Holiday lessons help kids keep their brains in shape
YOUNGSTERS have been exercising their grey matter at a Easter holiday club.
Tutors have been giving free maths and English sessions at Rochdale Exchange shopping centre.
Classes, run by Oldham-based Explore Learning, have included handwriting, grammar, punctuation, creative writing and exam preparation.
Explore Learning assistant director Lizzie Whittle said: “Here at Explore Learning, we believe the brain is a muscle, the more you exercise it, the stronger it gets, so we love visiting local communities to run our free educational workshops out of school time.
“The first session at Rochdale Exchange was great, with lots of children of all ages coming along to take part.
“In particular, youngsters enjoyed our creative writing session as it was all about the National Young Writers’ Award, where children were invited to tell us a story, in 500 or less, about one of their heroes.”
Explore Learning will return to the shopping centre on April 28 and May 12.
Lorenzo O’Reilly, Rochdale Exchange Shopping Centre manager, said: “The tuition centre is of real value to families not only in Oldham, but across Rochdale too and we’re thrilled that they have been able to deliver such brilliant maths and English workshops at the centre.
“The team at Explore Learning do a brilliant job getting children as young as five on the journey to success with tutoring in phonetics, grammer and much more as well as extra help with preparing for exams for older children.
“We were thrilled to see so many children enjoying the free interactive sessions last week and we look forward to welcoming Explore Learning back to Rochdale Exchange in a few weeks time.”