I am told by head office that it is normal to start a new Kip McGrath centre with perhaps 1 or 2 children, so I was delighted to break the record and open with 15 aged between 5 and 15! After my first official week I can confirm that this business does provide all of the variety, challenges, laughs and rewards promised. More...

Nearly 3 months to the day after I completed my Kip McGrath training, and after an agonizingly long wait for my new premises to become available, I finally opened my doors this past Monday, and here I am blogging after surviving my first week!

And what a week! With very little marketing prior to opening (apart from networking everywhere possible!), in no time I had 16 sets of parents queuing up to have their children assessed! Naïve me, I assumed that the majority would take up the offer of a free assessment and walk away. But no, 100% of the parents enrolled their children, in some cases more than one child! More...