Meet the Instructor

The Kumon Sandown Instructor: Harry Vernon

Hello and welcome to the Sandown Kumon Centre website. My name is Harry Vernon and I have been running the Sandown Kumon Study Centre since 2007. I have also been running the Cowes Kumon study centre since 2009.
I am a qualified maths teacher and before running the Kumon study centres I taught for over ten years. I taught English in Portsmouth, Thailand and South Korea. On the island I taught maths at Sandown High School for six years and taught adults English and maths for two years.

In my classes as a schoolteacher I endeavoured to provide differentiated work to as many children as possible. This was compromised by the resources and timeframe given to cover a certain topic. Sometimes less able students did not have time to fully master a topic before it was time to move on to the next topic. Likewise, some of the stronger students mastered a topic quickly and would have liked to move onto the next topic but their progress was slowed down by other members of the class.

So, I was delighted when I first encountered Kumon. The materials allow truly individualised study. The students are able to spend as much time as they need to cover a particular topic. This allows them to progress at a rate which is best for them and this allows them to make considerable improvement.

Harry Vernon is CRB checked, has completed an EduCare/NSPCC Child Protection Awareness Programme and attended a conference on Safeguarding in December 2011.