Frequently asked questions

The limited time offer is £80 per month for one two-hour Coding & Robotics session each week. The offer is limited to 10 places in total across the academy. Your child can start with a free two-hour trial lesson, with no payment details and no obligation to enrol.

Hikora is for young people aged 7-18, taught in three programmes: Younger (7-10), Older (11-15) and Juniors (16-18). Classes are grouped by age and ability, so every child is challenged at just the right level. Juniors meet on Monday evenings, 5:00-7:00pm.

Not at all - no prior experience is needed, and complete beginners are exactly who the pathway is built for. Beginners start with block-based coding whatever their age, and the pathway takes them from those very first steps to advanced projects, at their own pace.

One Coding & Robotics pathway, combining software projects, robotics and electronics through block-based and text-based coding. AI literacy is a separate module taught alongside the pathway, not tied to a particular band. Children learn to build, test and improve their own work, and to understand and question the technology around them.

Younger (7-10) meets Tuesday 4:30-6:30pm or at weekends 10am-noon; Older (11-15) meets Thursday 4:30-6:30pm or at weekends noon-2pm; Juniors (16-18) meets Monday 5-7pm. Your child attends one two-hour session a week. The way in is a free trial lesson: pick the class and the date on the booking form, and it's booked when you send it - we email you the details straight away. Your child joins the class for the full session, and you leave with their starting band in writing, with no obligation.

It's how every child starts at Hikora - a free, full two-hour session in the class they'd join at our Leicester academy, where your child works through our graduated coding & robotics challenges. The highest one they complete unaided sets their starting band on the eight-band ladder, and you leave with that placement in writing - which programme they'd join, where they'd begin, and why, along with the pricing. Drop them off and come back fifteen minutes before the end, and we'll walk you through the pathway together. Pick the class and the date on the booking form and it's booked when you send it. There's no charge, no payment details, and no obligation to enrol.

In person, in Leicester - we don't run online classes. Classes run at Mowmacre Sports Ground on Thurcaston Road, where your child works hands-on with real robots, in a small group - and every class will have a mentor and an assistant in the room.

Classes are capped at 10 students, so no child gets lost in the crowd - and every class will have a mentor and an assistant in the room.

Yes - that's a commitment, not a nicety. Your child will have the same mentor each week: one who will know them by name and track their progress from session to session. Consistency matters for every child, and especially for SEND families and any child who needs predictability to feel settled - if that's your child, tell us when you book the free trial lesson and we'll plan for it.

Our computer science and robotics teachers are qualified and vetted. Every adult who works with a class will hold an enhanced DBS check, first-aid training and a safeguarding induction before they work with children, and we take up references before anyone is appointed. It's the bar every appointment has to clear, and we confirm each person's status to you in writing at the point of booking. Our Designated Safeguarding Lead is Redwaan Maxamed, our co-founder - you can reach him at info@hikora.co.uk, and our Safeguarding & Child Protection policy sets the rest out in full.

Yes - we hold public liability insurance, and no class will meet without it in force.

Yes - every session will have a first-aid-trained adult in the room, without exception.

Your child will earn Hikora Certification as they progress: a certificate at every band from Bronze to Diamond, each one recording exactly what they can do - awarded only when a mentor has watched them do it unaided, never for attendance. The pathway is built toward GCSE Computer Science, and they'll leave every term with the real projects they built, which are theirs to keep. We're also working towards recognised external accreditation on top - we'll announce that the moment it's confirmed.

No. There are no long-term contracts - think of it like a gym membership: you can pause or cancel at any time, with no fees and no minimum term. We earn your continued trust term by term. And the free trial lesson carries no obligation and no payment.

Talk to us - every family's situation is different, and we'd rather work through it with you than apply a blanket rule. Memberships are also pausable at any time, so a holiday never means paying for sessions your child can't attend.

You'll never pay anything before you've chosen to enrol. We don't refund individual missed sessions - pausing exists for exactly that - but you can cancel at any time with no penalty, and we'll always be fair about anything paid in advance. The full policy is set out in our Terms & Conditions.

Yes - families with more than one child at Hikora get a sibling discount. We'll confirm the current rate before you enrol.

Yes. We run camps in school holidays at our Leicester centre, and the next one is published on the holiday camp page as soon as its dates are set.

Nothing to buy - we provide the robotics kits and computers at the centre. Your child just brings themselves.

Call or WhatsApp us on 07455 098033, or email info@hikora.co.uk. We aim to reply within one working day. Or book a free trial lesson and we'll confirm it by email straight away.