Cricket
- Teamwork
- Timing
- Communication
- Leadership
Teamwork, timing and the confidence to take your turn.
- Coordination and physical confidence
- Playing a role inside a team
- Reading a situation and reacting
Programme · Ages 4–18
ChessChess coaching
- Strategy
- Pattern recognition
- Decision making
Patience, pattern recognition and thinking three moves ahead.
What your child develops
Skills that outlast the game.
- Planning several steps ahead
- Staying calm under pressure
- Learning from a loss without giving up
- Concentration that carries into schoolwork
How sessions run
Every session pairs a taught idea with a game where the child actually uses it. Beginners start with how the pieces move and finish their first week playing full games. Returning players work through openings, tactics and endgames at their own pace.
Where chess comes from
Chess grew out of chaturanga, played in India around the sixth century, travelled to Persia as shatranj, and reached Europe through the Islamic world. The rules we use today — the powerful queen, the long-range bishop — settled in Europe in the late fifteenth century. The first official world championship was played in 1886.
Programme structure
What the sessions actually cover.
Children join at the stage that suits them — nobody is held back waiting for a term to start.
-
Fundamentals
How each piece moves, how to castle, how a game is won or drawn. A complete game by the end of the first week.
-
Tactics
Forks, pins and skewers, drilled on the board until the child spots them without being told to look.
-
Strategy
Controlling the centre, developing pieces, thinking about a position rather than the next move alone.
-
Playing and reviewing
Full games against peers, then going back through the moves together to find where the game turned.
Why it matters
Beyond the board.
Chess rewards a habit most children are never taught directly: stopping to check what the other person is trying to do before you commit. It also gives them regular, low-stakes practice at losing — thinking clearly about why, and playing again.
Every child plays
We adapt pace, session length and communication to the child in front of us. Tell us what your child needs when you book and we will plan the session around it — no child is turned away.
What it costs
Straightforward pricing.
Per child
KSh 1,300
per child, per session
One-on-one, or your child in a shared session with others. Either way you pay for your own child only.
Private group of 3+
KSh 2,400
per session, whole group
One family booking the whole slot — siblings, neighbours or a school club. KSh 2,400 total however many children come, from 3 upwards.
Also at the academy
Scrabble
- Vocabulary
- Mental arithmetic
- Pattern recognition
Vocabulary, arithmetic and finding the option nobody saw.
- A visibly wider vocabulary
- Fast mental arithmetic
- Weighing risk against reward