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Chinese New Year, also known as the Spring Festival, marks the beginning of a new Lunar New Year and the end of the coldest season in China. This year, the Spring Festival starts on 31 January (New Year’s Eve) and ends on the 15 February 2022.

At Kumon, we want children to have the ability and confidence to be able to think for themselves, both now, at university and for the rest of their lives. Increasingly in today's world, using their existing knowledge to form and try out hypotheses is a required skill that will also set them in good stead across all academic subjects. From studying with Kumon they will learn to make judgements based on their own logic, and we believe every child, regardless of age or school year, is able to do this with practice. 

To mark the 300th anniversary of Daniel Defoe’s, Robinson Crusoethe, the BBC have listed 100 ‘novels that have shaped our world’ ahead of a forthcoming BBC Two show of the same name.

If we said to you "This swatchscollop tastes absolutely filthsome", would you know what we were talking about?

Not unless you were fluent in Gobblefunk, a language made up by Roald Dahl in The BFG. But the joy of Dahls’ words are that we can piece together the meaning from the sound and feeling they give the reader, which is just one of the many reasons that children have found so much fun in his writing.

There are a number of reasons that reading is beneficial. Developing reading proficiency while young can help your child in so many other ways. Here are just a few skills a child will develop alongside a reading habit.