Are you counting the days until the holidays? I suspect your children are – and if I’m honest we are beginning the countdown too. Holidays are great. time to recharge, to spend time together and to do all the things that we are too busy for during the rest of the year. We are all […]
Choosing a tutor isn?t something we do every day. Most of us won?t even think about tutors until we need one, and for most of us that will only be once or twice in a lifetime. So how do we go about choosing a tutor for our children? Here are a few ideas. Make sure […]
With Christmas behind us and the New Year nudging its way in, our thoughts turn to resolutions. Next year will be the one when we give up a bad habit, take up a good one, learn something new. I don’t know about you but I’m not great at keeping resolutions; however that doesn’t stop me […]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-38157811 So another set have results have been published showing that our children are ‘lagging behind.’ This time it’s the Pisa (Programme for International Student Assessment) tests. These give us an international league table for maths, literacy and science and frankly our results are disappointing. Not devastating but definitely disappointing. ‘Why so?’ I hear you […]
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-38104242 The BBC tells us that: Almost a third of children in England are behind in their development when they start primary school, according to official figures for 2016. And Department for Education statistics show pupils from poorer backgrounds are more likely to be lagging in their learning, literacy and numeracy levels. The charity Save […]
and I must apologise for being quiet for so long. It’s not that we haven’t been around but we have been caught up in all sorts of admin type things, as well as going about our daily business of tutoring our young clients. A lot has been going on. Kent Test results have preoccupied many […]
Well I think we made it. East Kent Tutors has its new website up and running. There’s still a little more work to be done but we’re nearly there.
A lot of us will be going trough steep learning curves this week. New classes, new teachers, new classrooms, new subjects. No wonder there are so many yawns going round! We are no different here at EKT. Teachers never stop learning. Some of the best lessons come from our students. They are on the coal […]
Apologies to those who read this from outside the Kent Test area but this week many of us in this corner of our green and pleasant land are preoccupied with just one thing. The Test. Now, I know I have only just posted about the first day back at school – if this was handwriting […]
Well today’s the day for most of our munchkins. Back to school, back to routine, back to homework. The first week is usually exhausting as we (yes teachers too) get used to new expectations, workload, classmates and topics. It’s pretty exhausting for us parents prising our nearest and dearest out of bed for the early […]