What happens during your child’s first GCSE English lesson
We start the first lesson with getting to know each other. The foundation of effective tutoring is trust: students need to feel safe to make mistakes and open to learn from those mistakes. So in the first 10 minutes we use ice-breakers and questions that help us assess how a student learns. We look at […]
Year 9/10 Summer Reading List
Eager to see your child curled up with a book during the summer holidays? Below is a curated list of books suitable for year 9 and 10 students. Engaging with texts from different time periods helps become familiar with the language conventions of the past. This will make reading Shakespeare and the 19th century literary […]
Silence of the grades: why I don’t start with them
In the age of 1-9 GCSE grades, we often lose sight of the student behind the number. High scorers and those who fail have one thing in common: they’re branded with a digit while their effort stays invisible. Grades are a great indication of the general level a student is working at. For example, aiming […]