Grow With Confidence Tutoring

02/09/2026

Thinking of all children in this area and further afield as they return to school. Every new school year may bring new anxieties or apprehension about new routines, new adults or being out of touch with learning.
There will be a time to ‘get back into it’ but it will come and there will be grace in this expected period of re-adjustment.

As for me, I started back yesterday (although was working most of the summer) and am loving hearing about everyone’s summer highlights! 🕶️☀️ I have a busy term ahead! 😊

30/08/2026

30/08/2026

Learning is a little bit like a canal boat. You move along steadily and slowly but then you look back and see you made quite a bit of progress. This summer, our routes hit a low level of water, locks were closed and we had to re-route, go back on ourselves and try a different route instead.

Celebrate the progress as it comes, keep re-visiting and practising skills so it embeds in the long term memory; if an approach is not working, we try something different. This is much of what you can expect in my sessions and I try to make them fun and engaging as children are putting in the overtime, after all!

22/06/2026

I have had to think outside the box today to keep my students cool.
☀️We took learning to an air conditioned cafe.
☀️I shared reading in a garden with basketball challenges in between.
☀️I included water play in my after school sessions - dipping for phonic sounds, fishing for tenses and matching to the relevant verb phrases, water fun to identify the sound they hear.
☀️ More active work to make a mind map with post it’s of Macbeth characters and their power relationships.

05/06/2026

What I love the most about teaching is seeing students gain confidence in their knowledge, secondly I love gaining new knowledge myself.

This week, my greatest new skill was learning to create an animation through coding in Scratch, following a student’s interests.

What new skill would you like to learn or get better at?