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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:

We are currently registering students for the final places in our IGCSE Mathematics mock examinations tailored specifically to students sitting their exam early, in January 2019. Modelled on new specification IGCSE papers, the mock examinations are written by Vivek Gathani, our lead Mathematics tutor who is a qualified teacher with four years of experience teaching at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School and will take place during the Christmas holidays at our premises in Elstree (5 Theobald Court, Theobald Street, WD6 4RN).

Places are limited and booked on a first-come, first-served basis.

To book your place, please email us at office@trefoiltutors.co.uk or call 0203 565 0539.

The students will have the opportunity to sit a different Mathematics mock paper each day.

We are currently registering students for the final places in our English and Mathematics mock examinations which will take place during the Christmas holidays at our premises in Elstree (5 Theobald Court, Theobald Street, WD6 4RN). Places are limited and booked on a first-come, first-served basis.

To book your place, please email us at office@trefoiltutors.co.uk or call 0203 565 0539.

We would like to remind you that the 11+ mock examinations are open to all Year 6 students sitting independent exams, so students who have not previously attended our lessons are welcome to attend.

We would like to remind parents of our current students that priority registration for Set 3 of lessons is now open and that your place in the lessons is reserved until the 16th of December - please do make sure to book your child's place before this date! Any places that are not booked after this date will be offered to students on the waiting list on a first-come, first-served basis.

We are delighted that so many of our students' parents have been able to share their thoughts about their experience of using our services. Here are the impressions of one of our students' parent about attending Mathematics group lessons with our lead Mathematics tutor Vivek:

Following enquiries from a number of parents, we are delighted to inform you that during the Christmas holidays, we will be running Mathematics mock examinations for pupils who are preparing to sit their IGCSE Mathematics examinations in January 2019.

The mock examinations are modelled on new specification IGCSE papers. The Mathematics mock examination papers are written by Vivek Gathani, our lead Mathematics tutor who is a qualified teacher with four years of experience teaching at Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School.