Holiday/childcare to develop reading & fine motor skills

[Charlatan109]

I’m looking for something to do with DD (5years) during May half term.
She is quite behind with her reading, writing and drawing. So I’m hoping to find something that will help her with this… any ideas? Some sort of educational camp or centre-but something that gives me some time to relax too. I’d be happy to travel in the UK or elsewhere and can be flexible with budget.
We normally go on activity holidays with childcare included (eg Mark Warner, Neilson). These are great; she is physically strong and brave at sports but needs academic help. Is there an educational version?

Oh no poor child, just work on fine motor skills with her, unless u want her to hate education.

How can a child be behind in drawing? She's 5, she needs a break. Play with her, read to her, that's all you need to do, she will develop at her own pace, applying pressure will knock her confidence and could impact her development.

She does really dislike reading herself and gets really frustrated that she can’t do it. I’m worried this frustration will get worse. She knows the others in her class are reading really well (full sentences and complex words.)
She does like being read to. I encourage her to read the odd word but anything more than that, like a line from one of her school “cvc” texts, she gets cross and insists I read it.

Maybe I phrased it badly, but most of the others in her class are much better at it. I see the things they write and put in her bag, or cards etc. She can’t do anything nearly as detailed.

My son was like that. We read to him for many years instead of him reading books himself. We went to bookshops and he chose his books for himself to buy and keep. I kept doing it until he chosen to read on Kindle (then he was 13 I think) he is 24 and reads every day.
Keep offering to read to her. Get her books she likes. Just don't give up. My son said that he is reading now because I never given up on him. I was finding books which interested him (non fiction/general knowledge). Not what his school or friends were reading.

When was the last time you went to a bookshop together and browsed? Tell her she can choose 5 books and you are just going to buy them for her. Ownership of books is different from borrowing them from a library.
Tbh my son really started reading himself when he was 9 and stories were long enough to interest him. He hated kids books with one sentence and a picture.

He ended up doing English Lit at A-levels and writing and comprehension are his strong skills. In his current job after uni he sometimes is asked to help with copywriting. He got A* in Eng Lang at GCSE.

Let her enjoy being 5, don’t put pressure on her.

read together, visit places of interest and read signs, keep a scrap book of what you have been doing. Bake together. Let her have fun.

don’t turn school holidays into some sort of boot camp. That won’t help her want to learn.

Just leave her be, carry on reading together at home and make it interesting and fun.
You do not need to hot house a 5 year old.

As for fine motor skills, again just play, do crafts and draw together and if she doesn't want to do it, leave it.

Please don't turn this stuff into a battleground at home with a child who is likely just developing at her own pace.