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As our Sixth Form students have now received most of their offers, they face the tough decision of choosing their destinations for the next 3-4 years. This seems like an apt time to remind parents and students that our tutors are more than happy to share their advice and experience on choosing the right university or study programme.

University ratings are also very helpful when considering your options – do have a look at the updated The Times Higher Education World University Rankings: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2023/world-ranking

If there's anything we can do to help make your decision easier, please don't hesitate to get in touch!

As the deadline for Priority Registration has now passed, we are delighted to have registered over 200 students to our Mathematics, Further Mathematics, English, Reasoning, Science, Biology, Chemistry and Economics group lessons for the Summer Term.

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.

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 Spring 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.

Ramadan Mubarak!

From all of us at Trefoil, we would like to wish you all a generous and happy Ramadan.

In this week's Senior Tutor Update, Vivek reminds everyone that, although some schools are breaking up this week, at Trefoil, we have two more weeks of our Spring Term remaining. He encourages students to use this to their advantage and to begin revising for the Week 12 assessments in earnest. Vivek reminds parents that registration information has been sent out regarding registration for the Summer Term, the Summer lessons for students completing Year 4, 5, 11 and 12 and for the new academic year. Vivek emphasises the importance of returning the Declaration of Interest form. This to help assist the continuity of our lessons in our aim of delivering outstanding long-term teaching and learning as well as assisting parents in the logistics of attending lessons at Trefoil Tutors. Vivek highlights that, this week, parents will be receiving an email from the office team inviting them to book in the termly progress report meetings with their child's tutor. Finally, Vivek informs parents that he and Rebecca will be carrying out their usual academic assessment monitoring regarding the assessments that students sat in Week 9.

From all of us at Trefoil, we would like to wish all mothers and grandmothers of our students a Happy Mother’s Day! We hope you enjoy celebrating today, and feel loved and appreciated not only today but all through the year.

Today is Red Nose Day!

Millions of people in the UK celebrate this day by wearing red noses and following the live telethon hosted by Comic Relief. You can watch this year’s broadcast on BBC One and BBC Two. For the first time, AJ Odudu and Joel Dommett will host the Red Nose Day night of TV alongside Zoe Ball, Paddy McGuinness and David Tennant.

Lá Fhéile Pádraig sona duit!

From all of us at Trefoil, we would like to wish you a happy St. Patrick’s Day!

Trefoil Tutors are looking to employ a part-time Receptionist to join our growing team starting in April 2023.

The Receptionist will help liaise with students’ parents and ensure that the logistical arrangements of lessons run smoothly. The Receptionist will report to the Director of Operations. The ideal candidate will be an approachable and organised individual with attention to detail and a proactive attitude. Experience in an administrative and customer-facing role is desirable.

In this week's Senior Tutor Update, Vivek highlights that this week, students will be receiving two pieces of work in their lessons and therefore two sets of feedback will be provided by their tutor. Students are encouraged to make the most of this opportunity to review their marked work with their tutor's support in class. Vivek reminds that parents of students in Years 5, 10 and 12 will be contacted by our Director of Studies Rebecca about their most recent predicted grades and school preferences. As we enter the final weeks of the term, Vivek also emphasises that tiredness begins to take its toll on students' productivity and it is important to keep that in mind in order to finish the term successfully. Finally, we are recruiting for a number of roles at the moment and looking for a part-time Receptionist and part-time Business Development Manager to join our team.

With school strikes taking place across England today and tomorrow, we know that many students are spending the day at home and many parents are seeking high quality learning materials that would keep students engaged academically.

At Trefoil Tutors, we regularly prepare additional revision materials that are academically engaging and tailored to each year group's curriculum in Mathematics, English and Science for students between Year 3 and Year 13. We are delighted to share these free resources with you in order to help keep students engaged on a day when regular learning may not be taking place. These assignments and corresponding answers are available on our website.

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.

Every year on March 14th, Pi Day is celebrated around the world. Pi Day is observed on the 14th of March (3.14 in some dating formats). This is because 3.14 are the first three significant figures of Pi (π).

Pi Day was founded by a physicist named Larry Shaw in 1988 and mathematicians have observed the holiday ever since.

Happy Pi Day!

We would like to remind parents that the deadline for priority registration for the Summer Term and Summer Lessons is this Sunday, the 19th of March.

Current students’ places in the group lessons are reserved until Sunday, the 19th of March; please make sure to book your place before this deadline in order to secure your place.

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.

If you have not yet been in touch with us but would like your son or daughter to join our lessons, please contact our Registrar, Esther, on 0203 565 0539 or email registrar@trefoiltutors.co.uk.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Today marks the beginning of British Science Week, which ends on March 19th. The theme for 2023 is ‘Connections’.

The British Science Association has created a series of Science-related activities for children to complete. There are activity packs available to download that have been created for children in Early Years, Primary and Secondary School and for the wider Community. To access these current activity packs, as well as those from previous years, please visit their website: https://www.britishscienceweek.org/activity-packs/

One of the largest interdisciplinary festivals in the UK, the annual Cambridge Festival, runs from Friday, 17th March until Sunday, 2nd April. The festival features a mixture of over 360 online, on-demand and in-person events - most of which are free.

Coordinated by the University of Cambridge, the Festival aims to tackle some of the big questions of our age and seeks to find possible solutions. It also looks at less weighty subjects and includes an extensive series of events for children and families to enjoy.

With many schools hosting Parents' Evenings in the upcoming weeks, Vivek Gathani, Director and Senior Tutor at Trefoil Tutors reflects on his time as a school teacher and offers parents useful advice on how to approach and make the most of the conversations with your child's teachers.

Today is International Women’s Day! The theme for 2023 is to #EmbraceEquity. We hope you enjoy celebrating and appreciating the important women in your life!