Tuesday Kumon students and their families back to class today.

Here's a parent testimonial covering how the Kumon method helped their child during the .

Throughout the UK, the effects of the Covid-19 (pandemic) are being felt across our community. At Kumon Didcot, we are determined to continue offering our regular maths and English support with online sessions and calls during these challenging times, especially with schools being closed.
We are now offering FREE REGISTRATION for all new students, siblings and families.

Call us ☎️ on 07989402901 or email [email protected]☎️ to find out more about Kumon and arrange a free personalised assessment for your child/children.

⭐WELCOME BACK!⭐

The .didcot team are looking forward to welcoming all our Monday Kumon students and their families back to class today.

Well done for all of your hard work throughout lockdown and we look forward to seeing you later today.
We are so proud of you all