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The Christmas Holidays are the time of year for family board games. We at Trefoil Tutors thought we would put together a list of board games that are both great fun and educational, along with a selection of our tutors’ favourite games for our tutees to try. For those with their 11 + exams on the horizon, this time of year can often be stressful for students and finding a way to practise the techniques in an interactive, non-test based format can really help students develop their reasoning skills. Whether it is problem solving, numeracy, spatial, verbal or non-verbal these are the games for you as the winter nights draw in!

We would like to sincerely thank the parents who attended the 11+ Parents' Advice Afternoon on Tuesday, 16th December - it was a pleasure seeing so many parents of our students attending the event.

We would like to wish all our students a cheerful and active Christmas break! With those dark nights stretching out and cosy winter days filled with festive potential, we thought we would share some of our favourite ways to spend the holidays, and new places that we are all looking forward to exploring!

We are delighted to share the news that starting on Monday, the 5th of January 2026, our Lead Reasoning and Science tutor Rebecca will begin teaching the Year 4 Reasoning course as part of our 11+ preparation course.

At Trefoil Tutors, we are incredibly proud of the quality of teaching and learning we deliver across a range of different subjects. In our small group lessons, our team of qualified teachers and experienced tutors aim to augment and support the work done by schools. Students are taught according to a structured scheme of work and are given weekly homework assignments and regular assessments which are all prepared in-house by our tutors, with weekly individual feedback provided to parents via our personalised online portal.

In order to help students practise little and often during their holidays and keep academic regression at bay, our lead Mathematics, English and Science tutors Vivek, Kishan and Rebecca have prepared a set of holiday work assignments. Based on the material covered throughout the Autumn Term, the assignments are a great way to help students review the topics from the term just gone as well as make a running start for the term to come.

We are delighted to share with you the positive feedback contributed by our students who have attended our group lessons and found these enjoyable and beneficial to their learning.

After a successful first term of the 2025/2026 academic year, our Christmas Break begins today, with no group lessons taking place between Monday, the 15th of December and Sunday, the 4th of January. Lessons will resume on Monday, the 5th of January.

We would like to wish you a relaxing break!

We are thrilled to invite all our students to take part in the Trefoil Christmas Writing Competition!

Open to Trefoil students from Year 3 to Year 9, this competition invites participants to craft a captivating and descriptive story depicting the journey of The Three Wise Men.

From all of us at Trefoil, we would like to wish you a very happy Hanukkah! We hope you have enjoyed celebrating with your friends and family.

Using the national curriculum as their skeleton, our Lead Tutors at @trefoiltutors have designed detailed and comprehensive schemes of work followed in our lessons. Materials are expertly prepared with notes, classwork sheets, assignment sheets and assessments to help navigate students through each Key Stage. In order to gain the full benefit of our group lessons, we recommend that students preparing for 11+ entry join our lessons starting in January of Year 3 for English and Mathematics and in September of Year 4 for Reasoning.

At Trefoil Tutors, we believe that our role extends beyond the classroom. As educators who see tutoring and teaching as a lifelong vocation, we feel that it is important to share with our parents the collective insight our tutors have gained from years of experience in the teaching profession both in and out of schools. Having supported hundreds of tutees over the years, combined with our knowledge of schools in the North London area, we hope that our advice evenings can offer practical insight into the 11+ process, making the most of secondary school, preparing for GCSEs and A Levels, applying to university and beyond.

We are delighted to share with you the positive feedback contributed by the parents of students who have attended our group lessons and found these enjoyable and beneficial to their learning.

We would like to remind students and parents that this is the final week of group lessons before we begin our Christmas break. The Autumn Term ends on Sunday, the 14th of December. After the break, all group lessons will resume on Monday, the 5th of January.

We look forward to seeing everyone for their final lessons this year!

We would like to wish the best of luck to our students who are having their Oxford interviews in the coming weeks - our fingers are firmly crossed for you!

As we enter the final week of the Autumn Term, we would like to remind students that those attending Mathematics, Further Mathematics, English, Reasoning, Science, Biology and Economics lessons will be sitting a 30-minute assessment in their lessons this week. Do remember to review your classwork notes and homework assignments in preparation!

At Trefoil Tutors, we value the importance of maintaining an ongoing conversation between parents, tutors and students as a key factor in maintaining tutee progress and development. As the Autumn Term comes to an end, we would therefore like to invite parents to book 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.

From all of us at Trefoil, we would like to wish you a very happy Saint Nicholas Day!