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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 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 2024/2025 academic year:

As students across the country return to school this week, we would like to wish everyone a positive start to the new academic year. May it foster your love of learning and inspire you to explore all the opportunities school life offers - be it Year 1 or Year 13!

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 Trefoil is interesting because it is very easy to interact with Trefoil. Many parents, including myself, go through periods where we are very, very busy, and Trefoil has an online portal which is very easy to interact with. There are regular emails to tell you if there has been an update on the portal for the attention of parents so you can log in at your convenience and get an understanding of how your child is performing. You can also look back historically to understand how your child was doing and where they have improved, and where they may have slightly fallen away and expect to see improvements in the future. What I really like about it is that it’s non-intrusive, so you can interact with it in your own time, you don’t have to have a parents’ evening like you do at school. It’s a very, very suitable tool and environment for interacting with this extracurricular tutoring.”

After a summer of preparations, today, our team is thrilled to launch the new academic year at Trefoil Tutors.

We are delighted to welcome back our students from last year and greet new students joining us for the first time. Over the next seven days, we will see 300 students attending their first lessons in Mathematics, Further Mathematics, English, Reasoning, Science and Chemistry.

We look forward to working with you and wish you all an enjoyable and rewarding academic year!

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 South West Hertfordshire Consortium Schools 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 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!

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 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.

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.”