Will this help my child's BGCSE results?
We are not going to claim that, because we cannot demonstrate it and nothing here is on the syllabus. What tends to transfer is the habit of asking what a number is compared to and of breaking an open-ended task into checkable steps, which several parents have reported showing up in school work. That is a real effect and it is not a marks guarantee, and we would rather state both halves.
Should my child in Grade 9 be doing this at all?
Reduced, or paused. The BJC is at the end of that year and a national examination outranks a voluntary programme, so our advice is one session a week on a narrow target at most. A great many families choose to stop for the year, and we hold the progress record so that resuming afterwards starts from where they actually were.
What about Grade 12?
Pause, in almost every case. If a student genuinely wants to continue, one session a week with the project frozen rather than extended, and nothing more. Advising a pause costs us the month and it is still the right advice: a student trying to do BGCSE year and a twelve-month build programme properly usually does neither well.
How much does it cost?
A group batch of five to eight students is USD 100 a month and one to one teaching is USD 150 a month, billed in US dollars, the same flat figures everywhere outside India. There is no enrolment fee and no minimum term, so pausing for an examination year costs you nothing beyond the month you are in.
Do you teach to the BJC or BGCSE computer syllabus?
No. We do not follow either specification and we would be guessing if we tried. For preparation against a specific Bahamian paper, your child's school and a tutor who works to that specification every day are the right people, and we will say so rather than take the work.
Which grades are actually the best time to start?
Grades 7 and 8, clearly. They carry no national certificate at the end, they have the most room in the whole system, and a student who completes the twelve months there arrives at the BJC year with a portfolio already begun and can afford to set it down. Grades 10 and 11 are the second-best window and the best one for building something publishable.
Is the certificate you award worth anything?
It is ours, and it is honest about that. No Bahamian school or university treats it as a credential and we would not want them to. The thing with genuine external value is the portfolio: a repository with a year of dated commits, a stated error figure and an explicit limitation, which a reader can open and assess directly.
My child is in Grade 12 and wants to apply abroad. Is it too late to start?
For a twelve-month track, effectively yes, and we would rather say so. What can be worth doing in that position is a short one to one block aimed at making existing work presentable: adding the baseline, the error figure and the limitation paragraph to something already built. That is a few sessions rather than a year and it often doubles what the existing work is worth to a reader.
Can this replace a school computing subject?
No, and it is not trying to. It runs alongside school, awards nothing recognised, and covers things a school syllabus mostly does not: real data, measured models, version control and publishing. Where a school offers a computing subject, taking both is the strongest combination, and where the timetable will not allow it the school subject wins.
What happens after we send the form?
A mentor telephones you at a Bahamian hour to arrange the free session. Nothing is charged and no card is requested. Tell us the grade your child is in on that call, because for Grade 9 and Grade 12 the honest recommendation is frequently to wait, and it is better to hear that at the start than after a term.
