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Did you know that November is the month to read more non-fiction?

As part of the National Non-Fiction Month, children are invited to create their own postcard and win a selection of non-fiction books.

From all of us at Trefoil, we would like to wish you a peaceful All Saints’ Day.

From all of us at Trefoil, we would like to wish you a very spooky Halloween!

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 hope that all our students and their parents enjoyed a relaxing Half Term break. Today, Monday, the 30th of October, we resume the Autumn Term and welcome all our students back to our group lessons.

We look forward to seeing you all in our classrooms this week!

As our current Year 6 students near the final - albeit the most crucial - period of their 11+ journey, on Monday, 16th October, we held an 11+ Advice Evening for the parents of our Year 4 and Year 5 students who are embarking on their 11+ journeys now.

We would like to thank the parents who attended the Advice Evening - it was a pleasure seeing so many parents of our Year 4 and Year 5 students gathered at Trefoil Tutors for the first event we organised this term!

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.

To support our students' preparations for their 11+ examinations, our Lead Mathematics Tutor, Vivek Gathani, would like to share a selection of problem-solving questions with answers he has written for his students.

Parents often enquire about practice questions similar in type and difficulty to those found towards the middle and end of Independent School papers. The sets of questions Vivek has prepared pick up on techniques we teach our students in lessons in the run-up to these examinations. We thought it may be beneficial to share these with the wider community.

To access the problem solving questions and the corresponding answers, please follow the link below:

As we begin our October Half Term break, we know that parents may be looking for engaging and interactive ways to keep their children entertained over the holidays. Below are ten activities we recommend for a fun and educational Half Term break.

The Autumn Holidays are an excellent opportunity for students to pursue their reading interests without the constraints of a usual school timetable.

In order to encourage students to explore different authors, styles and genres, as well as help them develop a love of literature, our Lead English Tutor Milda has compiled a list of twelve book recommendations for each year group from Year 3 to Year 11. The books on the list range from timeless classics to recent releases.

As we complete the first Half Term of the academic year, we are delighted to see students begin to establish good routines in their learning. In order to help students practise little and often during their holidays in an attempt to keep academic regression at bay, our Lead Mathematics, English and Science tutors have prepared a set of holiday work for each year group, which is now available on our website.

On Monday, 16th October, we held our third set of English, Reasoning and Mathematics 11+ mock examinations for students preparing to sit Independent School entrance examinations at the end of this year and in January 2024.

Thank you to all those who attended - we hope you found the practice useful!

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.

After a successful first six lessons, our Half Term Break begins today, with no group lessons taking place between the 16th and the 29th October. Lessons will resume on the week commencing Monday, 30th of October.

The Trefoil Tutors office is closed for the Half Term break from Monday, 16th October to Sunday, 29th October. Throughout these two weeks, we will be operating with a skeleton staff only; our team will be intermittently checking our email inboxes for any urgent queries.

We hope you have a relaxing break!

We are delighted to remind parents that this academic year, we continue to offer the full-year booking discount of £100 until the end of the first Half Term, on Sunday, the 15th of October.

So far, 23% parents have booked their child's place in the group lessons for the full academic year and have received the £100 discount (for students attending 36 lessons throughout the year).

Students in Year 11 and Year 13 will be attending a smaller number of lessons throughout the year; therefore, their discount is calculated pro-rata.

If you would like to use the full-year payment discount, please contact our Registrar, Esther, at registrar@trefoiltutors.co.uk, who will then send you a revised invoice.

For the discount to apply, we must receive your full year payment by 5pm on Sunday, the 15th of October.

For more information, please contact us on 0203 565 0539 or at registrar@trefoiltutors.co.uk

This October, November and December we will be running English, Mathematics and Reasoning mock examinations for 11+ students preparing for Grammar and Independent School examinations in October 2023, November 2023, December 2023 and January 2024.

The mocks will take place at our premises in Elstree (5 Theobald Court, Theobald Street, WD6 4RN), with the following availability: https://www.trefoiltutors.co.uk/mock-examinations/.

We would like to remind all parents and students that this is the last week of lessons before the October Half Term break, with no lessons taking place between Monday, the 16th of October and Sunday, the 29th of October.

Additionally, as students prepare for their final lesson of the Half Term, we would like to remind everyone to thoroughly review classwork notes and homework assignments in preparation for the Week 6 assessments.

The 2023 Prize for Economic Sciences has been awarded to the remarkable Laureate Claudia Goldin. Her groundbreaking research, reviewing over two centuries of data within the US, has shed light on the reasons behind wage and employment disparities between men and women and how these patterns have evolved over time.

If you're as curious about this groundbreaking work, you can delve into the details here: https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel-prize-lessons-economic-sciences-2023/

This marks the final Nobel Prize award of 2023, celebrating the incredible achievements of these outstanding individuals. We're especially thrilled to share this with our students, as we firmly believe that many of you have the potential to achieve similarly extraordinary feats in the future.

Let these brilliant minds be your inspiration , igniting your passion and propelling you towards greatness.