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At Trefoil Tutors, we recognise the importance of maintaining an ongoing conversation between parents, tutors and students as a key factor in maintaining tutee progress and development. As a very successful Autumn Term comes to an end, we would like to invite parents to book in a meeting to speak to your child’s tutor and discuss their progress throughout the academic year so far. These meetings will build on the personalised feedback the tutors upload to the online portal every week.

To book your meeting, please log in to the online portal and choose a convenient date and time.

We would like to remind parents of our current students that priority registration for the Spring Term is now open and that our current students' places in the lessons are reserved until Sunday, the 6th of December. Please do make sure to book your child's place before this date to ensure continuity of lessons. Any places that are not booked by this date will be offered to students on the waiting list on a first-come, first-served basis.

"The lessons have given him a great deal of confidence and he’s got the belief he can achieve the top grade in maths."

We are delighted that students attending weekly lessons at Trefoil Tutors can use this towards the skills section of their Duke of Edinburgh Award! If you are pursuing Duke of Edinburgh Bronze, Silver or Gold Awards, please do get in touch with your tutor and we'd be happy to complete this section for you.

With many schools hosting virtual Parents' Evenings in the upcoming weeks, our senior tutor Vivek comments on his time as a school teacher and shares useful advice on how to approach, and make the most of, the conversations with your child's teachers.

To watch the video, please visit our Facebook page

In this week’s Senior Tutor update, Vivek highlights the importance of students completing corrections during our online lessons. He goes on to emphasise the value of managing students’ confidence, motivation and energy levels during a long half term. Additionally, our Registrar Milda reminds parents that priority registration for Spring Term is now open, with places for our current students reserved until Friday, the 4th of December. Milda emphasises that places will no longer be reserved after this deadline and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

"We are delighted with Gabriela’s progress: she has improved so much, in her confidence, in her attitude to the subject - and she looks forward to the lessons."

Our Economics group lessons are run by our Economics tutor Christoph, a professional Economics teacher with over three years of experience teaching at Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School. Christoph holds a BSc(Econ) in Economics and an MSc in Economic History from the London School of Economics (LSE). Moreover, Christoph is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA).

We would like to remind parents of our current students that priority registration for the Spring Term has begun! As always, in order to help ensure continuity of teaching and learning, we would like to give priority to students already attending the lessons to book their place in the upcoming term before we offer any available places to pupils on our waiting list.

In this week's Senior Tutor Update, Vivek reflects on our return to online lessons for the second lockdown. After expressing his gratitude towards the parents of our students, our tutors and our administrative team for putting in all the extra time to ensure a smooth running of lessons online, Vivek turns to our students. To help them make the most of learning in a virtual environment, Vivek shares four useful observations about online learning and offers useful advice on engaging with the material and maintaining the continuity of learning despite the changes to the learning environment. As next week is Assessment Week, our Director of Studies Rebecca speaks to students about effective revision methods in order to help them prepare for the upcoming week.

From all of us at Trefoil, we would like to wish you all a very happy Diwali! Although we may not be able to celebrate the festival surrounded by family and friends this year, we hope you are keeping in touch with your loved ones despite the distance!

"The best thing about the lessons is that they didn’t get thrown into the deep end – they were told exactly what they were going to do, and everything was prepared."

Did you know this November is the month to read more non-fiction? In this week’s video, our lead English tutor Milda talks about National Non-Fiction November and the benefits of broadening your reading interests.

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The Primary Maths Challenge commences today, with Year 5 and Year 6 students competing for gold, silver and bronze certificates across the country. We would like to wish the best of luck to all participants! Remember that it is not an exam, but a challenge - so stay calm and enjoy the process.

Following the Prime Minister’s announcement to impose a second lockdown, we have been closely following updates to the guidelines outlined by the Government. Regrettably, we have been forced to temporarily take our lessons online from Thursday 5th November 2020. Please note that we will return to face-to-face lessons as soon as we are allowed to by the Government. We will continue to monitor and reassess the situation daily.

Should you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to contact our office on 0203 565 0539 or via email office@trefoiltutors.co.uk.

Stay safe and see you on Skype!

"My girls absolutely love coming to Trefoil, they don't like to miss the lessons. They love doing the homework and making sure that it's perfect. It's been a very good experience and I wouldn't change it for anything."

Reading is a surefire way to develop a plethora of skills, from improving one's spelling and creative writing to developing social understanding and broadening knowledge of a variety of topics. Therefore, our Lead English Tutor Milda would like to share with you her thoughts about reading for your own pleasure and the benefits this habit may bring.

To watch Milda's video, please visit our Facebook page:

We hope all our students and parents have had a relaxing half-term break. We are excited to welcome all our students back to our lessons which resume today. We look forward to seeing you this week!

Our team also would like to wish the best of luck to all those sitting the Senior Maths Challenge today - if you are not taking part but would like to have a look at some of the SMC paper from previous years, do visit https://www.ukmt.org.uk/competitions/solo/senior-mathematical-challenge/archive.