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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.

“First and foremost, it is an extremely nurturing environment, which gives a lot of personal attention to each student. Personally, my boys absolutely love coming here and the fact that they love coming here and they still learn is amazing. Some kids will only like going somewhere because they’re going to have a good time and not really get much out of it, but they enjoy coming here - regardless of what time it might be, whether it's eight in the morning or five in the evening - and they get a lot out of it as well.

I think that comes from that nurturing environment, and the fact that Trefoil Tutors takes a lot of time and care in making sure that the material is age appropriate, and is appropriate for whatever target you’ve set yourself, whether it’s the 11+ or A Levels, or GCSEs. A lot of care goes into the material they provide, the way they approach the lessons, and also the planning they do. It is really everything you’d want from a tuition centre, and we cannot say enough good things about it and our experience has been only positive. It’s like a family, and we feel part of that family now.”

In this week's Senior Tutor Update, Vivek does his best impression of a newsreader, summarising a busy week at Trefoil. Vivek reminds parents of the continued building work taking place in the car park. Vivek goes on to inform parents about the first set of academic monitoring emails that will be sent this week. With the cold season upon us, Vivek encourages students to attend lessons face-to-face if they are well enough to do so, but equally, to make use of the calling-in facility if they are unwell. Vivek also reminds students to complete corrections and begin their revision for the assessment in Week 6. With parents of our students in mind, Vivek proudly announces the start of the event schedule at Trefoil, with the 11+ Parents' Advice Evening taking place on Monday 16th October. Our Director of Accounts Milda brings two important announcements. Firstly, our full year payment discount is available until the end of the Half Term (16 October). Parents are welcome to secure their child's place for the full academic year and receive an additional £100 discount per subject. Secondly, Milda reminds parents of how important it is to join our courses at the start rather than mid-way through the year, and encourages parents to review the available places in the range of subjects we teach at Trefoil Tutors.

The International Day of Awareness of Food Loss and Waste is all about making people aware of how much food is being wasted between harvest and retail and in the home. This year’s focus is all about taking action to transform the food system to reduce the waste created.

For more information on why being aware of food waste is so important, as well as tips on what each one of us can to help reduce food waste, please follow the link below:

We are delighted to introduce you to our English Tutor Kishan Ganatra. Although Kishan has been teaching with us for over a year, we are proud to announce that this academic year, he has now joined our teaching team on a full-time basis, teaching English to students from Year 3 to Year 11.

Having completed his PGCE course at the Institute of Education and obtained his teaching qualification, Kishan is an excellent tutor who has firmly established a reputation for delivering engaging and purposeful lessons to our students. With an outstanding academic record, Kishan is a graduate from the University of Nottingham with a BA in English and an alumnus of Haberdashers’ Boys’ School.

In this week's Senior Tutor Update, our Senior Tutor Vivek reviews the first Assessment Week of the academic year and reminds students of the good routines we’ve been establishing. Additionally, with cross-year examinations usually taking place in schools in the coming months, Vivek discusses a number of effective revision methods building on VAK theory, which will be helpful to all our students regardless of their age. Our Director of Operations, Armine, reminds parents that works are still taking place on the upper level of Theobald Court car park. Armine presents the events that will be taking place this Term, the 11+ Parents Advice Evening and Parents Social Evening. Year 4 and Year 5 parents should expect the invitations for signing up to the 11+ Advice Evening in their inboxes in the upcoming days.

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.

“I’m really happy with sending Rishi to Trefoil. One of the biggest highlights for me was the way Trefoil handled tutoring during the lockdown period. I was so impressed with the way the Skype lessons were managed. The video uploads that Vivek had done were outstanding, and that actually allowed my son to go back and look at the videos multiple times if he had any queries or questions. It was absolutely amazing.

I think that signing my son up for lessons at Trefoil was a really good decision and I’ve seen his school results improve drastically. So overall, I’m a really happy parent.”

From all of us at Trefoil Tutors, we would like to wish you all a happy Yom Kippur. G'mar Chatima Tova!

Registration open for 11+ mock examinations during the October Half Term!

With the 11+ entrance examinations season having already begun, we would like to remind Year 6 students to book their place in our Mathematics, Reasoning and English mock examinations that will take place during the October Half Term.

The mock examinations are modelled on 11+ entrance examination papers to Independent Schools in the North London area.

The Mathematics mock examination papers are written by Vivek Gathani, our lead Mathematics tutor who helped write and mark the 11+ entrance examination papers when teaching at Haberdashers' Boys' School.

The English mock examination papers are written by Milda Gathani, our lead English tutor who has been preparing pupils for 11+ entrance examinations to grammar and independent schools since 2013.

The Reasoning mock examination papers are written by Rebecca Wolffe, our lead Reasoning and Science tutor with 10 years of teaching experience and previously Director of Science at Verulam School in St Albans.

The mocks will take place at our premises in Elstree (5 Theobald Court, Theobald Street, WD6 4RN), with students attending the mock examinations in person.

Each 2-hour-long exam session will contain:

• an introduction to the paper structure by the tutor
• a brief Q&A session for the students about the 11+ process
• sitting the 60-minute-long examination
• a 15-minute break while the tutor marks the papers
• a review of the paper highlighting common mistakes

Students have the opportunity to sit a different mock examination paper each day for Mathematics, Reasoning and English.

For available dates and times for the mock examinations, please visit the dedicated page on our website:

Places are booked on a first-come, first-served basis.

To book your place, please call us on 0203 565 0539 or email office@trefoiltutors.co.uk.

We would like to wish the best of luck to all our 11+ students sitting the first round of entrance examinations for Queen Elizabeth's School today!

We know you have worked hard preparing for your examinations. Now is the time to stay focused and remember the lessons learned during your revision and practice.

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.

“Ideally, I would say 11+ preparation is a two year journey. With our elder son, Daniyal, we didn’t have a choice because we’d moved from Singapore, so he started in Year 5, and I know that if Daniyal had started in Year 4 he would have done even better than he did. They are young children - you can’t cram it all in, in one year. The lessons are very structured, and Daniyal did the Summer Lessons in August as well for both English and Maths - that was very, very helpful. The Summer Lessons are intense, they are tailored towards students practising past papers and they are coming two days a week for each subject. Additionally, it’s in August so the timing is really good as well.”

In this week's Senior Tutor Update, Vivek reflects on how quickly the first quarter of the term has passed. Vivek reminds parents to ensure that they have logged in to the portal to receive up-to-date feedback which is being written by our tutors. The feedback written in the next fortnight will refer to the first two assignment sheets as well as the first assessment, which will be sat by the tutees this week. Our Director of Studies, Rebecca, then shares her advice as students revise for their first assessment this academic year. Have a great week, everyone, and very best of luck for the Assessment Week!

As we enter Week 3 of the Autumn Term, we would like to remind students that this is the first assessment week of the Term. Students will be sitting a 20-minute assessment in their lessons this week. Some classes will not be given an assessment this week, for example, Reasoning students and some A Level classes. For these classes, a longer assessment will be given in Week 6.

Remember to follow Vivek and Rebecca’s advice in this week’s Senior Tutor Update video and the Welcome Booklet on how best to revise for these assessments!

We are delighted to remind parents that this academic year, we continue to offer the full-year booking discount of £100 until the end of the first Half Term, on Sunday, the 15th of October.

So far, 23% parents have booked their child's place in the group lessons for the full academic year and have received the £100 discount (for students attending 36 lessons throughout the year).

Students in Year 11 and Year 13 will be attending a smaller number of lessons throughout the year; therefore, their discount is calculated pro-rata.

If you would like to use the full-year payment discount, please contact our Registrar, Esther, at registrar@trefoiltutors.co.uk, who will then send you a revised invoice.

For the discount to apply, we must receive your full year payment by 5pm on Sunday, the 15th of October.

For more information, please contact us on 0203 565 0539 or at registrar@trefoiltutors.co.uk

We are delighted to have welcomed over 300 students back into our classrooms for our Mathematics, Further Mathematics, English, Reasoning, Science, Biology and Economics group lessons.

We are now pleased 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.

For more information, please visit our availability page:

If you would like to join our lessons in this 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.

We look forward to hearing from you!

In this week's Senior Tutor Update, Vivek begins by reflecting on the week just gone. Vivek thanks tutees, their parents, tutors and the office team for all hard work and dedication during the extremely rewarding - albeit exhausting - first week of the 2023/2024 academic year. Vivek reminds parents to check the log in details provided and to check that students are equipped with the correct calculators. Looking ahead to next week, Vivek emphasises the need to establish good working routines. Once these are established, students and tutors can focus more of their efforts on exploring the subject material. Our Director of Accounts, Milda, reminds parents about the possibility to register students for lessons in more than one subject, book a place for the full academic year as well as place siblings’ names on our waiting list if you would like to join our lessons in the future. We are delighted to continue offering our recommendation, multiple subject, sibling and full year payment discounts this 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.

“There has been a significant improvement, my son’s subject knowledge has been stretched and he is constantly being encouraged to think deeper into the subjects that he is being taught. Dilan absolutely loves the group settings; they’re big enough where the children can interact with each other, share ideas. Also, they are small enough so that the child can get their individual attention from the Tutor. Dilan absolutely adores his tutors, the tutors at Trefoil are passionate, enthusiastic and highly knowledgeable in their subjects that they teach, and most importantly they make the lessons fun and engaging!”

As we start the new academic year, we would like to share our Term Dates for the 2023 / 2024 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 2024.

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 2023/2024 academic year:

We would like to wish the best of luck to all our 11+ students sitting the entrance examinations for the South West Consortium!

We know you have worked hard preparing for your examinations. Now is the time to stay focused and remember the lessons learned during your revision and practice.