Welcome to the Christmas Brain Camp in Kingston

The Christmas Brain Camp is a designed to develop children's intellectual and social skills by playing a variety of strategy games such as chess as well as mathematical games.  The four day Brain Camp provides a supervised rich learning environment where the children have a lot of fun whilst learning different ways to think and solve problems.  It is not necessary to be able to play chess to attend the camp and there will be the opportunity to learn some chess basics as well as other games. Note that none of the games involve dice or chance. The children who attended our summer camp said that they really enjoyed the experience and never got bored.  The course instructors are very experienced at teaching games relevant to education.

The event will take place at :
Holy Cross Preparatory School
George Road
Kingston Upon Thames
Surrey
KT2 7NU

The chess camp is open to boys and girls ages 7-11.

Times: Monday to Thursday 09:00 until 16:00 each day. 

Lunch: 12:00 - 13:00
Each child should bring a packed lunch.

Programme:

• Lessons
• Competitions
• Simultaneous display
• Chess
• Minigames
• Strategy games
• Nim
• Puzzles
• Chess and mathematics
• Logic

Price:           £220 per child      (siblings: 10% discount - use Promo code CAMP10)

Early Bird:   £200 per child     (siblings: 10% discount - use Promo code CAMP10)

Day only:     £60 per day         (siblings: 10% discount - use Promo code CAMP10)

There is a maximum number of children so prompt booking is advised.

If the minimum number of children is not reached, then the event may be cancelled and any payments made will be returned.

The ticket sales close on 15th December 2023 at 5pm.
Early Bird ticket available until 26th November in limited numbers.

For more information, please contact Leila on info@chessplus.net

Tutors:

John Foley
John Foley will lead the camp. John is a qualified European Chess Union School Chess Teacher and FIDE Instructor and is an accredited coach with the English Chess Federation. He is a Councillor with the European Chess Union Education Commission where he gives chess teacher training courses across Europe. He is the President of Kingston Chess Club and Director of ChessPlus Limited a games education company. He was London Junior Chess Champion and Oxford University Chess Champion. He teaches chess at Holy Cross Prep and privately.  John has run several chess camps in England and Europe. John has recent published a book for beginners: "Checkmate!: the Wonderful World of Chess" which is recommended reading. 

John Upham
Dr John Upham is a qualified European Chess Union School Chess Teacher and is an accredited coach with the English Chess Federation. He teaches at several schools  and also privately.   John started chess at the age of twelve following the huge interest in the Spassky-Fischer World Championship match in 1972.  John is Secretary of the Hampshire Junior Chess Association and the Berkshire Chess Association and manages the Chess for Schools partnership. He is editor of British Chess News.