Chess in Schools
With chess providing the extraordinary educational benefits that it does (visit our Why Chess? page to read more), we at ECA want to provide an opportunity for schools to include chess in their curriculum or on their list of extra curricular activities that are available to their pupils. Chess can be incorporated in your school in these three ways:
Chess Club
For our chess clubs, a trained tutor will be present at the school to teach a maximum of 12 children. If the demand for chess is larger, we can provide additional tutors to increase the size of the club. Chess clubs can be run as either a lunch time or after school activity. If you are interested in this option, please contact us.
Subject
If you believe in the benefits of chess, we are also able to run classes during the school day. Chess classes incorporated into the curriculum have already been adopted in many countries including the Netherlands, Spain, Armenia and England. Chess classes run during school hours would consist of an ECA tutor and an assistant taking a class for a designated period of time – the duration of the lessons would be school dependent. If your school would like to incorporate chess into its curriculum, please contact us.
Virtual Tutor
A chess tutor can dial in to a classroom using video conferencing (Zoom/Teams etc) to run the club/subject virtually. With a teacher/parent assisting in the classroom, children receive a lecture and then one to one tuition with our tutor whilst the teacher supervises the rest of the class. This is an excellent and cheap way of getting a Chess Club started in your school. Furthermore, it can be done anywhere! We have done this in a number of schools during the pandemic and it works really well.
Current Work in Schools
Below is a list of schools we work in every week. Currently, we reach around 600 children every week.
Past Work in Schools
Due to the pandemic we are slowly rebuilding our school clubs. Other schools we taught in before C19.