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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 Autumn 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 so far. 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.

In this week's Senior Tutor Update, Vivek informs parents of our updated office opening hours, the launch of bookings for end-of-term Parent Report Meetings and academic aspirations emails that are going out this week. For students, Vivek emphasises that although the Christmas Break is right within our reach, the importance of the final two weeks of term are not to be underestimated - not only for students preparing for 11+ examinations or GCSE and A Level mock examinations, but equally to all of our students who are preparing for the Week 12 assessments. Vivek encourages all to start revision early and maintain academic rigour despite the multitude of distractions the end of term throws our way!

Our Director of Accounts Milda reminds parents that our Spring Term priority registration deadline is this Friday, 2nd December. Parents looking to secure their son or daughter's place in their existing lessons should make sure to settle the due invoice before the deadline - not only do we have a waiting list in each of the year groups, we have a number of existing students who are looking to change their lesson time to a place in a group that is currently full. Finally, Milda discussed the ongoing registration for Year 3 Mathematics and English lessons, Year 4 Reasoning lessons and Year 6 Mathematics and English lessons - if parents have not yet had a chance to contact us about these available places, please do let our Registrar Ruby know sooner rather than later.

Wishing you a lovely week!

From all of us at Trefoil, we would like to wish you a very happy Saint Andrew’s Day!

Due to recent restructuring in our staffing schedule, we are updating our office opening hours. Starting on Wednesday, the 30th of November, our office hours during term-time are as follows:

Monday: 12pm–9:30pm

Tuesday: 12pm–9:30pm

Wednesday: 12pm–9:30pm

Thursday: 12pm–9:30pm

Friday: 12pm–9:30pm

Saturday: 9:30am–3:30pm

Sunday: 9:30am–9pm

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.

As we enter Week Eleven of the Autumn Term, we would like to remind Year 6 students that those attending Mathematics, English and Reasoning lessons will be sitting a 30-minute assessment in their lessons this week. Do remember to review your classwork notes and homework assignments in preparation!

On Saturday, 26th November, we held a set of 11+ mock examinations adapted to the General Paper format used at Merchant Taylors’ School in the past years.

Thank you to all those who attended - we hope you found the practice useful!

We would like to remind parents that the deadline for priority registration for Spring Term is next Friday, the 2nd of December.

Current students’ places in the group lessons are reserved until Friday, the 2nd of December; please make sure to book your place in the Spring Term before this deadline in order to secure your place.

Any places that are not booked by this date will be offered to students on the waiting list 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, Ruby, on 0203 565 0539 or email registrar@trefoiltutors.co.uk.

We look forward to hearing from you!

We are delighted that students attending weekly lessons at Trefoil Tutors can use this towards the skills section of their Duke of Edinburgh Award! If you are pursuing Duke of Edinburgh Bronze, Silver or Gold Awards, please do get in touch with your tutor and we'd be happy to complete this section for you.

With many schools hosting Parents' Evenings in the upcoming weeks, our Senior Tutor Vivek Gathani comments on his time as a school teacher and shares useful advice on how to approach and make the most of the conversations with your child's teachers.

We would like to wish the best of luck to all our 11+ students sitting the first round of entrance examinations for St Paul’s Girls’ School today, and to all our 11+ students sitting entrance examinations for Westminster School between today and Friday, 25th November!

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.

In this week's Senior Tutor Update Video, Vivek highlights the need for us to focus on maintaining our confidence, energy and motivation levels. Vivek reminds parents that we only see a 90-minute window of the students' week and this window is usually filled with excitement and engagement, therefore it is important that parents keep an eye on the students' energy levels overall to avoid burnout. Vivek reminds us of the phrase "Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time" - this week may be an opportune time to book in that treat rather than waiting until the Christmas break. Vivek reminds students about the return of double the amount of work this week and emphasises how important it is to complete corrections diligently with the tutors' help. Vivek informs parents that invoices for registration for the Spring Term have been sent out last week. Looking ahead, the final tranche of 11+ past papers for Year 6 students, and request for updates regarding academic aspirations for students in Years 11 and 13 will be sent out in Week 10. Parent report booking emails will then be sent out in Week 11 as usual. Finally, Vivek thanks parents for their positive replies to our request for work experience places for our students.

We would like to take this day to celebrate the important men in our lives! Not only is November Men’s Mental Health Awareness Month, but today is International Men’s Day.

The theme of this year’s International Men’s Day is “Helping Men and Boys”; the focus is to celebrate worldwide the positive value men bring to the world, their families and communities, and to highlight positive role models and raise awareness of men’s well-being.

We would like to remind parents of our current students that priority registration for the Spring Term has now begun.

As always, in order to help ensure continuity of teaching and learning, we would like to give priority to students already attending the lessons to book their place in the upcoming term before we offer any available places to pupils on our waiting list.

Current students' places in the group lessons are reserved until Friday, the 2nd of December; please make sure to book your place in the Spring Term before this deadline in order to secure your place.

We would like to wish the best of luck to all our 11+ students sitting the entrance examinations for John Lyon School between today and Monday, 28th November!

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.

In this week's Senior Tutor Update, Vivek highlights the fact that the Trefoil team are already beginning their preparations for the final few weeks of term before we wrap up for the Christmas break as our term ends on the 11th of December. Vivek also reminds students of the benefits of attending lessons in person rather than calling in remotely and encourages them to come to lessons face-to-face whenever possible. If attending remotely, Vivek reminds students of four key tips to make the most of online learning. Finally, Vivek notes that priority registration invoices for the Spring Term will be sent this week.

Anti-Bullying Week 2022 is coordinated by the Anti-Bullying Alliance. It will take place from 14th to 18th November 2022 and has the theme “Reach Out”.

The week will kick off with Odd Socks Day on Monday 14th November, where adults and children wear odd socks to celebrate what makes us all unique.

#AntiBullyingWeek

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In this week's Senior Tutor Update, Vivek congratulates tutees and their parents for maintaining such a high attendance rate to lessons despite the earlier nights and the deteriorating weather. Vivek reminds parents that students can attend lessons virtually if needed, but requests that we are informed at least 24 hours before the lesson in order to ensure that marked work can be scanned in and uploaded onto the portal. Vivek informs parents that they will have received an email regarding a potential work experience programme at Trefoil, the three job vacancies at Trefoil and a request for the 11+ Grammar School results. Finally, Vivek informs parents that the next round of academic monitoring has taken place and parents may be receiving an email regarding their child's assessment score from Week 6.