In the summer of 2024, my two sons, Yoshinori, age 8, and Yoshinobu, age 6, travelled to England for the second time and attended Bede's Camp. At school all the time, with accommodation, for 2 weeks.
The first time they came to England was in 2023 and went to Skola school in London from 9am to 4pm. It was a trial of the pen 😊
The kids started learning English from the age of 2 and went to an English nursery. My husband and I believe that children should operate internationally. You can't just rely on one country. Japan has a shrinking population and frequent natural disasters - it is dangerous to build a life and business there alone, the risks are too high. So you have to, as they call it, ‘keep your eggs in different baskets’ and have alternatives for life.
My kids have never left home for more than 2 days before. This time, they went to a summer camp in boarding, with full on-site accommodation for 2 weeks. I was ready for anything.
The kids were bored, but still, they didn't ask to be picked up, and on the third day when they talked to me, they actually said, ‘Can we end the call already?’ Because they were playing football! 😁
I told the teachers that unnecessarily, they may not have the kids call me. And for the next three days I had no calls 😊 Which I think is a very good sign. And still to this day, even though it's been 3 months, the kids talk, reminisce about what they did at Bede's school, that the eldest was the best communicator, the youngest learnt to do something too.
They are proud that they only cried a couple of times 😄 And I have very homely boys who were not particularly eager to go to camp. This trip was a healthy stressor for them that toughened them up.
I think it went super well. Next summer we are going to England again to a similar camp where the kids will live in a boarding house. I will accompany them, stay in London and we will each have our own programme 🙂
The plan is to have secondary education for my sons in the UK in a few years time.
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