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That’s a wrap for 2025 🎄🤶
Thank you very much to all my wonderful clients and students this year. Have a very Merry Christmas and I hope 2026 brings you all good things

Personal post

Thank you so much to all my amazing clients and students for your patience and kindness recently.

I have Stage Two Meniere’s Disease, which means I am constantly struggling with vertigo and tinnitus. It also makes thinking, concentrating and talking very difficult - sometimes impossible. As someone who has been lucky enough to enjoy a lifetime of having a sharp mind and quick brain, this is really difficult to cope with.

There is light at the end of the tunnel; whilst there is no cure, I am starting intensive steroid treatment, to help manage the symptoms, later this month.

I genuinely love my job: teaching as much as I can, whenever I can, remains my goal. In the meantime, what I am doing is:

1. Rescheduling, rather than cancelling, lessons whenever possible. This means I am working both days at the weekends, when I can, but I want to keep my business going. Giving up the job I love simply isn’t an option I’m prepared to entertain.

2. I can set revision tasks/work for a student to complete independently, and review what they have completed the next time I see them.

Hopefully better days are ahead. Thank you so much for being flexible and understanding. Please know that I am doing everything in my power to keep supporting your children.

I’m delighted to be working with Digitech Studio School Bristol again this year, providing one to one support in English.
Digitech were one of my first ever clients, when I started the business, so this will be my sixth year of working with their students.

I love the AI generated reports after a Zoom lesson. They can be useful revision resources and a way of letting parents know what has been covered.

It’s beginning to look a lot like 🎄🤶
Lots of my students are reading one of my favourite books this term. I love it 📚

I’ll be watching for developments on this initiative:

https://www.tes.com/magazine/news/secondary/new-qualifications-students-who-fail-english-and-maths-gcses?fbclid=IwZnRzaANwKotleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHqVJV1TbvBQbAIareWdSi6Sl-_Flcxh_mE4a2AdRwnp7GTqPd_utKKIP8fPu_aem_zfCMsiPTpri9jQPpLDnH4w

New qualifications for students who fail English and maths GCSEs The government also announces plans for ‘V-level’ vocational qualifications, along with a duty on schools to support students into post-16 study

I love my job SO much!
In the classroom, I had to juggle the needs of thirty students at a time. I did my best, but nothing beats having one-to-one time with a student and being able to really get to the heart of what they need.