Jun 2, 2020 | Homeschooling, Mentoring, Primary Mentoring
June 1st is the date that the Prime Minister announced that children can begin returning to school in England following ten weeks of lockdown. He announced that it would be done in stages, with primary schools opening up for years six, one and reception and the hope...
Apr 27, 2020 | A Levels, Homeschooling, Mentoring, Revision
Our fifth and final part in our series looks at supporting your children with homeschooling in KS5. Let’s be honest, it isn’t an easy task to support your seventeen year old son or daughter, who is used to working independently, starting to spread their wings and...
Apr 17, 2020 | GCSE, Homeschooling, Mentoring
Our fourth part in our series looks at supporting your children with homeschooling in KS4, the GCSE years of secondary school, from the ages of fourteen to sixteen. Students from KS4 fall into two halves. Those in Year 11 who have had GCSE examinations cancelled, and...
Apr 9, 2020 | Homeschooling, Mentoring
Our third part of our series looks at supporting your children with homeschooling in KS3, the first few years of secondary school, from the ages of eleven to fourteen. This is often a very awkward age when your children are developing into teenagers and one minute...
Mar 23, 2020 | A Levels, GCSE, Homeschooling, Mentoring, Study Tips
How to study at home for secondary students? In these uncertain times of coronavirus, with schools partially closed and families and young people self-isolating, this is the big question. At first, the prospect of an indefinite school holiday might sound exciting and...
Jan 28, 2020 | A Levels, GCSE, Mentoring
I am often asked, what are the benefits of mentoring for GCSE and A’level students. Educating teenagers for over twenty years has taught me three universal truths about achievement: The first is that young people begin to flourish when they realise, and then...
