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Trefoil Tutors are looking to employ a part-time Academic Assistant to join our growing team starting in May 2023.

The Academic Assistant will support the Tutor Team by collating and reviewing academic aspiration data and keeping our selective school information up-to-date. They will also be responsible for marking mathematics assignments for Key Stage 2 and 3. Work will vary week to week throughout the term, providing an engaging role.

In this week's Senior Tutor Update video, Vivek celebrates the one-year anniversary of Chris and Michael joining the tutor team. Vivek reminds students to bring their water bottles to lessons and to ensure that mobile phones are kept in pockets whilst on site.

We hope you are enjoying the Bank Holiday weekend! We would like to remind parents that all lessons today will run according to the usual timetable - we look forward to seeing you this afternoon!

With the 11+ entrance examinations fast approaching, we are delighted to confirm the dates of our Mathematics, English and Reasoning mock examinations that will take place in the coming months.

The mock examinations are modelled on 11+ entrance examination papers to Grammar and Independent Schools in the area. The August and September mock examinations are modelled on 11+ entrance papers to North London Grammar Schools and schools that are part of the South West Consortium, while the mock examinations that take place in October, November and December are modelled on 11+ entrance papers to Independent Schools in the North London area.

With exam season on the horizon, Year 11 and Year 13 students are in the final stages of preparing for their GCSE and A Level examinations. This can be an incredibly stressful time for not only students but also their parents and it can often be challenging to strike the right balance between revision and respite in the coming weeks. To help support revision in our respective subjects, the Lead Tutors at Trefoil Tutors have written subject-specific advice for all of our students outlining how to best prepare for their upcoming examinations. This should act as a guide and help both reinforce and build upon the strategies already being used to ensure academic success. We hope students will find this a useful resource in structuring their revision time and tailoring their revision approach in order to prepare for the upcoming examinations.

Wishing all our students well during this revision period!

The Oxford University Mathematics Festival takes place on the weekend of Saturday, 13th May and Sunday, 14th May.

This festival was first held in 2018 after undergraduates who had attended the Ireland Maths Week were inspired to organise something similar in their community. This year will mark the festival’s 5th anniversary!

As we begin the Summer Term, it is often a time when many of our students find themselves wearing their cricket whites, hauling their gigantic cricket bags into the car and knocking-in bats, ready for another exciting cricket season. We thought it would be a good time to share this "little ripper" from The Cricketer, to add a little extra competition to those Saturday afternoons in the field!

The Junior Mathematics Challenge begins today, with Year 7 and Year 8 students competing for gold, silver and bronze certificates across the country.

This challenge, created by The United Kingdom Mathematics Trust is intended to encourage mathematical reasoning, precision of thought, and fluency in using basic mathematical techniques to solve interesting problems. The problems on the Junior Mathematical Challenge are designed to make students think. Most are accessible, yet still challenge those with more experience.

On Sunday, 23rd April, our Director and Senior Tutor, Vivek Gathani, successfully completed the London Marathon for the second time raising money for the NSPCC!

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.

The Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award is given annually to a person or organisation for their outstanding contribution to children’s and young adult literature.

The recipient of the 2023 Award is New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author Laurie Halse Anderson, one of America’s foremost writers for young adults. Her memoir-in-verse SHOUT - released in 2019 - was named a Best Book of the Year by TIME and NPR. Her titles also include Speak, Wintergirls and The Impossible Knife of Memory.

Eid Mubarak!

From all of us at Trefoil, we would like to wish you all a generous and happy Eid al-Fitr!

With the tumultuous months of 11+ entrance examinations now behind us, we are thrilled to celebrate and share with you an overview of Grammar and Independent School offers that our students received this year. We are incredibly proud of this year’s cohort of students - not only for having persevered with their preparations but also for having received a truly outstanding set of offers from Grammar and Independent Schools.

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.

In this week's Senior Tutor Update video, Vivek begins by hoping that students, parents, tutors and the office team took on his advice to use the Easter Break to decompress and relax. Equally, Vivek reminds students to complete the holiday work if they have not done so yet and to organise their files ready for the first lesson of the Term, Vivek encourages us all to keep the excellent momentum from the first two terms going as we enter the final term of the academic year. The Summer Term is filled with distraction, be that sports days, music concerts and residential trips and, although it's important to partake in these, it's equally important it doesn't come at the cost of the our contact time. With this in mind, Vivek remind students to keep up their good practices in the push for both internal and external examinations. The time and effort invested in this term will undoubtedly pay off in both the short and long term. Finally, Vivek draws similarity between the academic year and running a marathon; remember it is an 18 mile warm up followed by an 8 mile race.

We are delighted to be sharing the Spring Term newsletter with you. Inside, you will find a summary from each of our Senior Leadership Team, subject specific revision advice, information about registration for the next academic year, this year's 11+ entrance results as well as highlights from our social media pages.

Happy reading!

From all of us at Trefoil, we would like to wish you a Happy Vaisakhi!

In order to help students practise little and often during their holidays and keep academic regression at bay, our Mathematics, Further Mathematics, English and Science tutors Vivek, Chris, Milda and Rebecca have prepared a set of holiday work assignments. Based on the material covered throughout the Spring 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.

To access the holiday work assignments and answers, please follow the link below: https://www.trefoiltutors.co.uk/free-holiday-materials/