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At Trefoil Tutors, we know that the educational experience extends far beyond the confines of an individual lesson. To help maintain engagement and avoid academic regression, our Lead Tutors Vivek, Milda and Rebecca have prepared a series of subject-specific projects for our students to complete over the Summer Holidays.

The deadline for submitting all projects is Saturday, the 31st of August. Projects can either be emailed to office@trefoiltutors.co.uk or handed in to your tutor in person. Late submissions will not be accepted.

The student who produces the best project in each year group, as decided by each lead tutor, will be awarded with subject-themed prizes once they return to Trefoil Tutors in the new academic year.

For more information, please visit the Summer Projects page on our website:

https://www.trefoiltutors.co.uk/summer-projects/

MATHS SUMMER PROJECT - WRITTEN BY VIVEK:

I am delighted to announce that Year 3 to Year 10 students will have the opportunity to create a Summer Mathematics Project.

The Project can take any form that the student wishes; be that an essay, a PowerPoint presentation, a video, a poster or anything else that catches their eye. There is no word limit or page limit to their endeavours; I would hate to set a glass ceiling to their creativity!

However, this is not a completely blank canvas. The students’ Summer Mathematics Project does need to focus on one of the topics listed for their respective year group. These topics have been selected as they are based on elements of the mathematics scheme of work that has been taught this academic year.

CREATIVE WRITING COMPETITION - WRITTEN BY KISH:

I am delighted to invite all students from Year 3 to Year 11 to take part in our Summer Creative Writing Competition and employ their creativity and imagination to compose a piece of creative fiction. The list of titles for each year group’s creative writing pieces can be found on our website.

Your story can be typed or handwritten; it must have a clear link to the title and be no longer than 1,000 words. The entries will be considered within each year group. The top entry within the year group will be awarded.

KITCHEN SCIENCE INVESTIGATIONS - WRITTEN BY REBECCA:

The Summer Holidays are a great time to complete some science investigations within your very own home!

I have put together a series of activities, one for each year group, linked to content that we have covered in lessons this academic year. I have also put together an investigation for Junior School students for any budding scientists out there! The science investigations focus on enquiry skills helping students delve into the linked scientific research, hone their experimental skills, and practice data handling.

Each science investigation has an 8-page section to complete that guides you throughout the entire investigation. Print out the relevant section for your year group and complete all of your answers in the spaces provided. Please use additional lined paper if required.

We look forward to reading your projects!

We are delighted to share with you the positive feedback contributed by the parents of students who have attended our group lessons and found these enjoyable and beneficial to their learning.

“We have seen a huge improvement in Lakesha’s subject knowledge in Maths. Her confidence, for a start, has improved, as well as the way she answers questions, her attitude in class - being able to put her hand up and ask questions, but most importantly, her grades at school have improved and we noticed this within a few months of starting lessons at Trefoil.”

At Trefoil Tutors, we are very proud of the quality of the Mathematics, Further Mathematics, English, Reasoning, Science and Chemistry lessons prepared and delivered by our tutors.

Each of our lessons is focused on a particular topic with a set of classwork exercises and a homework assignment; every three weeks, students sit an in-class assessment. All our materials are unique and written in-house by our subject-specialist tutors to fit the carefully planned scheme of work for the year group.

Today, we would like to share with you two free Mathematics lessons taught by our Senior Tutor Vivek - a Year 8 lesson on Pythagoras' Theorem and a Year 9 lesson on Loci. Both lessons come with a full set of materials as well as a teaching video from the tutor. We hope the young mathematicians among us find these useful!

https://www.trefoiltutors.co.uk/sample-lessons/

With registration for the new academic year well underway, we have just a handful of places available in our lessons across year groups from Year 4 to Year 13. If you would like your son or daughter to join one of our classes in September, or if you would like to join the waiting list for classes that are currently full, please do contact us on 0203 565 0539 or complete our online enquiry form: https://www.trefoiltutors.co.uk/enquiry/

We look forward to hearing from you!

Trefoil Tutors are looking to employ a part-time Bursar to join our established team, starting in August 2024. The Bursar will be responsible for maintaining day-to-day company bookkeeping and will report to the Director of Accounts.

To apply for the role, please send your CV and a cover letter to our Director of Accounts Milda Gathani at jobs@trefoiltutors.co.uk before Sunday, 21st July 2024.

Applications will be reviewed as they arrive; please apply as soon as possible.

For further details, please contact our Director of Accounts Milda on 0203 565 0539 or visit our vacancies page on our website:

We are delighted to share with you the positive feedback contributed by the parents of students who have attended our group lessons and found these enjoyable and beneficial to their learning.

“Going through the 11+ process can be quite stressful for parents, especially if you haven’t had a child go through it beforehand, because you aren’t sure of what to do, how to do it, or what schools to apply for. There was a lot of guidance from Vivek and Milda with regards to 11+ preparation and which schools to choose. There was advice available when I needed it. They were able to tell me how my children were progressing through the subject matter, so it gave us confidence in knowing what choices to make in the 11+ journey. They involved the children in the decision-making process as well, so it was really useful.

There’s a wide variety of subjects involved in the 11+: English, Maths and Reasoning. Therefore there’s a lot of subject matter that you can use to help prepare your child. For me it was brilliant, especially when the results and the offers for interviews came out. The support didn’t just stop there either, it was ongoing, right through until the very end of the 11+ programme, which meant you felt fully supported throughout the entire journey.”

We are delighted to share the news that Trefoil Tutors was announced the winner at the National Tutoring Awards 2024 in the category of Tuition Provider for Evaluating Impact!

Awarded by the Tutors’ Association, this prestigious national award celebrates excellence in the tutoring industry and we are very proud to be recognised as one of the country’s leading providers of tutoring services.

At Trefoil Tutors, professionalism and provision of teaching and learning of the highest quality are at the very core of the service we offer our students and their parents. We work to augment and support, rather than replace, a child’s educational development at school. With over a decade of experience in delivering private tutoring, we truly believe that small-group lessons, taught and run in the right way, are the future of education.

As we celebrate the award, we would like to express our most sincere thanks to all our students and their parents for their ongoing support and commitment throughout the years, as well as our team who continue to work relentlessly in order to provide tutoring of the highest standard to each and every one of our clients.

With the final lessons of the Summer Term now complete, we would like to thank our students and their parents for all of their hard work and support throughout the year. The office team and tutor team will be in the office this week, conducting parent report meetings and preparing for next academic year. While this academic year is now over, we are already looking forward to welcoming back our Year 4, 5, 11 and 12 students for Summer Lessons on the 12th of August. The remaining year groups will resume lessons in the week commencing 9th September. We wish you all a happy, healthy and relaxing summer! Stay tuned for our holiday work, newsletter and fun ideas to keep you busy over the Summer!

This summer, our English tutor Kishan Ganatra would like to invite students to explore their creativity and imagination and take part in our Summer Creative Writing Competition. The competition is open to students from Year 3 to Year 11; the entries will be considered within each year group. The top entry within the year group will receive a special prize!

The list of titles for each year group’s creative writing pieces are as follows:

Year 3: The Creature Under My Bed

Year 4: Don’t Press The Button!

Year 5: The Girl Who Never Laughed

Year 6: A Burden Shared Is A Burden Lifted

Year 7: One Man’s Dream Is Another Man’s Nightmare

Year 8: The Day We Forgot

Year 9: The Undelivered Message

Year 10: We Need To Talk

Year 11: Nothing Beats A Home-Cooked Meal

If taking part in the competition was not exciting enough, there will also be a prize for the winners!

To take part, please send your entries to office@trefoiltutors.co.uk until the 31st of August.

We look forward to reading your stories!

Our Senior Tutor, Vivek Gathani, shares his advice with parents who are looking to find the right support for their children with the help of a tutor.

In this video, Vivek has outlined four guidelines that he advises all parents to follow before engaging a tutor to work with their child.

You can watch Vivek’s advice video here: https://youtu.be/9GNHiW5qFPs

If you would like any further advice, please do not hesitate to contact our team by emailing office@trefoiltutors.co.uk or call us on 0203 565 0539.

As the end of the academic year gets closer and closer, we would like to remind parents that this week still offers the possibility to benefit from our Early Bird full year payment discount of £150 (incl. VAT) when you book your child’s place for the full academic year. Please note the discount is available until this Sunday, 14th July!

We are pleased to confirm that we will continue to offer our regular full year payment discount of £100 (Incl. VAT) until Sunday, 15th October.

For students going into Year 11 or Year 13, this discounts will be calculated pro-rata depending on how many Summer Term lessons they attend.

Please note that parents who opt in to benefit from the full year booking discount will not be able to request a refund for remaining lessons if they choose to stop lessons midway through the academic year.

The discount is applied per subject and can be combined with other discounts.

To make use of the early bird discount, please contact our Registrar Esther on 0203 565 0539 or by emailing registrar@trefoiltutors.co.uk. We look forward to hearing from you.

As the deadline for Priority Registration has now passed, we are delighted to have registered over 240 students to our Mathematics, Further Mathematics, English, Science, Reasoning and Chemistry lessons for the Autumn Term.

At Trefoil Tutors, we are incredibly proud of the quality of teaching and learning we deliver across a range of different subjects. In our small group lessons, our team of qualified teachers and experienced tutors aim to augment and support the work done by schools. Students are taught according to a structured scheme of work and are given weekly homework assignments and regular assessments which are all prepared in-house by our tutors, with weekly individual feedback provided to parents via our personalised online portal.

A far cry away from traditional one-to-one tuition, our lessons take place in purpose-built classrooms in our Elstree office where tutors are supported by a full-time administrative team to ensure they can spend their time teaching. All our tutors are qualified teachers or experienced tutors who are subject specialists and have been DBS checked, fully insured and have attended safeguarding courses run at Trefoil Tutors. These are the standards expected at top schools in the country and we firmly believe tutors should hold themselves to the same standards.

As we prepare for the new academic year, a small number of places are still available in our group lessons. If you feel that your son or daughter would benefit from specialist tuition in Mathematics, Further Mathematics, English, Chemistry, Science or Reasoning, please do get in touch. Please note that places are offered to students on our waiting list and then allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

To enquire regarding booking a place, please call our Registrar Esther on 0203 565 0539 or email registrar@trefoiltutors.co.uk.

We look forward to hearing from you!

We would like to remind students and parents that this is the final week of group lessons as the Summer Term comes to an end on Sunday, the 14th of July. After the break, students in Years 4, 5, 11 and 12 will return to the classroom from Monday, the 12th of August for Summer Lessons while all other group lessons will return the week commencing on Monday, the 9th of September.

We look forward to seeing everyone for their final lessons this week and wrapping up the academic year together!

During the last few weeks, we have asked all students at Trefoil Tutors for feedback regarding their experience of attending our lessons. We are very grateful for the huge number of responses – thank you for sharing your thoughts with us! Having analysed the results, we are pleased to share some of the most interesting insights with you:

100% of our students indicated the lessons to be “very useful” or “quite useful”

91.5% of the students find the size of the class to be “just right”

80.5% of our students said that marking of their assignments and assessments at Trefoil Tutors is “much better” or “better” compared to work marked at school

Our students have said:

“They have really helped me improve my English and vocabulary. “

“They have a lot of resources on the website which helps me with my homework set from school.”

“They help me to improve my results and they also help me build my knowledge.”

Thank you for your feedback - we are delighted to hear you are enjoying your time at Trefoil!

Take part in the Foyle Young Poets of the Year competition this summer! The Foyle Young Poets of the Year Award is the biggest poetry competition for 11-17 year olds in the world.

Participation is free - visit www.foyleyoungpoets.org to submit your poems!

For inspiration, have a look at the online anthology of last year’s winning poems: https://poetrysociety.org.uk/competitions/foyle-young-poets-of-the-year-award/2023-2/

At Trefoil Tutors, we value the importance of maintaining an ongoing conversation between parents, tutors and students as a key factor in maintaining tutee progress and development. As the Summer Term comes to an end, we would therefore like to invite parents to book a meeting to speak to your child’s tutor and discuss their progress throughout the academic year. 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 Parent Portal, click on Report Meetings and choose a convenient date and time to speak to your child's tutor.

We are delighted to share with you the positive feedback contributed by the parents of students who have attended our group lessons and found these enjoyable and beneficial to their learning.

“Raya’s favourite subject is English but since joining Trefoil Tutors, she loves Maths equally now. Her confidence has increased, she can focus longer, and even her methods have improved. We received the school report and she is now exceeding all expectations.”

A reminder to all students and parents that as we approach the end of the Summer Term, students will be sitting an assessment in their lessons this week. This is so assessments can be returned in Week 12 before the Summer Holidays begin. Do remember to review your classwork notes and homework assignments in preparation!

We would like to say a big congratulations to all our students who have sat and finished their GCSE and A Level examinations. Very well done! After months of hard work, we hope you have a restful and enjoyable summer break. We look forward to hearing from you on Results Day!