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The Times Education Supplement have produced an overview of information about this year's procedure of awarding grades, appeals and resits.

With the tumultuous months of 11+ entrance examinations now behind us, we are thrilled to celebrate and share with you an overview of independent school offers that our students received this year. We are incredibly proud of this year's cohort of students - not only for having persevered with their preparations throughout a year of constant changes but also for having received a truly outstanding set of offers from independent schools.

Congratulations all and best of luck in your preparations for September!

Dear Parents,

As the Spring Term gets under way, we are delighted to welcome over 300 students to our Mathematics, English, Science and Economics lessons.

Week 3 of term brings with it the first assessment of term. In this week's video, our Senior Tutor Vivek and Director of Studies Rebecca remind students of a number techniques for effective revision.

As lockdown continues, the BBC have started broadcasting programmes based on the National Curriculum for students in Years 1-9 as well as GCSE-level students.

Educational content is broadcast on TV (BBC2 and CBeebies), via BBC iPlayer and online via BBC Bitesize.

To access the materials via BBC iPlayer, please follow the link:https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/p093cv85

Today we held the second set of English, Mathematics and Reasoning 11+ mock examinations 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 mock examinations in January, please email us at office@trefoiltutors.co.uk or call 0203 565 0539 to book your place.

Today, we held a set of tailored English, Mathematics and Reasoning 11+ mock examinations adapted to the revised exam structure of the entrance examinations for Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School, which a number of our students are going to sit this week.

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

With the 11+ entrance examinations to Independent Schools taking place in the coming months, we would like to remind parents of the final places available in the upcoming mock examinations that will take place in December and January. As we have received a great deal of interest regarding the mock examinations from students who are not attending our lessons, a large number of places in the mock examinations have already been booked.

Places are limited and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

For more information or to book your place, please call the office on 0203 565 0539 or email us at office@trefoiltutors.co.uk.

At Trefoil Tutors, we recognise the importance of maintaining an ongoing conversation between parents, tutors and students as a key factor in maintaining tutee progress and development. As a very successful Autumn Term comes to an end, we would like to invite parents to book in 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 online portal and choose a convenient date and time.

We would like to remind parents of our current students that priority registration for the Spring Term is now open and that our current students' places in the lessons are reserved until Sunday, the 6th of December. Please do make sure to book your child's place before this date to ensure continuity of lessons. 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.

With many schools hosting virtual Parents' Evenings in the upcoming weeks, our senior tutor Vivek 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.

To watch the video, please visit our Facebook page

In this week’s Senior Tutor update, Vivek highlights the importance of students completing corrections during our online lessons. He goes on to emphasise the value of managing students’ confidence, motivation and energy levels during a long half term. Additionally, our Registrar Milda reminds parents that priority registration for Spring Term is now open, with places for our current students reserved until Friday, the 4th of December. Milda emphasises that places will no longer be reserved after this deadline and will be allocated on a first-come, first-served basis.

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

In this week's Senior Tutor Update, Vivek reminds students that our lessons resume next week, on Monday, the 2nd of November. In order to ensure a strong start to the new half term, Vivek shares six important pieces of advice that students should consider before returning to lessons.

During the half-term break, many students have enquired about additional resources and past papers they could use when revising independently. Our Resources page offers students an extensive collection of GCSE and A-Level Mathematics past papers, including mark schemes, for Edexcel, OCR, and OCR MEI exam boards. We hope you find these useful in your revision!

The papers can be accessed here:
https://trefoiltutors.co.uk/resources/

In order encourage students to explore different writers, styles and genres, as well as help them develop a love of literature, our lead English tutor Milda has compiled a list of 12 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.

In this week's update, our Senior Tutor Vivek and Registrar Milda share the various activities they have pursued during the half-term holidays, encouraging students to explore their own interests and combine learning with relaxation. Milda also introduces our new Year 4 Mathematics lessons that will launch after the half-term break due to an increase in demand and reminds parents about the opportunity to use the full year payment discount (available until the 1st of November). Finally, the updated lesson schedule for the Spring Term will be published later this week, which will be of interest to those looking to join our Year 3 Mathematics and English lessons as well as our Year 4 and 5 Reasoning lessons.

Have a lovely half-term and week look forward to seeing you next week!

As we complete the first half-term of the academic year, we are delighted to see students begin to follow good routines in their learning. In order to help students practise little and often during their holidays in order to keep academic regression at bay, our lead Mathematics, English and Science tutors have prepared a set of holiday work which is now available on our website.

To access the holiday work, please follow the link: https://www.trefoiltutors.co.uk/free-holiday-materials/