Sowing Seeds Tuition and Wellbeing

Sowing Seeds Tuition and Wellbeing

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Award-Winning Ofsted-Registered Out of Hours Wraparound Childcare & Tuition Centre for ages 3-18. Small Group & Online.Functional Skills&GCSE tuition.

Non-School AP, with specialist team supporting all learning styles and neurodivergent needs. Award Winner in Bradford Means Business Awards 2024
Winner of Highly Commended Award for Community Engagement in Bradford Education Awards 2023
Ofsted registered childcare provider
Team of over 40 tutors delivering small group and 1-2-1 tuition
Offer online, face-to-face in our centre and home tuition
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19/08/2026

🌙 To all our GCSE students (and our parents) on the night before Results Day…

We know tonight might feel like a long one. And tomorrow morning will feel very daunting as it approaches.

There may be nerves, excitement, worry, pride and lots of “what ifs?” For parents and carers, it can be just as emotional. You’ve watched your child work hard, overcome challenges, doubt themselves, keep going and, for many of our young people, face barriers that others may never fully understand.

So tonight, we want you to remember something really important:

Tomorrow’s results are just one moment in time. They do not define your child, their ability, their potential or their future. We also know that some children won’t have this experience tomorrow and that it will happen if or when they are ready (and we are here to help if needed)💚

A grade cannot measure resilience.
It cannot measure kindness.
It cannot show how much courage it took to walk into an exam room or even being able to open that envelope to read those results.
It cannot capture the progress made simply by re-engaging with education, believing in yourself again or refusing to give up.

Whatever is written on that piece of paper tomorrow, there will always be a next step and another pathway. Open it on your own, when you get home, with you family or with your friends. It’s your moment to choose and every person shows their nerves in their own way

To our students: we are already incredibly proud of how far you have come. Tomorrow is about recognising what you have achieved, not measuring your worth by a number.

And to our parents and carers: whatever tomorrow brings, celebrate how far they have come and know we are here if you need to chat . ❤️

From all of us at Sowing Seeds, we wish every young person receiving their GCSE results and resit results tomorrow the very best of luck. 🍀🌱

You are so much more than your results. This is one moment in your story, not the whole story.

Photos from Sowing Seeds Tuition and Wellbeing's post 13/08/2026

🎓 A-Level Results Day 🌱

To all our A-Level students receiving their results today, well done! 💚

Remember, one set of results doesn’t define your future. There are many different pathways to success, and the right one is the one that works for you.

At Sowing Seeds Tuition, we’re here to help young people explore your young person’s options and find the right next step - if you want to arrange a consultation, please get in touch.

You’ll also find us in the The Telegraph & Argus today!🤩 🌱

To find our more, get in touch:
📞 01274 003 011
🌐 sowingseedstuition.co.uk

Your future is still yours to shape and we’re here if you need us. 💚

26/07/2026

🌱 We’re Recruiting Part-Time English Tutors!

At Sowing Seeds, we believe that every child deserves someone who sees their potential! As our team continues to grow and we expand our personalised education packages across West Yorkshire, we’re looking for experienced, compassionate and committed English Tutors to join our incredible team (yes, everyone has reached maximum capacity!).

👋 Part-time hours available
✨ Flexible working with the option to split your hours between daytime and evening sessions, making it ideal for those looking for a role that fits around other commitments.

This is so much more than teaching English!

Our tutors work with children and young people who may have experienced barriers to education, including autism, ADHD, anxiety, EBSA, trauma, social, emotional and mental health needs, or those who simply haven’t found the right environment to flourish. We create safe, nurturing spaces where relationships come first, confidence is rebuilt and learning becomes enjoyable again. 💚

We’re looking for someone who:
💙 Is a qualified and experienced English teacher or tutor.
🌱 Believes in a personalised, child-centred approach.
🤝 Builds positive relationships with young people and their families.
✨ Understands that progress looks different for every learner.
📖 Is passionate about helping children rediscover a love of learning.
😄 Option to join our team self-employed or on a part-time contract with benefit of half price childcare when tutoring between 4-6pm weekdays

If you’re looking to be part of a supportive team that genuinely changes lives every day, we’d love to hear from you.🥰

To apply or find out more, please send your CV to [email protected] or message our page for an informal chat.

21/07/2026

💚💜💙 We are looking forward to welcoming even more families to our sister site this week! For children, young adults and adults with SEND, this is a safe space and haven. We were aware that we couldn’t always meet a child’s needs to keep them safe as a result of PICA, ARFID, their sensory needs requiring a specialised and controlled, calm space. So we created a new one. We are also awaiting to find out if we have additional funding to offer HAF for children with SEND as we want to be able to provide 1-2-1 and more specialised childcare in the holidays. 💙💜💚

20/07/2026

💜👋 We are excited to welcome families for our first Calm and Connect Stay and Play for children with SEND (siblings welcome) this Wednesday 9-10.30 at our wellbeing centre in Thackley! To check out all our dates and book, see the comments section with the link on our website! We will be sharing more videos of our sensory rooms (and have a scroll through our page!). You also have the option to book out our ENTIRE centre with family and friends for 90 minutes!

17/07/2026

Watch until the end…This is what learning should look and feel like! The right balance between focus and fun. The ability to tailor to children’s interests, personalities, skills and then build on that to expand on their existing knowledge!

It has been lovely to celebrate achievements as students complete another year with us and that children want to continue with us next year because they enjoy tuition and it’s so personalised to them - and they’ve made new friends along the way. If you’d like to book a trial session, please get in touch and we are also offering a 3 month summer learning package for £60 before you join us in September, which includes their first session for free when we return (this offer is also available to our existing families in the comments)! Please continue to message us or contact us over the holidays as it’s our busiest time for enquiries and our timetable is filling up (which is crazy as this was once the quietest time!😅).

Our email is [email protected] or you can call/message us on 01274 003011/07753326202
Don’t forget to check out our website if you’d like more info too. 😄

17/07/2026

🤣 Watch until the end…This is what learning should look and feel like! The right balance between focus and fun. The ability to tailor to children’s interests, personalities, skills and then build on that to expand on their existing knowledge!

It has been lovely to celebrate achievements as students complete another year with us and that children want to continue with us next year because they enjoy tuition and it’s so personalised to them - and they’ve made new friends along the way. If you’d like to book a trial session, please get in touch and we are also offering a summer learning package for £60 before you join us in September, which includes their first session for free when we return (this offer is also available to our existing families)! Please continue to message us or contact us over the holidays as it’s our busiest time for enquiries and our timetable is filling up (which is crazy as this was once the quietest time!😅).

Our email is [email protected] or you can call/message us on 01274 003011/07753326202

Photos from Sowing Seeds Tuition and Wellbeing's post 12/07/2026

🥰 We are so proud of all the performers at Footsteps Theatre School at their summer show this weekend and it’s their finale right now! On one of the hottest weekends (with a of the year (with a fan everywhere you look), they’ve shown great team spirit and had the biggest smiles throughout the shows!

My daughter Sophie has been at Footsteps since she was 18 months old. We’ve been part of the Footsteps family for 8 years and in that time they continued through COVID (and was the only human social interaction she had during lockdown with Claire and her dance friends on the screen.💙) and she has grown in confidence and found her voice - she even had a solo part this year which shows how far she has come!

Watching the show today on stage and being a chaperone, just like every year, blows me away with the talent and skill every year in all the performances. It wouldn’t be possible without Hiedi, Claire, Alana, Sophie and Mags as their teachers and the team all working behind the scenes.

One thing that really struck me this time which I’ve often taken for granted is how inclusive our dance school is - it feels like a family for students on stage - and so many children join who have lacked confidence or a sense of belonging. Even for parents, it’s where the best friendships have formed and lots of memories. 🥰

Every year, so many of us chaperone and that’s when you see the level of skill behind the scenes: that Footsteps isn’t just a theatre school delivering classes throughout the week, there’s so much more planning to really showcase and make every child shine and be their best.

Hiedi and Claire are often in the thick of preparing and then packing up after the performances and there are so many memories our children make over the show weekends which wouldn’t be possible without them.💙

And, without Footsteps, Sowing Seeds wouldn’t be where we are today (literally!) and I’m so glad many of our students have benefitted by joining Footsteps no matter their age. It’s lovely to end the year on a high and ready to celebrate 35 years in next years’ performances!!

Well done everyone and sleep well tonight!

10/07/2026

This post is poignant from a parent who recognises that the current educational pathway adopts a one-size-fits-all approach. This is why Sowing Seeds advocates for educational pathways that meet children no matter where they learn to support with tuition in the evening or daytime. This week alone, 3 students have passed Functional Skills Level 2 with us (equivalent to a GCSE Grade 4 pass!) and now means they can focus on their post-16 pathway and finish their GCSE year on a high by passing an accessible, relevant exam paper that has shown what they can achieve.

There is an increasing number of children struggling with their mental health, anxiety, overwhelm, burnout and far worse. When I left mainstream education and set up Sowing Seeds in September 2022, the statistics were alarming then and I saw first hand that something needed to change and I needed to do more to help so many children, parents and carers who felt lost. I felt lost too. Sadly, the educational system is still in the same situation and the statistics and attendance figures have declined even further.

But why?
There are so many factors I could talk about but here is one of the first indicators when I saw a shift in focus and even my love for teaching and my subject was being sucked up and I saw incredible teachers leave the profession because they could no longer teach…

In 2014, that was the year when there was a change to the exam structure, removal of tiers in English, removal of coursework, removal of diverse texts and poetry (I love my subject as an English teacher), very dull specifications;removing the accessibility of the previous English exam pathways. Teachers should feel excited when the National curriculum and pathways are revolutionised, but we were all devastated by the changes and the reaction was flat.

In 2016, Progress Buckets were introduced…just when we thought it couldn’t get any worse…and although I already felt that the focus had shifted from the personalisation of learning to becoming an exam factory (even more than before!), the measurement of certain subjects over others meant that academic subjects became a priority and results became a priority. Ticking boxes becoming a priority. Intervention became a priority. And someone in all this, the child (human that is not a machine), was forgotten. Behavioural problems started to escalate. Pressures ‘from above’ escalated. Pressure to make sure children exceeded targets became a priority otherwise it was us that became under the spot light for failing these children. But, that’s when I had a reality check and realised that the system is broken. Teachers aren’t broken. I’m not broken. But kids, parents and teachers across the country are still breaking - and broken-under this relentless pressure to comply and fit into a machine and model that is a one-size-fits-all and not designed for real children with real feelings in the 21st Century. And that’s not even considering if a child has special educational needs or a disability and difference.

This isn’t a political post. It’s a frustrated post. I created Sowing Seeds to support children’s mental health whilst in school but increasingly children are already in crisis. There is an increasing number of children who need a diagnosis because without it their needs can’t be met in the current educational model. They can be met in ours at Sowing Seeds and it is rewarding to see the glimmers and celebrate the incredible milestones and achievements of our students and parents and carers.

We are part of the change and we will be here for a long time with our experts and inclusive approaches that don’t need an educational reform to highlight what needs to change…because we exist just like so many other incredible provisions out there.

Have a lovely weekend everyone,
Rachel 💙

Online Learning Platform 09/07/2026

☀️🌍We are so excited to officially launch our exclusive summer programme!

✨ Our Summer Boost includes:
📚 English, Maths & Science
📅 3 months’ access as many times as you like (across July–October)
💷 Only £60 (really!!)

Over the past year, we’ve seen just how much our students have benefited from our personalised Online Learning Hub, so we’re delighted to offer this fantastic summer opportunity to our families and followers first.

We have tailored programmes for:
🤩 Year 4
🤩 11+ Test Ready
🤩 Year 5 Getting Ready for Year 6 SATs
🤩 Year 6 Getting Secondary Ready🤩🤩🤩🤩 Year 7 and 8
🤩 Year 9 Getting GCSE Ready
🤩 Year 10 Getting Mock and GCSe Ready
🤩 Year 11 Gettinf Ready for A Level Maths

While summer should absolutely be filled with fun, family time and making memories, a little learning can go a long way. Our programme is tailored to their ability, curriculum, exam board and tier!

From experience as teachers and Heads of Department and based on research from the Education Endowment Foundation we suggest that well-planned and flexible summer learning can help you children maintain the progress they have made this year and even make the equivalent of up to two months’ additional progress. More importantly, it helps children feel confident, prepared and ready for their next chapter.

Each subject is usually £29 per month which means you get 3 months’ access with a
a total value of £261!
💙 You save £201 (77%)!

What’s included?

✔ Personalised learning tailored to your child’s ability
✔ Tailored transition support
✔ Interactive quizzes, videos and activities
✔ Explanations in different ways to suit different learners
✔ Regular retrieval practice to build confidence
✔ Accessibility features including adjustable fonts and screen colours
✔ Access anywhere with an internet connection

🌍The best part? It fits around your summer.

Just 15–30 minutes a few times a week (or even 5-minute sessions!) can help keep learning fresh without taking away from family adventures. Your child do as much or as little as they need and it maps out their progress and any areas needing more time to cover.

👨‍👩‍👧 You also have your own login, allowing you to track progress, celebrate achievements and see how your child is developing throughout the summer!

If your child lacks motivation, we also have a number of options so that their tutor can do weekly or a monthly coaching check in.

You can secure your child’s place using the booking link:
https://forms.gle/iGGSM3yB6aczL9W46

We are glad we can be here for your child over summer too! 🌱

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