Eliza Harris - private tutor

30/12/2025

Sarah Rose Jones

09/11/2025

With each generation we evolve, let go of destructive habits, and become more loving. The value of good parenting is priceless in our world!

06/10/2025

Are you the parent of a year 5 child considering entering them for the 11+ exam in September 2026?
If so I may have the answer. I am a primary school teacher with over thirty years experience offering one-to-one private tuition for your child in preparation for sitting the entrance exam. I currently have some availability so if you would like more information I offer a free, no-obligation meet and greet/ mini assessment message me and we can arrange a meeting.

01/10/2025

A perfect example

**Vary Sentence Length***

Here are some resources on varying sentence lengths: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1sIW03lE1HK0Yt0M91Gqcche7kEr1CKj0wpbBuHPopz8/edit?usp=drivesdk

Example provided by Gary Provost

14/05/2025

14/05/2025

In the early 20th century, a young Englishwoman named Cecilia Payne made a discovery so profound it changed astronomy forever—yet her name nearly vanished from the textbooks.

Born in 1900, Cecilia dreamed of unlocking the secrets of the universe. But Cambridge University, where she studied physics, refused to award degrees to women. Undeterred, she moved to the U.S. and became the first person to earn a Ph.D. in astronomy from Radcliffe College.

Her 1925 doctoral thesis—called by experts “the most brilliant Ph.D. in astronomy ever written”—proved that stars are primarily made of hydrogen. It was a revelation that overturned previous thinking and laid the foundation for modern astrophysics.

But her discovery was so radical that a senior astronomer, Henry Norris Russell, told her not to publish it. He later published similar findings himself and received most of the credit—though he did eventually acknowledge Cecilia’s work.

Cecilia kept going. She became Harvard’s first female professor promoted from within and the first woman to chair a department there. She opened the door for generations of women in science.

Cecilia Payne never asked for glory—only that truth be known. And today, we remember her not only for what she discovered, but for the strength it took to be right when the world wasn’t ready to listen.


~Old Photo Club

12/05/2025

I love this story x

08/05/2025

03/05/2025

27/04/2025

I’m hearing from ever more parents of primary school aged children that their children really don’t like school. They say that it’s boring, that they have to sit for long hours listening. Parents say that young children are taught things which they, their parents, have never needed to know. Things like ‘fronted adverbials’ and the difference between homophones and homographs.

Which wouldn’t matter if the children were interested and curious, but this isn’t why they are learning those things. They’re learning them because someone has decided that this is the best way for young children to spend their time.

That these – fronted adverbials, for example - are the most important things.

Parents say that their children are stressed about school work before they’ve even turned seven. They say that children wake up at night worrying that they’ll be put in the Red Zone or taken off the Sun and put on the Rain Cloud.

They say that when they tell school that their child doesn’t want to come, school tells them that maybe home is just too nice. They suggest that rather than improving their experience of school, parents should focus on making their experience of home worse so school seems better in comparison.

Huh?

How does that make any sense?

We’re losing a generation of children. They’re learning that they don’t like to learn, at the stage of their lives when they should be bursting with curiosity and excitement. By the time they are nine, some of them are already saying that school is ‘just something to get through’.

Here’s my take. Education shouldn’t be about ‘information in’. The first priority should not be covering content or passing tests.

That is something which can happen later, but first?

We need to inspire children about learning.

When our young children think that they are stupid. When our six-year-olds learn that learning is irrelevant and difficult. When our eight-year-olds believe that they are bad because they can’t sit still and concentrate?

Those things last a lifetime.

This is the foundation of education. If we get it wrong now, we’ll be dealing with the consequences far into the future. Our children need change.

20/03/2025

To all the people who don't live in a city...