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With the new school year around the corner, the start of September brings a big change to thousands of students who will be making the transition from a primary to a secondary school. After months of hard work preparing for their 11+ examinations, our Year 7 students step into the next stage of their academic career as secondary school pupils.

As part of the Educational Q&A Series, our Senior Tutor, Vivek Gathani, published a video sharing his advice about making the most of the experience and supporting your son or daughter through this exciting - albeit sometimes daunting - moment of their school life.

Having worked at Haberdashers' Boys' School for four years as a teacher, Year 7 form tutor and deputy housemaster, Vivek is closely familiar with the day-to-day opportunities and challenges the students face in a new school.

To watch the video, please follow the link: https://fb.watch/5hlcvyT1iK/

We would like to wish all those starting the year in a new school the best of luck! Secondary school has a wealth of exciting opportunities to offer you, both academically and in its extracurricular pursuits.

We hope you enjoy this part of your school journey. We can't wait to hear your first impressions!

As the 11+ entrance examination season begins, we would like to wish the best of luck to all our 11+ students sitting the first round of entrance examinations for Henrietta Barnett School today and tomorrow!

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.

“The small group setting has really benefited Raya. She loves sharing her ideas and I think it gives her a little sense of competition, which is good. I think that the length of the lessons, at one and a half hours, is fine. We really like how flexible the lessons are, if she can’t attend in person she has the option to join via Skype. We like that the Maths lessons also come with a pre-recorded video, so that she can revisit the topic if needed. She really enjoyed the interactive ambience in the classroom, the tutors make learning fun. She really, really enjoys attending lessons at Trefoil.”

As the 11+ entrance examination season begins, we would like to wish the best of luck to all our 11+ students sitting the first round of entrance examinations for Dame Alice Owen’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.

With Autumn Term starting in 9 days, our Registration team are busier than ever offering the handful of final available places to students who are looking to join us in the new academic year.

Each year, we see over 90% of our students return for lessons in the new academic year. At Trefoil Tutors, we are committed to long-term teaching and learning and have seen the benefits that students reap when continuing lessons across several academic years. We encourage our students to begin their lessons with us at the start of the academic year, and to continue with us as they progress through the school years.

If your son or daughter would like to join our small, specialised group lessons in Mathematics, Further Mathematics, English, Science, Reasoning and Chemistry, please visit the Group Availability page on our website to check if places are still available:

https://www.trefoiltutors.co.uk/availability/

The page is regularly updated with the number of places still available in our group lessons, making it easy for you to check the times and dates of available groups.

To book a place in one of the groups, please complete an enquiry form on our website, contact our Registrar Esther on 0203 565 0539 or by emailing registrar@trefoiltutors.co.uk, or click on the relevant “Contact” button on the webpage to express your interest.

If the group you would like to join is full, please contact us to be added to the waiting list.

We look forward to hearing from you!

With 11+ Grammar School examinations taking place over the next few weeks, our Senior Mathematics Tutor, Vivek Gathani, has written a mock examination which we are delighted to share with you for free.

Vivek is a qualified teacher with over 13 years’ experience in private tutoring. During his time as a Mathematics teacher at Haberdashers' Boys' School, Vivek helped mark and write the 11+ examination.

We hope that parents and students will find this paper useful in their final preparations. Answers to the paper have also been provided.

To download the paper, follow the link below: https://bit.ly/3vbTifG

For the answers and additional 11+ mock examination papers, please visit the Resources page on our website: https://www.trefoiltutors.co.uk/specific-resources/…

At Trefoil Tutors, we offer small, specialised classes run by qualified teachers and experienced tutors. With over 250 students already booked in for September, we do have a small number of places in our Mathematics, English and Science classes still available.

Please do get in touch with our Registrar on 0203 565 05 39 or via email on registrar@trefoiltutors.co.uk for more information.

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’ve had a very positive experience with Trefoil. All of the teachers have been great, they have made the classes fun, interactive and engaging. The lessons are very structured and methodical; you can see that the tutors have put in a lot of effort in creating the lessons. The tutors are constantly checking the students’ progress by providing written feedback for each weekly assignment and through regular assessments. Overall, it is clear that it is a very organised and structured tutoring company.”

All of the Trefoil Team would like to say a big congratulations to all our GCSE students who will be receiving their results today. Very well done for reaching this important milestone in your academic journey!

As every year, our team of tutors will be waiting to hear from their students with great anticipation.

Should you need any advice, or if you have a moment to share your results with us, please do give our office a call on 0203 565 0539 – we would love to hear from you!

Our team of tutors would like to wish the best of luck to all our students who are opening those envelopes tomorrow morning – we hope all your hard work will bring its rewards!

As every year, our team of tutors will be waiting to hear from their students with great anticipation! We would like to invite our Year 11 students to share their results with us on Thursday, 22nd August at 10:30am-11:30am at the Trefoil office.

Should you need any advice, or if you have a moment to share your results with us, please do give our office a call on 0203 565 0539 – we would love to hear from you!

In anticipation of Results Day, we would like to share with you the video our Senior Tutor, Vivek Gathani, recorded the week before Results Day in 2019, offering some very useful advice on how to prepare for GCSE Results day and what to do if your results turn out to be different to those you had expected.

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.

“For me, it has been a pleasure working with Trefoil. That’s why my children come here - because I enjoy the experience of being a parent and working with Trefoil, but also my children enjoy coming here. Whenever I have needed any help or guidance with anything - whether it be about schools, or just Maths in general, Vivek has always been available to offer me guidance and he’s been extremely supportive.”

Our team of tutors would like to wish the best of luck to all our students who are opening those envelopes tomorrow morning – we hope all your hard work will bring its rewards!

As every year, our team of tutors will be waiting to hear from their students with great anticipation. We would like to invite our Year 13 students to share their results with us on Thursday, 15th August at 10:30am-11:30am at the Trefoil office.

Should you need any advice, or if you have a moment to share your results with us, please do give our office a call on 0203 565 0539 – we would love to hear from you!

In anticipation of Results Day, our lead tutor Vivek Gathani would like to share with you a few tips about how to prepare for it, and what to do if your results turn out to be better or worse than you had expected:

We are delighted to be sharing the 2023 / 2024 End of Year Newsletter with you. Inside, you will find a summary of the year from each of our Senior Leadership Team, our English, Maths and Science Summer Projects, information about registration for the next academic year as well as highlights from both our social media pages and your feedback.

You can download the newsletter here: https://shorturl.at/fDoYE

If you are interested in receiving our newsletter but have not yet subscribed please do so here: https://trefoiltutors.co.uk/newsletter/

We hope you enjoy reading and have a restful summer break!

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.

“Vivek has been a brilliant Maths tutor for both of our children. I think that he’s got a very good style of teaching. The way Vivek explains new concepts to the children is very easy to understand. We have been fortunate enough to see some of his lesson videos via the portal and the way that he explains things makes it feasible for us to understand as well. I think that he’s got a very good connection with the children, they find him funny and entertaining as well, which helps their enjoyment.”

After a well-deserved break for the Summer, we are delighted to welcome students back into the classroom for the start of Summer Lessons at Trefoil Tutors. Today, we will re-open our doors to over 50 students who will be completing our three-week Summer Lessons course before they go back to school in September.

At Trefoil Tutors, we aim to provide our students with the knowledge and skills to excel in their education. This course is a continuation of our lessons for students who are entering Years 5, 6, 12 and 13 and studying Mathematics, English, Reasoning and Further Mathematics at Trefoil Tutors.

All other students will be returning on Monday, the 9th of September.

We are delighted to remind parents that the Summer Lessons for students who have completed Years 4, 5, 11 and 12 will begin on Monday, 12th August next week.

This three-week extension of our teaching course is designed to help students avoid academic regression that often sets in during longer holidays, and to continue working through the course in preparation for the upcoming academic year, with particular attention to supporting those of our students who are on the cusp of crucial examinations.

We look forward to seeing you back in our classrooms!

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.

We are delighted to have registered over 270 students who have already booked their places in 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 currently available places on our website: https://www.trefoiltutors.co.uk/availability/

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!

The Summer Holidays are an excellent opportunity for students to pursue their reading interests without the constraints of a usual school timetable.

In order to encourage students to explore different authors, styles and genres, as well as help them develop a love of literature, our Lead English Tutor Milda has compiled a list of twelve book recommendations for each year group from Year 3 to Year 11. The books on the list range from timeless classics to recent releases.

As they go through the list, students will become familiar with the work of world-famous writers and meet iconic book characters.

To download the Recommended Reading List, please follow the link below for your Year Group:

Year 3: https://bit.ly/3VfnhyX

Year 4: https://bit.ly/3rKN6Jm

Year 5: https://bit.ly/3fSHDNX

Year 6: https://bit.ly/3VfnuSs

Year 7: https://bit.ly/3VnU0SK

Year 8: https://bit.ly/3RNBTSW

Year 9: https://bit.ly/3MvOUQp

Year 10: https://bit.ly/3Mi6Y07

Year 11: https://bit.ly/3CHBP2O

We hope that students will explore these not only during the Summer Holidays, but also throughout the academic year!

Many of the books on the list are available to borrow from our office library. Please speak to our English tutors Kishan and Milda if you are looking for a specific title.

Happy reading!