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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.

Today marks the beginning of British Science Week, which ends on March 16th. The theme for 2025 is ‘Change and adapt’.

The British Science Association is also holding a poster competition following the theme of ‘Change and adapt’. For further information, rules and entry requirements, please visit their website:

If you are interested in attending some virtual events during Science Week, you can find information on the following website:

As we enter Week 9 of the Spring Term, we would like to remind students that they will be sitting an assessment in their lessons this week.

Remember to follow Vivek and Rebecca’s advice in the Welcome Booklet and the Senior Tutor Update videos on how to best revise for these assessments!

Today, we celebrate World Book Day! Although it sometimes may seem that today is about fancy dress costumes rather than books, we would like to encourage our young readers to pick up a new book this week and nurture their good reading habits.

Today is Ash Wednesday. Ash Wednesday marks the beginning of Lent - a period of six weeks leading up to Easter.

Today is Shrove Tuesday - also known as Pancake Day!

Shrove Tuesday falls on the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday, which marks the beginning of Lent - a period of six weeks leading up to Easter.

Enjoy your pancakes and the countdown to Easter!

Today, primary school students who have sat 11+ entrance examinations to Grammar Schools around the country will hear whether or not they have been offered a place today.

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!

From all of us at Trefoil, we would like to wish you a happy St. David’s Day!

Ramadan Mubarak!

From all of us at Trefoil, we would like to wish you all a generous and Happy Ramadan.

We would like to remind parents of our current students that four members of the team at Trefoil Tutors, including our Director and Lead Tutors, have completed Level 3 Award First Aid Training.

We hope all our students and their parents enjoyed a relaxing February Half Term Break! We would like to remind parents that today marks the beginning of the second half of the Spring Term and all lessons will run according to the usual timetable. We are excited to welcome all our students back to our classrooms this week!

Trefoil Tutors is an award-winning tuition provider offering specialist small group tuition for Years 3 to 13, in order to augment and support the teaching that students receive in school. We are recognised as the Best Tuition and Educational Support Provider in the South East region by the UK Enterprise Awards.

You can see this academic year’s lesson timetable and current availability here:

Please find the video below:

Magdalene College Cambridge Arts and Humanities essay competition for 2025 is currently open.

To find out more about the competitions and how to apply please follow the link below:

Best of luck to those applying!

As we complete the first half of the Spring Term, we are delighted to see students continuing to follow good routines in their learning. In order to help students practise little and often during their break in order to keep academic regression at bay, our lead Mathematics, English and Science tutors Vivek, Milda and Rebecca have prepared a set of holiday work assignments.

To access the holiday work assignments and answers, please follow the link below:

The American Library Association has announced the 2025 winners of the Youth Media Awards, including the Newbery and Caldecott medals, and the Printz award.

To read more about the Young Media Awards, please visit The American Library Association’s website:

Happy reading!

We would like to wish you a Happy Valentine's Day, and hope you will spend it surrounded by your loved ones!

As we enter the final week of the Autumn Term, we would like to remind students that those attending Mathematics, Further Mathematics, English, Reasoning, Science, Biology and Economics 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!

We would like to remind students and parents that this is the final week of group lessons before our Half Term break. Please note that no group lessons will be taking place between Monday, the 17th February and Sunday, the 23rd of February as we close for the Half Term break.

Enjoy your Half Term break and we look forward to seeing you in Week 7!