Everyone agrees Year 3 is a foundations year. The trouble is that “foundations” is a vague word, and it’s hard to act on something vague. What foundations, exactly? Which specific skills should your child have solid by the end of Year 3, and how would you even know if they

A lot of families end up with their tutoring stitched together from spare parts. A maths tutor found through a friend. An English tutor from somewhere else entirely. Two different people, two schedules, two approaches, and nobody with the full picture of how your child is actually doing across the

Word problems are where a child who can do the maths often comes undone. Hand them a page of sums and they fly through it; wrap the same calculation in a sentence or two and they stall, staring, unsure where to even begin. It’s one of the most common frustrations