How a booking works

Blocks, not drop-ins

Programmes are booked as a block: six weeks, eight weeks, twelve weeks, or a full year agreed in advance. A block is how a programme builds, and it is also how after-school activities work in most schools.

Group minimums

Each programme has a minimum number of children. If a group does not reach its minimum it does not run and nobody is charged. That is stated up front so a school is never chasing families to fill a group.

Chess sets

Teaching materials come with the programme whatever the length of the block. For blocks of twelve weeks or more, the chess sets are included as part of it: boards, pieces, transport, storage and replacing anything that goes missing. Below twelve weeks the school provides sets, hires a set for the block, or buys a classroom kit that stays the school's property. Whichever applies to your school is confirmed in writing in the quotation before anything starts.

Missed sessions

The fee covers the block rather than individual attendance, as with most after-school activities. A session cancelled by us, for any reason, is rescheduled or refunded. That is our problem, not the family's.

No private lessons

Little Chess Explorers teaches groups inside schools and does not take individual pupils privately. The reason is on the why chess page and it is a rule rather than a preference.

Prices

Any figure shown anywhere on this site is indicative. Session length and term length differ from school to school, so the only price that counts is the one in your written quotation.

Anything here that is not clear enough for your Board of Management goes to [email protected] and gets answered in writing.