Stride to Success Tuition

Hello everyone 👋

I hope you’ve all had a lovely summer ☀️ and are raring to go for the new term! 📚

As some of you know, I’ve been running my tutoring business alongside my part-time teaching job (as well as juggling my one year old and all the other things that the pandemic has brought like home school learning) which is the main reason why my Facebook content has been lacking!

For this academic year, I’m going back into school where I will be working full time 👩‍🏫 🍎 so, for now, the tutoring business will be taking a back seat.

I want to thank everyone who has shown and given me support since I set up. I wouldn’t have been able to do it without you. 💜 Thank you to my students too. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed teaching you and getting to know you as the wonderful individuals you are! Keep up the fantastic work! 🌟

Stride to Success Tuition will be back soon! ✨

Fran x

Such a beautiful thank you gift from a parent and student. I’m so grateful to have such wonderful clients. Thank you 🥰

Wishing you all a very happy Easter weekend (and holiday)! Treat yourselves to lots of chocolate, rest and quality family time! Enjoy! 🐣 🐰 🍫

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Brain teaser for this Monday morning! Any guesses? 😀

Good luck to all children, teachers and support staff as schools in England open to everyone today. I hope you all have a great, fun-filled first week being back together in the classroom!

Love this! 💛

🌟 You did it! 🌟

Home learning is over! Well done to all children and parents for your hard word, perseverance and patience over the last 8 weeks! You’ve all done a fabulous job!

Enjoy your well deserved weekend! 🥳🎉👏🏻

📚 It’s World Book Day! 📚

The aim of World Book Day is to change lives through a love of books and shared reading.

I hope you can find time today to snuggle up with your children, share a lovely book or two and make some lasting memories.

How can we prepare our children so that they are ready to return to school?

Some children may be chomping at the bit to go back and others will be reluctant to return (like my son).

Either way, it is important to prepare our children for another big change in their lives.

Here are some tips for you to try:

🟠 Prepare your child for what to expect. Get the bags ready and uniform out now.

🔵Try to get back into a routine even before school starts. Try to get them to go to sleep and get up at the same time they would on a school day.

🟢 Ensure your child is getting plenty of sleep, particularly once they return to school as they will be physically and cognitively tired.

🟣 Talk with your child about their feelings and emotions about going back to school. Be understanding and talk through ways to deal with these feelings.

🟡 Provide encouragement and reassurance before school starts, at the school gates and beyond.

** There is a link in the comments to a ‘Back to School’ story that you may like to use.**

4 more days of home schooling left! 🎉 The countdown is on!

Here are some thoughts on children returning to school. What do you make of it? I couldn’t agree more! 💛

Some thoughts on our return to school...

Children can’t catch up to someone else’s history. They have lived through something unique to their own particular childhood.

Our 3 year olds have lived a third of their lives in lockdown.

Our 4 year olds have lived a quarter of their lives in lockdown.

For most of these children this has meant a narrowing of their world and social contacts.

No visits to soft plays, farms and swimming pools.

No family holidays, play dates or days spent with grandparents.

Our children have their own history, individual to them.

They need time to reconnect with extended family, friends and adults outside their immediate bubble.

They need time to play and experience new things.

Their journey through childhood may be different to ours but that doesn’t mean they need to ‘catch up’.

As our children return to school we need to prioritise time for play and time to build relationships.

With these things at the heart of our practice our children will show us what they need to navigate their own unique part in history 💕

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