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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.

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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.

As our current Year 6 students near the final - albeit the most crucial - period of their 11+ journey, on Monday, 17th October, we held an 11+ Advice Evening for the parents of our Year 4 and Year 5 students who are embarking on their 11+ journeys now.

We would like to thank the parents who attended the Advice Evening - it was a pleasure seeing so many parents of our Year 4 and Year 5 students gathered at Trefoil Tutors for the first event we organised this term!

In this week's Senior Tutor Update video, Vivek welcomes our students back for the second half of the Autumn Term which commences on Monday 31st October. Vivek also welcomes the almost 20 new joiners who will be starting lessons with us this week. Vivek reminds us all to make the most of the Autumn Term where the pressures of external exams are still a long way away for all but our Year 6, Year 11 and Year 13 students. Finally, Vivek reminds us all to pick up the excellent routines we were working with before the Half Term break with regards to pens, filing and corrections. With the start of the new Half Term, our Director of Operations Armine reminds parents of our parking procedures and reflects on the array of successful events we have hosted in the past weeks, including a Parents' Open Afternoon, an 11+ Parents' Advice Evening and 11+ mock examinations. Finally, Armine notes that parents should expect an email about our work experience programme in the coming days.

Trefoil Tutors is an awarding-winning tuition provider, recognised as the Best Tuition and Educational Support Provider in the South East region by UK Enterprise Awards and shortlisted by Education Investor Awards. Founded in 2011 with the aim of bringing a new level of professionalism to tutoring in North London, Trefoil Tutors provide group lessons which follow structured courses designed to support and augment the work studied in school as well as help students prepare for 11+, GCSE and A Level examinations.

At Trefoil Tutors, our lessons aim to support students starting the next challenge in their educational careers: the move from primary to secondary school, and the academic demands that come along with this shift. To facilitate a smooth transition through Key Stage 3, we offer lessons in Mathematics, Science and English; our lessons focus on consolidating knowledge learned in the earlier Key Stages, whilst preparing a solid foundation for further studies.

Currently tutoring over 330 students in the North London area, we are very proud to see that our students are achieving outstanding results. We are pleased that 100% of our surveyed parents would recommend Trefoil Tutors to a friend.

Our lesson availability is limited, with places allocated on a first-come, first-served basis. If you would like to join our lessons, we highly recommend contacting us promptly to avoid disappointment. To discuss joining our lessons, please contact our Registrar, Ruby, on registrar@trefoiltutors.co.uk or call 0203 565 0539.

We hope that all our students and their parents enjoyed a relaxing Half Term break. Today, Monday, the 31st of October, we resume the Autumn Term and welcome all our students back to our group lessons.

We are also delighted to welcome a new cohort of students joining our Year 4, Year 10 and Year 11 lessons!

We look forward to seeing you all in our classrooms this week!

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 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. 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.”

From all of us at Trefoil, we would like to wish you a very happy Diwali!

To support our students' preparations for their 11+ examinations, our Lead Mathematics Tutor, Vivek Gathani, would like to share a selection of problem-solving questions with answers he has written for his students.

Parents often enquire about practice questions similar in type and difficulty to those found towards the middle and end of Independent School papers. The sets of questions Vivek has prepared pick up on techniques we teach our students in lessons in the run-up to these examinations. We thought it may be beneficial to share these with the wider community.

To access the problem solving questions and the corresponding answers, please follow the link below:

We hope you find these useful!

The Half Term break is 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 click read more and follow the link for your Year Group.

We hope that students will explore these not only during the Half Term, 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 Lead English Tutor, Milda, if you are looking for a specific title.

Happy reading!