Why Get A Tutor?
For some children a tutor is essential as they are off school with a long-term health problem. Occasionally, families who are travelling for an extended period take a tutor with them to keep junior’s brain ticking over. Others need someone to maintain schoolwork during a difficult period – an exclusion or a family break-up. School-aged film stars have their own tutors who keep them up to speed in between takes.
Tony Blair supplemented all his children’s state school education with a bit of home help.
But when, and how, should you give your child a helping hand?
For some children a tutor is essential as they are off school with a long-term health problem. Occasionally, families who are travelling for an extended period take a tutor with them...
Safety first
There are well-established checks that all reputable tutor agencies will make on anyone they take on as a tutor. The most thorough and mostly widely used check is ‘enhanced...
‘A bunch of committed teachers who have organised themselves into a sort of collegiate collective. They’re in it for the enjoyment of the thing.’
Run...
This section covers tutor agencies that actually know their tutors personally, ie they meet and interview them and keep in close touch.
We have visited and had extensive consultation...
Confident, relaxed ‘average’ children perform far better than brilliant, anxious ones.
As parents, all we can give our children is opportunities and support....
Pro test or protest?
Eton started it, now they've been followed by Marlborough, Wellington and getting on for a dozen others. What are they after - precocious sophistication or just...
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