Tutoring with Emma

Hello everyone 👋🏻

I just wanted to let you all know that I will be taking a little pause on tutoring sessions after school for a little while. For a bit of background if you don't know me, I'm a mother of 2 and my littlest has additional needs. My little one finds transition and change extremely hard and I think I massively underestimated how taxing before, after school and bedtime would be. I can only apologise and will do my best to get back to teaching all your lovely little ones asap ❤️

It's been a little quiet here. My apologies! Swipe to see why though 🌞 I've had a wonderful holiday but I'm well rested and ready to get back to it.

I must apologise for the delay in September sessions being announced, I will know for sure what hours I am doing in my other teaching role by the 5th September and will post them as soon as I know 😊 My evening tutoring sessions are extremely limited as my lovely regulars take up most of these slots but I will aim to squeeze a few more in.

If any of you would be so kind as to pop on my page to leave me a review I'd be very grateful ❤️ Also, I've managed to finally connect my Instagram account with my Facebook so if you have Instagram it'd be great if you could give me a follow.

Sorry for the silence but I've been having such a wonderful time teaching lots of AMAZING little people over summer 😊

Look at this incredible work that has happened over the last few weeks. I absolutely love seeing what they can do with a little bit of a confidence boost. I always say the most important things can't be shown on a piece of paper and it's so true. My aim is always for them to be comfortable, happy, and build their confidence up. The rest will follow.

THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH! 😁🤩

My summer timetable is now fully booked and I'm so grateful for all the bookings I've received. I'm really sorry to anyone I haven't managed to fit in over the summer. I do have a cancellation list so I will be in touch if anyone cancels.

I will be announcing September times soon so people can get booked in ASAP! Thank you all again ❤️

Thanks to a wonderful influx of enquiries, I have an extremely limited summer teaching timetable. Thank you all so much for keeping me busy 😍❤️

Please note that one of my Tuesday daytime sessions may not be available as I am awaiting confirmation of a booking/times but I will add anyone to a waitlist who needs those dates/times. Please do drop me a message if there's a date you desperately need and I will always try my best to fit you in.

I undoubtedly work with some of the most talented young people ever! ❤️

Keep your eyes peeled for summer daytime tuition sessions. I will be looking at my diary and announcing them shortly 😊

To all my amazing, wonderful, lovely tutees who are starting their SATs this week; remember how brilliant you are and how little the SATs affect who you as a person ❤️

My own little ones school has chosen to sit the KS1 sats even though this year it isn't compulsory and it makes me extremely sad to know he will too have to sit them 😢

SATs aren't necessary, assessments are and often teacher judgement and other assessment means are far more accurate than any test situation could ever show. We also know they don't measure all the other ways in which you can show your skills and knowledge. The world needs kindness, compassion, artists, sportspeople, manual labourers etc and a test can never measure those skills.

To all the teachers having to administer the SATs and feeling sad about it all, I see you. For all you teachers feeling the pressure of your children getting the best results or fearing you'll be accused of not being fit for the job, I see you. You're overworked, underpaid, underappreciated but worst of all, your judgements aren't trusted. Thank you for all the work you do.

According to the UK government and their curriculum, learning through play appears to stop abruptly once they reach Key Stage 1 🤦🏻‍♀️

I very much believe the benefits of learning through play continues even as an adult! I play Scrabble every week with one of my daytime students. They are in Key Stage 4 and they love Scrabble time far more than the usual written, desk work. They use the dictionary when they're unsure what a word means or if it is even a word. Their vocabulary is expanding and they are reading more than ever without even realising it. They are able to focus for longer periods of time too

Scrabble is the perfect way to support reluctant writers, readers and children who find spelling a little tricky. It's also great for Maths if you get them to keep score 😁

Messages like this make me so happy 😁

It brings me so much joy to know that I am helping little ones, not only with their education, but their confidence.

Well-being and mindset is always my biggest focus when tutoring and I will always aim to make subjects and learning a little less daunting for them.

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I have a very rare few Monday sessions available. DM to book in. If you book all 3 the sessions will be discounted.

Each individual session is £25.

Please get your requests in ASAP if you need evening tutoring sessions. I'm super excited to say I've had lots of enquiries and bookings made for April and May 😁 but it does mean I'm now extremely limited with what days and times I can do.

I will always try my best to fit you in where I can though.

Thank you for keeping me busy!

Who says teaching/tutoring has to be for core subjects?!

I love seeing a child's talent bloom under encouragement, watching their confidence shine doing something they truly love ❤️

We all know that the current school system does not fit a lot of children (this is particularly true for SEND) so I adore working with them to see what they CAN do & what they enjoy doing, rather than which box they don't tick.

This isn't to say that core subjects aren't important but it is to say they can be done in so many different ways!

I have limited tutoring availability for after the Easter holidays. Send me a message for more information 😊

Home-educated tutoring sessions are available on Monday and Friday daytime and can be 1-1 or for groups.