STIRLING TUITION
STIRLING TUITION
One session a week from January of P6 through to the test in November — and the practice, videos and passports on the rest of this site are what my own pupils use in between.
A class of twelve is cheaper and a one-to-one is dearer, and both give something up. In twelve, I cannot see every child's working on every question, so a misconception goes home with them. In one-to-one it is a child and an adult, eye to eye, for a full hour — which is a lot for a ten-year-old, and there is nobody else in the room finding the same question hard.
Four is the number where I get round everybody several times, reading the working while it is happening rather than marking it afterwards. It is also a relaxed room. Nobody is put on the spot, there is time to sit with someone who is stuck without the rest of the group waiting, and a child who sees three others pause at the same question stops thinking it is only them. That does more for confidence than anything I can say.
Groups start in January of P6 and run to the end of the SEAG assessments in November — the best part of two school years. That length is deliberate: the whole method depends on skills coming back again and again on a spaced timetable, and you cannot space anything into six weeks. Children who join in September of P7 are revising. Children who start in P6 are learning it once, properly, and then keeping it.
There are groups across the week, including Saturdays, so it usually works around clubs and the rest of family life. Ring and we will find the slot that fits.
I am generally full each year, with a waiting list — so the honest answer is that it is worth ringing well before January, and worth ringing even when I am full, because places do come free. I would rather tell you straight than take a name and leave you waiting on an email.
Most parents would rather ask three questions on the phone than read a page, and that is completely fair. Ring and ask — if I am full I will say so.
07743 437053January of P6. That is when the groups begin, and it gives nearly two years for everything to come back round often enough to stick. Starting later is possible if there is a place, but it becomes revision rather than teaching.
Usually I am full, with a waiting list — but places come free more often than you would think, and the list moves. Ring and I will tell you exactly where things stand rather than leaving you guessing.
It happens — illness, holidays, a clash with a club. The material carries on, and because every skill comes back round on a spaced timetable, a missed week is not a missed topic. The daily ten at home covers the gap.
No. The papers, the worked videos, the practice and the passports are all part of it and all on this site. Bring a pencil and the folder.