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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!

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!

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!

Thank you for taking the time to provide your feedback!

During the last few weeks, we have asked our students’ parents for feedback regarding their experience using our services. We are grateful to have received many responses – thank you for sharing your thoughts with us!

Here are some of the results of this year’s feedback survey:

100% of the parents of our students have rated their tutor’s academic and subject knowledge to be “outstanding”

93% of our parents indicated that both classwork and homework set is “just right”for their child’s needs

100% of our parents said they would recommend Trefoil Tutors to a friend

As the deadline for Priority Registration has now passed, we are delighted to have registered over 180 students to our Mathematics, Further Mathematics, English, Reasoning, Science and Chemistry lessons for the Autumn Term.

We are now excited to offer the final available places to students who are on our waiting list as well as those who are getting in touch with us for the first time!

Please see the available places here: https://www.trefoiltutors.co.uk/availability/

If you have missed the registration deadline but would still like to join our lessons in the upcoming academic year, we would be happy to check any remaining availability as places are now allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

If you have not yet been in touch with us but would like your son or daughter to join our lessons, please contact our Registrar Esther on 0203 565 0539 or email registrar@trefoiltutors.co.uk.

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.

If you would like to join our lessons in the new academic year, or if you would like to learn more about our services, please do get in touch - we look forward to hearing from you!

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.

"The fact that Vivek is a former HABS teacher was definitely one of the factors making me decide that I would send my son to Vivek, because he knew what he was talking about. I knew he had done the HABS syllabus, so certainly Vivek would point him in the right direction."

The winners for the 2024 Yoto Carnegies awards have been announced for 2024! The Yoto Carnegie Medals are the UK’s oldest and best-loved children’s book awards, recognising outstanding reading experiences created through writing and illustration in books for children and young people.

This year, the Medal for Writing has been awarded to The Boy Lost in the Maze by Joseph Coelho.

The story portrays a boy’s journey into manhood and “cleverly integrates” the ancient legacy of the Minotaur with the contemporary journey of a teenager searching for his biological father.

The Medal for Illustration and The 2024 Shadowers’ Choice Medal for Illustration have been awarded to The Tree and the River by Aaron Becker.

Looking at the evolution of human impact on the natural environment through the fate of a lone tree and an enduring river, the timely story gives “a sense of hope”, with Becker’s use of colour to depict the seasons “transformative” and use of light “exceptional”.

The Shadowers’ Choice Medal for Writing has been awarded to Crossing the Line by Tia Fisher.

Based on a true story about teenagers swept up into county lines, this ‘innovative and engaging’ story shows the power of poetry to convey difficult truths in a way that engages and excites young minds.

Those looking are looking for any extra reading should take a look at this year's shortlist for the Yoto Carnegie awards: https://yotocarnegies.co.uk/writing-shortlist-2024/ as well as winners from previous years: https://yotocarnegies.co.uk/archive/writing-winners/.

Happy reading!

As we start the new academic year, we would like to share our Term Dates for the 2024 / 2025 academic year with parents and students. Students will attend twelve lessons each term, with all our Year 4, 5, 11 and 12 students attending an additional set of six lessons in August 2025.

Please note that Year 11 and Year 13 students will end their academic year after the first half of the Summer Term. No lessons take place during Half Term breaks and holidays.

Click here to download the Term Dates for the 2024/2025 academic year:

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.

“Working with Milda and Vivek has been so easy; they are very professional, welcoming and flexible, so it’s been a dream really coming to this tutoring centre. 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. I highly recommend the tutoring centre for their professionalism, skills and high standards that they teach to.”