Hey, ST MIKE'S, how do you feel?!?!
Are you looking for an after-school chess program that offers an amazing combination of chess lessons, laughter, and fun chess tournaments for kids? Welcome to The Knight School!
In this kid-centered classroom environment, we teach our kids every cool trick, strategy, opening, and tactic in chessdom, and our kids soon learn to love and master chess and to masterfully control their classrooms, sports fields, and home lives as well!
The Knight School Chess Team is your school's official chess team and chess party for the upcoming school year! The Knight School's approach has had amazing success—winning multiple state championships—because our unique and unprecedented educational philosophy, “the chess party,” is the perfect way to transform a complete beginner into a devastating chess machine.
Literally every one of our chess classes opens with this question: “Welcome to the Knight School: How do you feel?” The kids respond in a roar with our school battle cry: “GREAT COACH!” A chess school with a deafening battle cry every single chess class? Yep. Welcome to The Knight School.
Our chess kids academy is absolutely unique in that it actually prioritizes learning chess third, after good sportsmanship, which is paramount, and fun, which is indispensable! But don’t worry, this counterintuitive philosophy actually provides the very best approach to genuinely becoming devastating at chess. True mastery of the chess board, like dance, soccer, and everything else, can take years and years of applied practice. Our safe and intensely exciting classroom environments are the perfect atmosphere to motivate kids to stay in chess long enough to get better and better at chess over time, and to ultimately become practically unbeatable. What we mean by that is that at a long weekend of state championship play our veterans can lose some chess games, but at a weekend slumber party or an adult soiree when they are challenged by a swaggering, overconfident adult, their attack is lightning-fast, hilariously destructive of their opponent, and literally in many instances breathtaking. This is what we want for our kids, and this is what many, many of them achieve.
Our sample chess "party" at St Mike's will be held on Wednesday, May 20th, right after school.
Students will be dismissed from their classrooms to the cafeteria at 3:15pm, where we will have 75 minutes of a typical, zany chess class, done
The Knight School way.
At precisely 4:30pm, students will be picked up at the side door of the middle school, near the Assumption preK entrance by their parents,
and will be smiling ear to ear!
Please contact The Knight School Lehigh Valley if you have any questions.