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

If you’re thinking about tutoring for a primary-aged child, you probably have a few quiet reservations. Will it feel like more school piled on top of school? Will it stress a young child out? What actually happens in a session, and will it even make a difference at this age?

Few things are more frustrating than watching a capable child come out of an exam having underperformed, not because they didn’t know the material, but because they didn’t finish. “I ran out of time.” “I never got to the last page.” “I spent too long on one question.” The knowledge

Deciding to go for Selective is the easy part. The harder question is where to actually begin, and it’s one a lot of families get wrong from the first move. The instinct is to buy a stack of practice papers and start drilling, which feels like serious preparation and is

The homework routine that worked beautifully when your child was in Year 3 has a way of falling apart by Year 8. The quick afternoon session with you nearby, once the whole job, now covers barely a fraction of what a high schooler has to manage. That’s not a failure

You started tutoring with high hopes, and now you’re not sure. The marks haven’t moved much. You can’t quite tell if anything’s changing. And a question has started nagging: is this working, or is it time to switch? It’s one of the hardest calls a parent makes, because the two

Your child has just started high school, or is about to. The uniform’s a bit big, the bag’s full of books for subjects they’ve never studied, and the first few weeks are a blur of new faces, new rooms and a timetable nobody can quite read yet. Year 7 is

The summer between Year 6 and Year 7 is one of the biggest leaps a child makes in their whole schooling. They finish primary as one of the oldest, most confident kids in the school, and start high school a few weeks later as one of the smallest, in a

Ask most children to argue a point out loud and they’ll do it happily, endlessly, and with real conviction, especially about bedtime or screen time. Ask the same child to write a persuasive piece, and something freezes. The opinions that flowed so easily at the dinner table won’t come out

Comparing tutoring options should be simple, and somehow never is. You start with good intentions, a few names, a browser tab or two, and within an afternoon you’re drowning in websites that all say the same things, prices that don’t line up, and glowing reviews that tell you nothing useful.