Online Tuition on Skype and Zoom

In light of the government's recent update on travel to and from places of work and following many successful sessions this week, I am now offering primary tuition exclusively online through both Skype and Zoom. An hour's tuition is just £28 or £50 for two hours a week (which may be split into two separate sessions on different days should you wish.)

Unlike mass online learning platforms, every one of my sessions is tailored to the individual needs of the student. The sessions can support learning that has been provided by your school or focus on particular areas of the curriculum you feel your child would benefit most from.

Below are two examples of fantastic sessions that have taken place this week.

Using Zoom, three home-educated students, who I normally tutor together at one parent's house, continued their English learning this week by exploring Chapter 14 of Charlotte's Web. They investigated contractions, different forms of punctuation and using the text to support opinions before writing their own character description. They also enjoyed the opportunity to discuss ideas with each other despite all being in different homes!

On Skype, two sisters successfully used multiplication by 10, 100 and 1000 to simplify division of a pair of decimals. They then applied this skill to real life scenarios.

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