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Fun and motivating course, highly recommendable

I found this camp a wonderful experience for our 12 yo this summer. Even though we were on vacation he would wake up very early every morning, so full of excitement and impatient he was to get to the workshop. In the evening he would non-stop talk about all the details of the things he had been d...

I found this camp a wonderful experience for our 12 yo this summer. Even though we were on vacation he would wake up very early every morning, so full of excitement and impatient he was to get to the workshop. In the evening he would non-stop talk about all the details of the things he had been doing and robot programming tricks. The teachers were charming and I could see how well they connected with the kids. I think this experience will be the start of a lasting interest in technology for our son. I strongly recommend the course. We will definitely plan to enroll in some other FunTech adventure!

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Robotics Nxt Camp

My son really enjoyed his week at the camp and is already looking forward to joining more such camps in the future.
It would have been better if the robot they made was given to them to take home.

Fantastic fun for Lego fans

My two 12 year olds attended the St Albans camp and have had a fantastic time. It takes Lego to another level beyond the model building you normally do at home. Along the way they have been learning some basic programming as well as using motors and sensors to complete challenges and beat the maz...

My two 12 year olds attended the St Albans camp and have had a fantastic time. It takes Lego to another level beyond the model building you normally do at home. Along the way they have been learning some basic programming as well as using motors and sensors to complete challenges and beat the maze. The staff have been amazing, teaching but in a really fun way. Both have asked me if they can come again, and that says it all!

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A fun week of coding and construction

My boys really enjoyed the week, the team make it highly interactive, keeping a great mix between the learning and the fun. The tutors made it great fun and were really happy to let the boys explore what they were interested in.

Lot of Fun

My 11 year old son really enjoyed the course. He was very enthusiastic to attend each day, making sure we arrived on time! He has learnt some coding skills and I hope he will take this further. Despite the school setting there has been no complaint of this being a "summer school", however I sti...

My 11 year old son really enjoyed the course. He was very enthusiastic to attend each day, making sure we arrived on time! He has learnt some coding skills and I hope he will take this further.
Despite the school setting there has been no complaint of this being a "summer school", however I still feel there has been educational value.
Only disappointment has been that we are told we cannot take the robots home with us at the end of the course. I suspect there will be further spending on equipment in the future.
Overall a worthwhile investment and a different experience from the traditional holiday camps.

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"Can do" Inclusiveness

My daughter has a physical disability and it is often a challenge to find mainstream commercial activities she can participate in. The Funtech team, and especially Shen, made every effort to enable my daughter to join the Funtech summer weekday course and the residential course, and I have every ...

My daughter has a physical disability and it is often a challenge to find mainstream commercial activities she can participate in. The Funtech team, and especially Shen, made every effort to enable my daughter to join the Funtech summer weekday course and the residential course, and I have every hope, with such thorough and thoughtful provision made, that it will be a rewarding and successful experience for her. Watch this space for a review of my daughter's experience on her completion of the courses...

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Excellent Mentoring, teaching & development

My son Shivam has been at Funtech for few years now. I am so pleased with the teaching, mentoring and support he's received in all the years here. Each of the teachers' he's had including the head, has taken so much interest in his development as a student and as a person. He received individua...

My son Shivam has been at Funtech for few years now. I am so pleased with the teaching, mentoring and support he's received in all the years here.
Each of the teachers' he's had including the head, has taken so much interest in his development as a student and as a person.
He received individual attention whenenver he's needed it.
I would recommend the school to everyone who's kids are interested in computers. It's an excellent school and every person who works here takes full interest in your kid's overall development.

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Minecraft Redstone residential course

I highly recommend Funtech. They bent over backwards to help me find a course which my 12 year old dyslexic son would enjoy. And enjoy it he did..! He went off on the residential course, not knowing any other children on it and loved every minute - the computer work, all the extra activities, the...

I highly recommend Funtech. They bent over backwards to help me find a course which my 12 year old dyslexic son would enjoy. And enjoy it he did..! He went off on the residential course, not knowing any other children on it and loved every minute - the computer work, all the extra activities, the new friends and the great tutors. Thank you.

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Highly recommendable!!!

We took our two kids to do just one course during summer, and we end up doing two courses!. They have had a wonderful time; everything was perfectly organized up to the detail; staff made everything easy; teachers where excellent connecting with kids, my kids made nice progress in computing, they...

We took our two kids to do just one course during summer, and we end up doing two courses!. They have had a wonderful time; everything was perfectly organized up to the detail; staff made everything easy; teachers where excellent connecting with kids, my kids made nice progress in computing, they made friends,... Now they dream to do another course next year!. Highly recommendable!!!

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Review from a parent

Funtech has been nothing short of transformational and life changing for my son. Through Funtech he got two A stars at A level in Computer Science and Mathematics and is now off to study Computing and Maths at Bristol University. What was particularly remarkable is Funtech discovered his aptitude...

Funtech has been nothing short of transformational and life changing for my son. Through Funtech he got two A stars at A level in Computer Science and Mathematics and is now off to study Computing and Maths at Bristol University. What was particularly remarkable is Funtech discovered his aptitude for Maths. Originally he was just doing Computer Science and they encouraged him to start Maths, a subject his school never suggested for A level. Funtech do more than teach very well. They are genuinely passionate about their students and do everything humanly possible to inspire, interest and motivate their students. I cannot recommend them highly enough.

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Fantastic Organisation

We are so pleased to have found FunTech for our 12 year old son who has wanted to learn computer programming and game design for a long time. FunTech staff really understand what children want to learn and how to teach them in a way that inspires them. Our son loves his weekly C# programming with...

We are so pleased to have found FunTech for our 12 year old son who has wanted to learn computer programming and game design for a long time. FunTech staff really understand what children want to learn and how to teach them in a way that inspires them. Our son loves his weekly C# programming with Jaz, and his summer camp in Maidenhead was the highlight of his summer. We have been well advised on which courses to take and feel our son is now en-route towards the career in IT that he aspires to.

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Great Week!

Our son, William, spent a wonderful week at FunTech. There was not a bad moment throughout the entire time. He was actively engaged from start to finish. He was appropriately challenged, as well. His teachers were patient and always age appropriate. William had a fantastic time at your w...

Our son, William, spent a wonderful week at FunTech. There was not a bad moment throughout the entire time. He was actively engaged from start to finish. He was appropriately challenged, as well. His teachers were patient and always age appropriate.

William had a fantastic time at your wonderful camp. He met some fun friends and learned some awesome skills. You do a great job teaching your information to a difficult age group and I applaud you!

I look forward to enrolling him in more classes during the school term.

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Highly Recommended

My son Mark has thoroughly enjoyed going to Funtech. He has achieved A Level Computing 2 years early. The staff's dynamic approach to teaching motivates pupils to achieve their full potential. I can highly recommend this organisation to others.

Wow, my son achieved an ‘A’ level in Computing, A grade, before his GCSEs

Wow, my son Mike, aka Pip for reasons of his FunTech related success, studied ‘A’ level computing at the age of 13 & completed with an A grade at the age of 15! FunTech have inspired him toward what I know, as an IT professional myself, to be the best career in the world. FunTech repeatedly...

Wow, my son Mike, aka Pip for reasons of his FunTech related success, studied ‘A’ level computing at the age of 13 & completed with an A grade at the age of 15!

FunTech have inspired him toward what I know, as an IT professional myself, to be the best career in the world.

FunTech repeatedly go the extra mile. When it came to work experience time, FunTech even provided the connection which resulted in Mike attaining a placement at Microsoft.

But how did we get here?

When Mike was in year 8, age 12½ his mum saw a FunTech advert, essentially to teach children to have fun learning how to write computer games. I know myself how fun that can be, so we asked him & took our enthusiastic young man along for an assessment.

From the outset I was quite impressed that they were assessing the children, rather than just taking the money regardless of suitability.

After the assessment they wanted to talk to us, his parents & recommended he didn’t do the write a computer game course, as they felt he was too advanced for it, but recommended another course, more suitable for his abilities.

They saw potential in him that the 11+ had not.

I looked at the skill-set which they were recommending he learned & realised that I wished more of the CV’s I was seeing for people wishing to work for me professionally had those skills & when they did they were the ones I tended to call for interview.

I love programming & the opportunity to give my son that pleasure, especially given his enthusiasm for the idea was something I wasn’t going to miss.

He did the course, although he was the youngest by far more than a year. He was a great success & one thing led to another & a dilemma presented itself. His great FunTech driven success led him to the opportunity to take an ‘A’ level in Computing, to be completed before his year group had even sat their GCSE's!

FunTech had always been very clear that school work had to come first, but then the technology that FunTech teach really is fun. Indeed, school homework can sometimes be boring, but the stuff FunTech do can be light relief. I do say this as someone who himself loves programming.

My concern was that while Mike, as a result of FunTech’s input, was now academically capable of meeting the ‘A’ level challenge, he was still a youngster & was he mature enough to keep this in balance with the rigours of school-work?

Mike was keen, but I went in to speak to FunTech about my concern. Their response was professional, balanced & wise. In the end I decided that the risk of holding Mike back by not engaging FunTech here, given his enthusiasm, well – he had to be supported in his decision to do it. With hindsight I’m so glad that’s the decision I came to.

It’s interesting, when applying for 6th forms, I raised the question when everyone else was talking about predicted & hoped for GCSE grades & whether their child could achieve a 6th form place, I asked the question as to the impact of Mikes early A grade ‘A’ level in Computing, given that we were being told by RGS for one that the key is GCSE results, GCSE results & GCSE results.

The response was physical, the tutor in question physically stepped forward, shook hands & stated “well that IS very encouraging”.

The world is Mike’s oyster, due to in no small part, the footing & inspiration granted to him by FunTech.

He is currently deciding which 6th form to give his support to.

In his free time Mike has written a tool his dad, that’s me, has used professionally.

Watch this space.

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FunTech

We are so glad we discovered FunTech !! Frazer and Flora have achieved great GCSE results in a highly supportive environment. Funtech not only provides excellent teaching and results but the team really care about your child and meeting the individual needs of your child. As a parent I really ap...

We are so glad we discovered FunTech !!
Frazer and Flora have achieved great GCSE results in a highly supportive environment. Funtech not only provides excellent teaching and results but the team really care about your child and meeting the individual needs of your child. As a parent I really appreciate the support, guidance and ongoing encouragement my children receive - thank-you Funtech !!

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One very happy parent

I can not begin to express how highly I rate FunTech. My three children have been involved with FunTech since they were 5 years old and with 2 GCSE A stars already in the bag they are now attending a range of classes from Computer Programming to GCSE maths to preparation for Common Entrance. ...

I can not begin to express how highly I rate FunTech.

My three children have been involved with FunTech since they were 5 years old and with 2 GCSE A stars already in the bag they are now attending a range of classes from Computer Programming to GCSE maths to preparation for Common Entrance.

Not only is the teaching first rate but my children really enjoy the lessons and as a parent I know the team will always goes the "extra mile".

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Great head start

A great opportunity. Our son achieved A* A level in Computing, a year early. It gave him tremendous confidence and study skills to achieve as well in his other subjects, at school. It also looked so good on his cv, that he got offers from every university on his UCAS application. Our daughter ach...

A great opportunity. Our son achieved A* A level in Computing, a year early. It gave him tremendous confidence and study skills to achieve as well in his other subjects, at school. It also looked so good on his cv, that he got offers from every university on his UCAS application. Our daughter achieved A* at GCSE ICT - 2 years early, which gave her fantastic confidence and prepared her really well to for the challenges of her other GCSEs.

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Touch typing made fun

FunTech has inspired my 10 year old son to start learning to touch type, stick with it and become pretty competent at it within a few months. They've been great at pushing, encouraging and rewarding him and making learning a new skill good fun.

Super organisation

Michael had a great time! FunTech are very professional, organised with friendly tutors who know exactly what they are doing. He doubled his typing speed and you can't say more than that.