Frequently Asked Questions
Q1: How many locations do you have?
Ans: Currently we have two locations for our after school classes in San Jose. We plan to start more in the next academic year.
Q2: What do you teach in the Lekha after school classes?
Ans: We teach children to write from their heart. We guide them to use their story telling skills and turn them into well written works of art.
Q3: What is the difference between your school and a tutoring center?
Ans: At Lekha the child is not tutored in their school subjects. The teachers do not teach according to any school syllabus. Lekha School uses its own curriculum, which consists of both time tested methods and methods that have been created by the experienced teachers of the school to guide the children in their writing journey.
Q4: Why should I send my child to Lekha?
Ans: When you send your child to tutoring centers, you are telling your child that they need help because they are weak in language arts or reading comprehension. On the other hand, when you send your child to Lekha, you are telling them to love writing for the joy that it brings them.
Q5: Should I send my child to camps or classes?
Ans: Both camps and classes focus on making children enjoy writing. Very often children are busy with many activities outside school and cannot add one more extra-curricular activity to their schedule. For these kids the camps provide an excellent opportunity. Many of our after-school students started out as day campers. By the same token many of our regular students participate in our camps too.
Q6: Do you assign homework to the child?
Ans: During Camps we do not assign any work to the child but we do for our after-school students. In order to see improvement it is essential that children write for at least 20 minutes three days a week. This helps build their vocabulary and style in sentence structure, and also helps in furthering their imagination.
Q7: Are new students bound to a contract?
Ans: Although we do not ask you to sign a contract when you register your child, we do suggest that you try our classes for at least six months in order to see real improvement.
Q8: Should my child be part of your Academic Communications Path or your Creative Writing Path during the summer?
Ans: Does your child need to improve or hone up his language skills in order to excel in school? If so, then the Academic Communications Path is way to go. The Creative Writing Path is for the imaginative child, the child who loves to tell stories, who loves to make up songs or jingles, who loves to improvise or think about characters acting out a story. It is also for children who have many ideas but get stuck while writing. They may find it hard to start writing or just may not know how to add details. As part of this camp they will learn how to overcome writer's block and also how to write out their thoughts.
Q9: My child already writes stories very well. In what way will your camp help?
Ans: Every child in a given age group is at a different level in both their creative abilities as well as their language abilities. In the Creative Writing Path each child will be guided at their own levels and will improve accordingly.
Q10: My child is very good in English and is placed in a higher grade for language class than her peers. How will you challenge her in the Academic Communications Path?
Ans: We shall conduct an online assessment of all those registered for the Academic Communications Path in the month of May. The teachers will teach the students looking at their individual requirements.
Q11: Who are your instructors? Do they have adequate credentials?
Ans: The instructors for the Academic Communications Path are experienced and certified school teachers. Instructors of our Creative Writing Path are published authors and poets.
Q12: Do you screen your instructors?
Ans: All our instructors are screened and fingerprinted by life scan and at least one instructor who is trained in CPR will be present at each facility at all times. Children will be let out only after a parent or guardian signs them out in an instructor's presence.
Q13: Do you offer scholarships?
Ans: Unfortunately at this time, we are unable to meet requests for scholarships. We do however offer early bird and sibling discounts.
Ans: Currently we have two locations for our after school classes in San Jose. We plan to start more in the next academic year.
Q2: What do you teach in the Lekha after school classes?
Ans: We teach children to write from their heart. We guide them to use their story telling skills and turn them into well written works of art.
Q3: What is the difference between your school and a tutoring center?
Ans: At Lekha the child is not tutored in their school subjects. The teachers do not teach according to any school syllabus. Lekha School uses its own curriculum, which consists of both time tested methods and methods that have been created by the experienced teachers of the school to guide the children in their writing journey.
Q4: Why should I send my child to Lekha?
Ans: When you send your child to tutoring centers, you are telling your child that they need help because they are weak in language arts or reading comprehension. On the other hand, when you send your child to Lekha, you are telling them to love writing for the joy that it brings them.
Q5: Should I send my child to camps or classes?
Ans: Both camps and classes focus on making children enjoy writing. Very often children are busy with many activities outside school and cannot add one more extra-curricular activity to their schedule. For these kids the camps provide an excellent opportunity. Many of our after-school students started out as day campers. By the same token many of our regular students participate in our camps too.
Q6: Do you assign homework to the child?
Ans: During Camps we do not assign any work to the child but we do for our after-school students. In order to see improvement it is essential that children write for at least 20 minutes three days a week. This helps build their vocabulary and style in sentence structure, and also helps in furthering their imagination.
Q7: Are new students bound to a contract?
Ans: Although we do not ask you to sign a contract when you register your child, we do suggest that you try our classes for at least six months in order to see real improvement.
Q8: Should my child be part of your Academic Communications Path or your Creative Writing Path during the summer?
Ans: Does your child need to improve or hone up his language skills in order to excel in school? If so, then the Academic Communications Path is way to go. The Creative Writing Path is for the imaginative child, the child who loves to tell stories, who loves to make up songs or jingles, who loves to improvise or think about characters acting out a story. It is also for children who have many ideas but get stuck while writing. They may find it hard to start writing or just may not know how to add details. As part of this camp they will learn how to overcome writer's block and also how to write out their thoughts.
Q9: My child already writes stories very well. In what way will your camp help?
Ans: Every child in a given age group is at a different level in both their creative abilities as well as their language abilities. In the Creative Writing Path each child will be guided at their own levels and will improve accordingly.
Q10: My child is very good in English and is placed in a higher grade for language class than her peers. How will you challenge her in the Academic Communications Path?
Ans: We shall conduct an online assessment of all those registered for the Academic Communications Path in the month of May. The teachers will teach the students looking at their individual requirements.
Q11: Who are your instructors? Do they have adequate credentials?
Ans: The instructors for the Academic Communications Path are experienced and certified school teachers. Instructors of our Creative Writing Path are published authors and poets.
Q12: Do you screen your instructors?
Ans: All our instructors are screened and fingerprinted by life scan and at least one instructor who is trained in CPR will be present at each facility at all times. Children will be let out only after a parent or guardian signs them out in an instructor's presence.
Q13: Do you offer scholarships?
Ans: Unfortunately at this time, we are unable to meet requests for scholarships. We do however offer early bird and sibling discounts.
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