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The Junior Mathematics Challenge begins today, with Year 7 and Year 8 students competing for gold, silver and bronze certificates across the country.

This challenge, created by The United Kingdom Mathematics Trust is intended to encourage mathematical reasoning, precision of thought, and fluency in using basic mathematical techniques to solve interesting problems. The problems on the Junior Mathematical Challenge are designed to make students think. Most are accessible, yet still challenge those with more experience.

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.

On Sunday, 23rd April, our Director and Senior Tutor, Vivek Gathani, successfully completed the London Marathon for the second time raising money for the NSPCC!

Eid Mubarak!

From all of us at Trefoil, we would like to wish you all a generous and happy Eid al-Fitr!

The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award is given annually to a person or organisation for their outstanding contribution to children’s and young adult literature.

The recipient of the 2023 Award is New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson, one of America’s foremost writers for young adults. Her memoir-in-verse SHOUT - released in 2019 - was named a Best Book of the Year by TIME and NPR. Her titles also include Speak, Wintergirls and The Impossible Knife of Memory.

With the tumultuous months of 11+ entrance examinations now behind us, we are thrilled to celebrate and share with you an overview of Grammar and Independent School offers that our students received this year. We are incredibly proud of this year’s cohort of students - not only for having persevered with their preparations but also for having received a truly outstanding set of offers from Grammar and Independent Schools.

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.

In this week's Senior Tutor Update video, Vivek begins by hoping that students, parents, tutors and the office team took on his advice to use the Easter Break to decompress and relax. Equally, Vivek reminds students to complete the holiday work if they have not done so yet and to organise their files ready for the first lesson of the Term, Vivek encourages us all to keep the excellent momentum from the first two terms going as we enter the final term of the academic year. The Summer Term is filled with distraction, be that sports days, music concerts and residential trips and, although it's important to partake in these, it's equally important it doesn't come at the cost of the our contact time. With this in mind, Vivek remind students to keep up their good practices in the push for both internal and external examinations. The time and effort invested in this term will undoubtedly pay off in both the short and long term. Finally, Vivek draws similarity between the academic year and running a marathon; remember it is an 18 mile warm up followed by an 8 mile race.

We are delighted to be sharing the Spring Term newsletter with you. Inside, you will find a summary from each of our Senior Leadership Team, subject specific revision advice, information about registration for the next academic year, this year's 11+ entrance results as well as highlights from our social media pages.

Happy reading!

From all of us at Trefoil, we would like to wish you a Happy Vaisakhi!

In order to help students practise little and often during their holidays and keep academic regression at bay, our Mathematics, Further Mathematics, English and Science tutors Vivek, Chris, Milda and Rebecca have prepared a set of holiday work assignments. Based on the material covered throughout the Spring Term, the assignments are a great way to help students review the topics from the term just gone as well as make a running start for the term to come.

To access the holiday work assignments and answers, please follow the link below: https://www.trefoiltutors.co.uk/free-holiday-materials/

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.

Today we celebrate International Children’s Book Day!

International Children's Book Day is a yearly event sponsored by the International Board on Books for Young People (IBBY), an international non-profit organisation. Founded in 1967, the day is observed on or around Hans Christian Andersen’s birthday, 2nd April. Andersen is most famous for writing over 156 fairy tales in his lifetime. His original tales include The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Little Mermaid, The Princess and the Pea, The Ugly Duckling and Thumbelina.

This year’s chosen theme is ‘I am a book, read me’.

Every year on 1st April, April Fool’s Day is celebrated in many countries around the world. On this day, people traditionally play practical jokes on each other and have fun trying to make other people believe things that are not true.

In the UK, jokes and tricks can be played up until 12pm on 1st April. After midday, it's considered bad luck to play a trick.

From all of us at Trefoil, we hope you enjoy April Fool’s Day and be prepared for any surprises!

The John Locke Institute is holding their annual essay competition and registration opens today, 1st April.

Open to students aged between 14 and 18, the competition encourages young people to cultivate the characteristics that turn good students into great writers: independent thought, depth of knowledge, clear reasoning, critical analysis and persuasive style. The competition invites students to explore a wide range of challenging and interesting questions in seven subjects: Philosophy, Politics, Economics, History, Psychology, Theology and Law. There is also a Junior Prize, available for students aged 14 and under.

We are now pleased to offer the final available places in the Summer Term to students who are on our waiting list as well as those who are getting in touch with us for the first time. If you feel that your son or daughter would benefit from specialist tuition in Mathematics, Further Mathematics, English, Reasoning, Science, Biology, Chemistry or Economics, please do get in touch.

For an update on the current availability in our lessons, please visit our website: https://www.trefoiltutors.co.uk/availability/

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 would like to remind students and parents that this is the final week of group lessons before we begin our Easter break. The Spring Term ends on Sunday, the 2nd of April. After the break, all group lessons will resume on Monday, the 17th of April with the exception of Mathematics lessons with Vivek and English lessons with Milda that will resume a day earlier, on Sunday, the 16th of April.

We look forward to seeing everyone for their final lessons this Term!