Bishopstraw College, where my 11-year-old son spent 2.5 spring months – this is a Factory for giving you back educated, smart, listening and hearing children…
There is strict discipline here – lights out at 20.15, mobile phones are provided for 1 hour a day, sweets can be eaten 4 times a week under supervision and in limited quantities. But no one breaks or forces children to change, no violence in any form!!! It’s just that the whole benevolent and strict system is built in such a way that your child himself makes the decision to change and be different. Children compete with their academic success and what school they will go to next, what books they have read, and whose team won school football or rugby.
Achievement is important, but even more important – your child's internal state. You can understand everything from it! I don’t even know what words to find to describe my surprise and admiration. And I realized this only at the very end, when I picked up my child from school and saw him warmly saying goodbye to a huge number of friends with tears in his eyes! But there were moments when he shouted that he would not return to this school again... How he says goodbye to his beloved teachers and then barely holds back his tears in a taxi on the way to the airport! This was a shock for me! You can’t really see anything from the modest school hall, but in fact, life there is full of events, work and love. The school did everything so that in a foreign country, with almost no knowledge of the language, a child would fit in and want to study there. This also happened due to the fact that the school was chosen correctly.
The whole day from morning until bedtime was scheduled with different activities. Apparently the day is balanced both in terms of physics and mental activity, because my child NEVER had a headache there. At our home at school this happened regularly and even led to additional examination. Migraine was diagnosed. For Artem, it begins when he is under severe stress or fatigue. When his first report was sent (2 weeks later), it contained a photo of a child blushing from frequent exposure to the fresh air! The school is in the village.
Every day I called Artem in England and every day I heard in his voice that he felt great there. And by this I meant – no one shouts, does not humiliate, there are no angry teachers, there are no favorite and unloved students, but there are calmly demanding and friendly ones. Children clearly know what can and cannot be done, there are rules for everything that cannot be ignored, and this is what gives that long-awaited inner peace. This means that the child will be completely immersed in the learning process. And therefore the output is the corresponding result.
I constantly asked Artem: how is it? Is it very difficult to study? After all, in addition to English, he had mathematics, geography, history, biology, chemistry and some other subjects that we do not have. Each time he said: “No, everything is easy.” Because when children are interested, they call it “easy.”
Within a couple of weeks, their favorite teachers and lessons appeared – mathematics, chemistry and biology and physics – At each lesson there were laboratory classes, where children performed experiments with their own hands. About sports… this is a separate issue, the school has its own fields, so at any free moment the children ran to play football or volleyball!
The child found himself in the same room with 7 other children from Russia, Japan, China. All of them were aimed at entering the best schools in Britain. Everyone read in the evening and in the morning, rather than staring at their phones and computers. And my child started reading too!
What is the result of these 2.5 months? I personally hoped that he would speak at least a little English. All our attempts to teach at home with many tutors – imitation of vigorous activity and 0 effect. Now the child speaks fluently and can retell the plot of the book. Arriving home, he said that he would like to continue his studies there.
At the age of 12, Artyom entered Strathallan school, where he discovered a talent for mathematics, physics, biology, technological design. At the age of 16, I passed a competitive selection for one of the top schools –Malvern college.
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