Get your kids involved in a program providing a valuable experience
run by
Academic Professionals Teaching
Life Skills and Mat Skills
What makes Mat Chess Kids the
Better After-School Program for Your Child?
Most afterschool programs settle for non-structured, open ended free time.
Mat Chess Kids is designed with growth and education in mind, developed by a child education professional, Andrew Perkins.
What Does This Look Like?
Education Through…
Academic Tutoring
Daily, dedicated time for student tutoring.
We provide student support with homework and reading for all children.
All help is age and subject appropriate helping students work through what they're currently studying
Chess
All students learn how to play chess – even kindergarteners
Why Chess? Because we've found that playing chess is invaluable for our students in developing mental focus that translates into the classroom, and beyond.
On Wednesdays your child participates in a hotly contested in-house chess tournament. . Even more than that, some of our students have gone on to do well in local chess tournaments, and even participate in the state chess championship
Jiu-Jitsu
Kids love this. Brazilian Jiu Jitsu is both a practical and engaging martial art that focuses on controlling a fully resisting opponent.
But more than a martial art, it's a discipline in which students will be confronted with the frustration of losing, and being physically controller by smaller, but more skilled training partners.
Students who learn to perservere through these challenges and develop greater self control, and calm under stress not just on the mats, but in life.
Focus and Perseverance
With these, students are better equipped to learn today, and grow into who we all want for them to be in the future.
Monitored playground time may "check the box" for your child, But we go beyond that to help build the skill and character that throughout your child's life will empower them to shape their own life.
An Afternoon At Mat Chess’s Afterschool Kids Program
Get your kids involved in a program providing a valuable experience
run by
academic professionals.
Child Drop-off (by SPS School Bus) at 3:50pm.
The Decatur school bus drops children off at our facility at 3:50pm. Once inside, we start with 25 minutes of academic time for studying, tutoring, and chess, during which they can eat a parent provided snack.
Wednesdays, kids are dropped off by the bus at 2:35pm.
Academic Study & Snack Time
Once inside, your child with have a 25 minute block of academic and parent-provided snack time. This time may be spent studying, being tutored as they work through their homework or any reading they have brought with them, or learning how to play chess.
Kids Martial Arts Class
From 4:15-5:15pm your child will participate in the Kids Brazilian Jiu Jitsu class, where they can make friends from all over Seattle who participate. The kid’s martial arts program at Mat Chess shares the same unique advantages of being led by Andrew’s 20+ years of experience in education, which includes over 10 years with the Edmonds School District.
These classes do more than strictly teach Jiu Jitsu, they provide a uniquely excellent environment for your child to learn:
- Confidence
- Respect for others
- Attention to Detail
- Perseverance and Determination
- Teamwork and Leadership
- and more…
What is
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu?
Brazilian Jiu Jitsu?
Jiu Jitsu is a grappling Martial Art that is
focused on controlling a fully resisting
opponent. Students learn to take their
opponents to the ground, control them on
the ground through the use of positioning
and then submit their oppoenents.
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Competition Opportunities
Mat Chess Kids have a long tradition of both competition wins, and life lessons learned from those competitions and their Preparation.
Competition Preparation
Before competition, students go through a six-week training camp to prepare mentally, physically and strategically.
Each student works with our coaches to create a game plan of their own unique “superpowers.”
That is their game plan, and list of techniques they will use from each position they can find themselves in during competition.
Sparring sessions focus on using these “superpower” moves – focusing on using the techniques they are best at. This prepares each student to use those movements in competition – but more importantly, helps them to build confidence in themselves and in their movement.
Competition is a great force for motivation and concentration, testing the technique and the skills that students have been learning in a way that is hard to replicate in the gym. Tournaments can lead to great moments of self discovery and focus thanks to the intense nature of martial arts and Brazilian Jiu Jitsu competition.
Pricing Information
We currently have openings for the program but typically fill up quickly. We collect the first month’s payment as a way to reserve your space.
$259 for
Full Time After School Care
$159 for
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday
Tuition rates are designed to provide parents with the most flexibility possible. We aim to be not only the most valuable program but also the most cost-effective.
Where other programs charge a flat rate that always includes Wednesday coverage – we give you the option of choosing not to pay for what you do not use.
Kids’ Martial Arts Instructors
Head Teacher and Program Manager
Andrew Perkins
BFA of Philosophy from Boston University
Masters in Teaching from Boston University
Spent 9 years in the Edmonds School District teaching:
- History
- English
- Philosophy, in the program which he started at Lynnwood HS
- PE
An additional 15+ years teaching both children and adults since opening Mat Chess for a combined 22+ years of experience teaching, and coaching, kids.
Assistant Teachers
Carson
