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🌸 Qualified Primary Teacher
🌸 Reception–Year 6 Tuition
🌸 Harrogate | Primary ed |Home ed | 1:1 |Small groups
🌸 Phonics • Reading • Writing • Maths

07/10/2026

Parents’ evening is a great opportunity to find out more than just how your child is doing academically.

Before you go, it can help to:
🌸 Write down a few questions beforehand, it’s easy to forget them in the moment!
🌸 Ask about strengths as well as areas they’re finding tricky.
🌸 Ask what you can do at home to support them, even one small, manageable idea can make a difference.
🌸 Share anything you’ve noticed at home too. You know your child in a different setting, and that information can be really useful for their teacher.

Most importantly, remember that every child develops at their own pace. Parents’ evening is about understanding where your child is now, what they’re doing well and what their next steps might be.

Save this post for your next parents’ evening! 💗

05/10/2026

🐶 A little peek inside The Knowledge Nook 🩷

Today’s session had a dog theme! 🐾

We worked on:
🦴 Subitising
🦴 Number bonds to 10
🦴 Addition within 10
🦴 Counting on using efficient strategies

All through hands-on activities, manipulatives and a game of Snakes & Ladders 🎲

Learning can be purposeful and fun!

📍 Bilton, Harrogate
👩‍🏫 Qualified Primary Teacher | 9 years' experience

28/09/2026

🐠🌊 Under the sea at The Knowledge Nook! 🌊🐠

We had lots of fun in today’s tutoring session!

Through hands-on activities and plenty of exploring, we worked on:
✨ Understanding tens and ones in two-digit numbers
✨ Building and representing numbers beyond 20
✨ Finding 1 more and 1 less
✨ Finding 10 more and 10 less
✨ Comparing and ordering numbers

Rather than simply completing worksheets, we used practical resources, talked through our thinking and solved little problems together.

It was lovely to see their confidence grow as the session went on, and lots of the learning happened through play, conversation and doing. 🌸

At The Knowledge Nook, I aim to create calm, engaging sessions where children can learn in a way that works for them, while building both their skills and confidence.

If you feel your child would benefit from play-based, hands-on tutoring with a qualified primary teacher, I'd love to hear from you. 💕

Message The Knowledge Nook to have a chat about how I could support your child.

26/09/2026

A little reminder of why I do what I do. 🌸

There’s nothing better than hearing that a child has grown in confidence, enjoyed their learning and felt supported along the way.

These lovely words are from a parent of a former pupil and a teaching colleague, two different perspectives, but both reflecting the same thing: creating a calm, positive environment where children feel able to learn, try and grow. 💕

At The Knowledge Nook, I want learning to feel purposeful, engaging and enjoyable, while helping children build confidence along the way.

Thinking about tutoring for your child? I’d love to hear from you. 🌸

📩 Enquiries via the link in my bio.

22/09/2026

🎃Something spooky is coming to The Knowledge Nook! 👻

Join us for a Halloween-themed learning workshop packed with playful activities, games and hands-on fun!

A chance for children to learn, create and have fun in a relaxed, friendly environment, with plenty of Halloween magic along the way! 🧡

📅 Thursday 29th October
⏰ KS1 9.30-10.45, LKS2 11.00-12.30
📍 The Knowledge Nook, Bilton
🎟️ Places are limited, book your child’s place using the link in my bio.

Come along for some spooktacular learning fun!

21/09/2026

🐾 A trip to the zoo… with a maths twist! 🔢

Today’s tutoring session took us to the zoo to explore numbers to 20, tens and ones, greater than and less than, and sequencing numbers.

We used animals, Multilink and a little zoo challenge to make the maths practical and hands-on.

We worked on building numbers, exploring how each number is made up of tens and ones, before using this understanding to compare and order numbers.

I love using a child’s interests to make learning feel meaningful while still working towards clear mathematical goals. 💛

Next step ➡️ taking our place value knowledge beyond 20 and developing confidence when comparing two-digit numbers.

Learning through play, but with a clear purpose. ✨

14/09/2026

✨ Today is a little milestone for The Knowledge Nook...

My first tutoring session! 🥹💕

After all the planning, preparing, resource making and wondering whether people would actually want this, today it finally becomes real.

One of the things I'm most excited about is creating a space where children can come in and feel comfortable being themselves.
There might be maths.
There might be phonics.
There might be games, practical activities, lots of talking and probably a fair amount of laughter too!

Because I want children to leave thinking:
"I can do this."
rather than:
"I'm not good at this."

Here's to the beginning of The Knowledge Nook. 🌸

11/09/2026

"But if they're playing, are they really learning?"

This is one of the questions I hear most often about play-based learning.

Absolutely.

Play-based tutoring doesn't mean children are simply given toys and left to play.

It means I carefully choose activities and resources that allow children to practise important skills in a way that feels engaging and meaningful.

A maths game might be helping a child develop fluency.
A phonics activity might be strengthening their blending.
A practical challenge might be developing their reasoning and problem solving.
And sometimes, the biggest learning is having the confidence to have a go when something feels difficult. 💕

That's what I want The Knowledge Nook to be about.

07/09/2026

Bookings are now OPEN at The Knowledge Nook!

After spending the summer getting everything ready, I'm so excited to finally be opening my tutoring spaces for September. 💕

I offer play-based, practical tutoring for children from Reception to Year 4, with a focus on helping children feel confident, capable and successful in their learning.
🌸 After-school small group tuition
🌸 Home education sessions
🌸 Maths, English & phonics
🌸 Practical, play-based learning

📍 Bilton, Harrogate

I currently have spaces available for Thursday after-school groups as well as Thursday home education sessions during the day.

If you're looking for a different approach to tutoring, one where learning doesn't always have to look like sitting at a desk completing worksheets, I'd love to hear from you.

💌 Send me a message or use the enquiry form in my bio to find out more.

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Bilton
Harrogate

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https://beacons.page/theknowledge.nook

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