Mighty Minds Tuition

09/09/2022

“Her dedication and devotion as Sovereign never waivered, through times of change and progress, through times of joy and celebration, and through times of sadness and loss” 💙

05/09/2022

My favourite message to share every year!

Not every child wants to talk about their summer, not every child had a positive morning at home and not every child feels ready to learn.

Good luck to everybody starting back at school this week 💙

19/04/2022

17/03/2022

ChatterBooks at the Palace in Ibstock today! Can you guess what we're reading today? 🐻

The group runs in the Centenary Room so please use the back door at the Palace.

£3 per child. 3:30-4:30pm. Lots of talking, creativity and fun.

10/03/2022

Hard at work at ChatterBooks this afternoon. Every Thursday at 3.30pm. £3 per child. At the Palace in Ibstock. 1 hour of reading, creativity, talking and fun 💙

23/02/2022

Upcoming online training for school staff. Email [email protected] for information or bookings.

21/02/2022

We have just a few slots that have become available for 1:1 or small group tutoring. We cover reading, writing, maths or a combination of all of them and have years of successful teaching experience both online and in person. We focus on building confidence and self esteem and have many 5 star reviews. We build a personalised programme for each individual child and also have a wealth of experience working with children that have additional needs. For a no obligation chat about what we can offer drop us a message.

21/02/2022

Planning interesting books and creative activities for our new ChatterBooks reading group to encourage a love of stories 💙

At the Palace in Ibstock from Thursday 10th March. 3.40-4.20pm. Only £3 per child.

18/02/2022

Home Tuition - New availability!

Our mission is to help your children reach their highest potential by pairing you with an experienced and qualified educator who desires one thing: to offer a quality learning experience.

With Mighty Minds, you’ll get affordable tutoring that actually gets results. Our tutors are experts in their respective subjects, and vary their teaching techniques depending on the needs of the student. But don’t take our word for it—try us out today and see how we can help your child excel well beyond the classroom.

29/08/2021

“Our lives aren’t just measured in years, they’re measured in the lives of the people we touch around us.” 💙

I love teaching The Hunger Games. What makes teaching The Hunger Games so much fun? For starters, and this is probably the most important factor, the kids love it. I don’t have to worry about getting them to read, and that is often half the battle. The Hunger Games is also an ideal teaching text because it introduces important topics and themes in an entertaining way. During our study of The Hunger Games, we explore a diverse range of topics that expand our understanding of the world, our society, and human nature.

When students truly enjoy and want to read a text, you don’t have the constant struggle of getting them to read. You don’t have to add incentives or threaten consequences; the kids simply read because they want to. Too often we force students to read texts they have no interest in. Sometimes the struggle is worthwhile because reading these texts expands our students’ cultural literacy, and sometimes students discover that they actually like, or at least appreciate a text after they are forced to read it. But it really is a joy when students are enthusiastic about reading, and that is what I have experienced with The Hunger Games. In fact, one of the challenges I now face when teaching The Hunger Games is that many students have already read it.

17/08/2021

Anxiety can be a masterful imposter. In children, it can sway away from the more typical avoidant, clingy behaviour and show itself as tantrums, meltdowns and aggression. As if anxiety wasn’t hard enough to deal with!

When children are under the influence of an anxious brain, their behaviour has nothing to do with wanting to push against the limits. They are often great kids who don’t want to do the wrong thing, but they are being driven by a brain in high alert.

If we could see what was happening in their heads when anxiety takes hold like this, their behaviour would make sense. Of course, that doesn’t mean that they should be getting a free pass on their behaviour. Their angry behaviour makes sense, and it’s important to let them know this, but there will always be better choices they are capable of making.

Once kids have a more solid understanding of why they do what they do, they will be well on their way to finding a better response.

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14/08/2021

One of the best clues that you are about to fall into fear based thoughts is when you start with “what-ifs.” But you know what's great about what-ifs? They not only signal it’s time to take some deep breaths, they also can be a signal to shift direction.

If you’re already good at asking what-ifs, then there’s a pretty good chance you’ve got a powerful imagination to come up with all those anxious need to protect myself “what-ifs.” So why not use that creative strength and turn those what-if-protective- thoughts into what-if-better-case-more-likely-possibility-thoughts. In other words, what-if the what-ifs.

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