Four Ways Residential Summer School Help Your Child Grow

Education is a hugely important part of your child’s progression towards adulthood. Learning about the world around them, their shared human histories, and the ways in which they’ll be able to maximize their potential constitutes the ideal preparation for a successful life. So it’s little surprise that those children that attend summer school are given an extra boost in their prospects. Learning, as they go, extra skills that prepare them for college, university or their vocational career. Below are listed the four main benefits your child will enjoy when attending residential summer schools.

• Extra-Curricular Knowledge

Summer schools don’t just focus on those subjects that your child studies at school. They tend to branch out into exciting specialisms, and other areas of knowledge and expertise that aren’t covered in school curricula. Your child might enjoy learning about:

• Ancient history and civilizations
• World literature, poetry, and art
• Film, music and performing arts
• Languages and world culture
• Cooking, textiles and DIY skills

That’s not to mention the fact that many summers schools embody the Socratic teaching method: they teach your child not what to think, but how to think. This will serve your child’s independent thinking excellently.

• New Places, New Faces

Another huge benefit of residential summer schools is the exposure your child will have to a whole new set of people, and a new location that might be far removed from their home town and their local school. You might, for instance, find an amazing UK summer school at countryschools.co.uk that invites students from dozens of different countries to participate. Even if you opt to keep your child in the US, their exposure to a different city or state will help them develop new perspectives, and make new friends, in a way that they just wouldn’t be able to do without residential summer schooling.

• Independent Living

For many children, the first time that they live apart from their parents comes when they graduate from high school and begin attending university or college. They might be terribly homesick, or lack a certain level of independence that means they struggle in their first few months away from home. Summer schools help facilitate a deeper level of independence and responsibility in your children at an earlier age. They’re left to fend for themselves, to an extent, in a new environment with no parental oversight, which means they’ll learn valuable new social and emotional skills that will serve them well in later life.

• Fitness and Wellbeing

With very few exceptions, residential summer schools factor in a great deal of outdoor exploration, sporting activity and wellbeing pursuits to keep children engaged and excited as the summer weeks rolls by. Eating a wholesome diet, and playing outside for an appropriate amount of time each day, your child will return in good health and, perhaps, with a new set of sporting hobbies and favorite activities to introduce to their friends at school when term begins once more.

Sending your child to a residential summer school will help them augment their educational life with exciting new perspectives – a sure way to help them achieve their potential as they grow older.

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Brandy is the wife to a carpenter/musician and the mother of 3 amazingly awesome homeschool/unschooled girls. Brandy is a Photographer as well as a Coach for the Weebellion as part of Rolling Rebellion Jr. Roller Derby. Brandy is passionate about many things and suffers from a very painful and degenerative neurological disease called CRPS/RSD.

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