Mrs Hoadley's Home Tutoring

Mrs Hoadley's Home Tutoring Qualified teacher (PGCE and QTS) offering Maths and English tuition. Specialist in Neurodiversity.

After injury halted my rugby career, I turned to coaching, which led to teaching. As a qualified teacher, I am passionate about pushing pupils to be the best they can be. Mistakes are great, they show that we are learning, but it's how we respond that really shows our mindset. Pupils are encouraged to challenge themselves, and not give up when they find something difficult. As a tutor, I love encouraging pupils to grow not only in their academic ability, but also their approach to learning. Teaching them 'how to fish' will improve their independent learning for life.

13/03/2024

One of my pupils had a maths test at school last week where she scored 73%, which is up from 52% from her last test! I'm so pleased with her work ethic and commitment, it has clearly paid off :).

Looking at different ways of saying 'said' to make speech more interesting.
27/02/2024

Looking at different ways of saying 'said' to make speech more interesting.

With great excitement, we learnt about fronted adverbials to add more information and variety to our sentences. I used o...
12/02/2024

With great excitement, we learnt about fronted adverbials to add more information and variety to our sentences. I used one in the sentence above, can you spot it? Notice that they always have a comma when used at the start of a sentence.

Jumping in on social media trends to keep my young teenagers engaged... Tell Me Without Telling Me. Instead of writing d...
30/01/2024

Jumping in on social media trends to keep my young teenagers engaged... Tell Me Without Telling Me. Instead of writing directly how a character may be feeling, we can create stronger imagery by using implicit language describing the person instead. For example, instead of saying:
'He was scared as he hid...'
you could say:
'His heart pounded in his chest as he hid...'

A great activity to start being able to count in 5s. Lots of kinaesthetic learning to help with memory retention and und...
16/01/2024

A great activity to start being able to count in 5s. Lots of kinaesthetic learning to help with memory retention and understanding. We also played a game where I would write or say a number, and he had an action to complete depending on which times table it was in:

5x table only he had to do a star jump,
10x table only he had to put his hands on his head,
both 5x and 10x he had to spin around,
neither 5x nor 10x he had to sit down.

Strangely, he never had to put his hands on his head, can you work out why?

A group starter activity of matching literary devices with their definitions. Definitely more fun than just writing out ...
09/01/2024

A group starter activity of matching literary devices with their definitions. Definitely more fun than just writing out the definitions, and a good way to engage as a team. They then produced some brilliant paragraphs analysing Aldous Huxley's 'Panic', and were able to use quotations from the poem to back up their ideas.

Some algebra to kick off the new year. A good way to combat the post Christmas slump too!
08/01/2024

Some algebra to kick off the new year. A good way to combat the post Christmas slump too!

Breaking down some factor trees. There are other ways to divide 48 by and still get the same answer, which way would you...
21/12/2023

Breaking down some factor trees. There are other ways to divide 48 by and still get the same answer, which way would you do?

Teaching new vocabulary (complete with meanings and spellings) can be a fun activity. We use little pictures (among othe...
15/12/2023

Teaching new vocabulary (complete with meanings and spellings) can be a fun activity. We use little pictures (among other techniques) to help remember what the word means, and in this example she was able to write all of these from memory. This pupil is only Year 1, but always rises to the challenge.

I never go tutoring without my trusty whiteboard and pens. Whatever the subject, it can always be made more clear with b...
11/12/2023

I never go tutoring without my trusty whiteboard and pens. Whatever the subject, it can always be made more clear with bright colours!

25/11/2023

Reading is a vital part of developing a child's vocabulary, imagination, and focus. Fostering a love of reading from a young age can stop this feeling like a chore, and instead be something they want to do. Building it up as part of a routine (for example every day before bed) is a good way to guarantee exposure regularly.

Even babies reap the benefits of being read to at an early age. It's never too early to start! Here is my daughter sharing a lovely bonding time with Dad ❤️.

A colourful way to practice number bonds to 10. It doesn't matter which way round the numbers are added, they still make...
23/11/2023

A colourful way to practice number bonds to 10. It doesn't matter which way round the numbers are added, they still make 10!

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Wednesday 9am - 8pm
Thursday 9am - 8pm
Friday 9am - 8pm
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