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We are very excited to announce that, following a number of enquiries from students and parents, we are starting new Economics group lessons for Year 13 students. The Economics group lessons will be run by our Economics tutor Christoph, a professional Economics teacher with three years of experience teaching at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School. Christoph holds a BSc(Econ) in Economics and an MSc in Economic History from the LSE and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts (FRSA). Prior to teaching, Christoph has spent a number of years working across different disciplines in higher education projects, teaching and learning initiatives and advocacy.

If you are interested in joining our Economics group lessons, do get in touch by phone on 0203 565 0539 or via email at office@trefoiltutors.co.uk. We look forward to hearing from you!

We would like to wish the best of luck to all our 11+ students sitting the entrance examinations to Merchant Taylors' School and St Albans Girls' School today!

Remember, you have worked diligently in your preparations - now is the time to stay calm and enjoy the experience!

All our best wishes,

The Trefoil Team

Although most GCSE candidates are not sitting their examinations for several months, today, we would like to wish the best of luck to five of our Year 11 pupils who are taking the early Mathematics IGCSE exam!

Best of luck today, gents - you have worked very hard preparing for this! Now is the time to stay calm, focused and remember the lessons learnt during your revision and practice.

All our best wishes,

The Trefoil Team

After the Christmas break, we are excited to welcome all our students back for the third set of lessons which begins on Monday, the 7th of January. We look forward to seeing you!

'With the accelerated group lessons, we move through the topics quicker than we would in school. This also helps a lot when we start the topics in school and I already know how to do it, so I find it easier. Vivek explains everything really well!'

We would like to wish the best of luck to all our 11+ students sitting the Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School entrance examinations today!

Remember, you have worked hard with your revision and practice - so that now you can stay calm and enjoy the process.

All our best wishes,

The Trefoil Team

With the start of the new year, our Year 6 students are completing their final preparations for sitting 11+ entrance examinations in the upcoming weeks. With the Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School exam taking place tomorrow, our senior tutor Vivek Gathani, a former Mathematics teacher at Haberdashers’ who used to help write and mark the 11+ entrance paper during his time at the school, has prepared a mock 11+ Mathematics paper, together with full worked answers. We are delighted to share this with you!

The paper and the worked answers can be downloaded from our Resources page:

Wishing you the best of luck in the upcoming examinations!

As students have reached the end of their first term in Year 5, 11+ examinations for grammar schools are a little over eight months away. Although this may seem like a long time, these months tend to rush by and we will soon be preparing mock exams and revision sessions.

In order to offer all our support to our Year 5 students as well as their parents, we are hosting a Year 5 Parents' Evening, where our tutors will be sharing their knowledge and experience regarding 11+ preparation.

We’ve had a great experience with Trefoil Tutors for our sons. They’ve built up a good understanding of mathematical concepts and as a result I believe they’ve improved a great deal in school, but most importantly they’ve been happy going to lessons and have comfortably managed school work and assignments set by Trefoil Tutors, so it’s been a win-win for them in every respect.

We would like to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Please note our office is closed between the 24th of December and the 1st of January (inclusive). The 3rd set of group lessons will resume on the 7th of January 2019. We look forward to seeing you all after the break!

Today we held the next set of English and Mathematics 11+ mock examinations this year for students preparing to sit independent school entrance examinations in January. Thank you to all those who attended - we hope you found the practice useful!

If you are interested in attending one of our upcoming three mock examinations this week or in the new year, please email us at office@trefoiltutors.co.uk or call 0203 565 0539 to book your place.

More information about the mocks can be found on our website:

We would like to remind all students and their parents that Set 2 of lessons is now complete and no group lessons will take place until the 7th of January (aside from the rearranged lessons this Friday). Our office will be closed between the 24th of December and the 1st of January (inclusive). Have a lovely Christmas and we look forward to seeing you next year!

My son has known Mr G since the age of 11, he was his former maths teacher at HABS. He is now a year ahead of his age [at school], and we used Mr G's lessons to help him bridge that gap, but he enjoyed the lessons so much that he's continued working with him. The lessons have given him a great deal of confidence and he’s got the belief he can achieve the top grade in maths. I asked my son what is different about the way Mr G teaches maths to the way maths is taught at school; he said Mr G has a fun way of teaching complex topics.

With most students starting their Christmas break next week, now is a great time to catch up on some reading. To help students choose their holiday read, our lead English tutor Milda has recommended a variety of books suitable for students of different ages. Bearing in mind that the Christmas break is a time to be shared with family, all the recommended books are ones that have also been turned into films - which means that the whole family can enjoy them this Christmas!

On the 8th of December, we hosted our second Professional Development Seminar as part of our Professional Development Programme for tutors. In the seminar, our senior tutor, Vivek Gathani, discussed our Code of Conduct with the tutors and analysed potential situations that may arise when working with children.

At Trefoil Tutors, tutor development and child protection are two cornerstones of the professionalism that we bring to tutoring and we were delighted that so many of our team were able to join us!

We are delighted to inform you that have recently uploaded a broad selection of 11+ resources, including past papers, to the Resources section of our website. We have labelled some of these as "holiday work" which our current students may find useful for their practice in the weeks leading up to the 11+ examinations this January.

You can find the resources here:

"My girls absolutely love coming to Trefoil, they don't like to miss the lessons. They love doing the homework and making sure that it's perfect. It's been a very good experience and I wouldn't change it for anything."

With our Year 6 students having received their grammar school 11+ entrance results, we carried out some analysis and made comparisons between these and the results students achieved in the mock independent school papers (completed at Trefoil). Our senior tutor Vivek Gathani shares his conclusions and comments on comparing the students' results across both papers as well as providing some useful tips for the Year 5 students preparing for their examinations in 2019.

To watch the video, please visit our Facebook page:

Our next video will be posted on our Facebook page on Friday, the 14th of December – do follow us in order to receive notifications about when each new video is released. If you would like to submit a question for the upcoming video, please do share it with us on our social media: