Primary Tutoring with Catherine

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Dyslexia and Dyscalculia can make it challenging for children to process information quickly and accurately, and overwhelming tasks can often exacerbate these difficulties.

By breaking down tasks into smaller, more manageable steps, they can focus on one step at a time and feel a sense of accomplishment as they complete each one. This approach can help reduce anxiety and frustration and make learning more accessible and enjoyable.

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🌻 Summer holiday tutoring:

I have had a few enquiries about summer holiday tutoring already, so just to confirm that I will be offering optional booster sessions during 4 weeks in August - the weeks beginning 31st July, 7th August, 14th August and 21st August.

I will have availability for mornings or afternoons. These sessions could be for current families, new families or returners and are for children in Reception to Year 4 (English and/or maths).

If you would like to get organised ahead, do feel free to get in touch to book some sessions. Otherwise I will send out a reminder nearer the time.🌻

Hello, I'm Catherine, a highly experienced and qualified primary school teacher, now offering individual tuition in phonics, spelling, reading, writing and maths for children aged four to nine (in Reception to Year Four). I love working with children individually, they make rapid progress and grow in confidence.

I have more than 25 years teaching experience, specialising in Early Years and Key Stage One, giving me an excellent understanding of how young children learn. I tutor from a well resourced room in my home in Hook Heath, Woking. I have a kind, patient and nurturing approach and sessions are engaging, active and fun.

I tutor Monday to Friday after school and on Saturday mornings. Sessions are bespoke - I plan carefully for each child, liaising with and feeding back to parents each week. My fee is £40 for 55 minutes tutoring. Please don't hesitate to get in touch for a chat about your child's needs.

My email address is [email protected]

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Next Tuesday 30 May 2023 at 11am until 12pm Woking Library is hosting a 'New Discovery' workshop for ages 7-11!

The workshop will support children to develop their figurative language and creative writing skills.

Still plenty of places left!

Reserve your FREE place at Woking Library's main desk. 📖

Or through the Eventbrite like below:

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🌷I have an ad hoc space available tomorrow
Friday 26th May at 3.45pm for 55 minutes. Let me know if you would like an extra lesson or to swap to this slot, for this week only.🌷

Revising our year one phonics sounds and applying our knowledge to spell words. Excellent work!

Practising our number bonds of ten with a game of 'what's in the box?'. If there are two buttons on the table, how many are in the box?

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To help you and your family get in the right mindset, we've put together a list of calming books to share 🍃

https://www.booktrust.org.uk/booklists/c/calming-mindfulness/

Pic: Nerina Canzi

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⭐ New service ⭐
Our Literacy Learning Assessment is aimed at children in Years 1 and 2 (and early into Year 3) who are working below the level of their peers and whose progress is giving cause for concern.
Appropriate early intervention can then be delivered, rather than waiting until the child is old enough for a formal dyslexia assessment.
Find out more 👉https://helenarkell.org.uk/what-we-do/assessments/

Thank you very much A for this kind and thoughtful gift. Spikey the hedgehog has been helping lots of children with their learning this week - and he has happily joined all my other animal friends!

We had lots of fun batting the balloon to eachother whilst reading the sounds! Just another way of getting enough practise and repetition to embed our new learning. Super work!

🌷I have an ad hoc space available:
Monday 22nd May at 4.50pm for 55 minutes. Let me know if you would like an extra lesson or to swap to this slot, for next week only.🌷
*This space has now been taken*

Primary Tutoring with Catherine

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If your child/children are starting school this year, you may find our get ready for school online booklet helpful. Click the link to check it out: https://orlo.uk/xHSHK

Some pupils can find reading mixed numbers tricky. Exploring real-life examples of mixed numbers, such as ages, shoe or hat size and recipes is a great way to build confidence.

🌷I have an ad hoc space available:
Tuesday 16th May at 3.45pm for 55 minutes. Let me know if you would like an extra lesson or to swap to this slot, for next week only.🌷

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If your child has tutoring sessions with me currently, or has done in the past, I would really appreciate it if you could take a few minutes to write me a review.

If you have some comments to share with other parents, who may be considering using me too, please do leave me a review, either on Facebook or on Google maps (search for Primary tutoring with Catherine).

I'd be really grateful for your help with this, many thanks.

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Many ways to support your child cope with the emotional changes that they often experience x

Working on number bonds of 20 and addition and subtraction fact families.

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Now available on demand; watch Rachael Allison of law firm Boyes Turner LLP discuss all things EHCP.
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Dyslexia is just one of a range of Specific Learning Difficulties. Others include dyspraxia (or Developmental Coordination Disorder), dyscalculia and dysgraphia. None of these is connected to intellectual ability.
https://helenarkell.org.uk/about-dyslexia/information-and-advice/

Family Learning is running a FREE three-week online parenting course 'First steps to
understanding my child (ADHD, Autism & Neurodivergent). It starts on Wednesday 7th of June at Horley Family Centre. For more information or to sign up go to: https://orlo.uk/ENuso

🌷May half term:

Tutoring sessions will run as normal until the end of this half term on Friday 26th / Saturday 27th May (and restart with the return to school on Monday 5th June).

Please remember to let me know what you would prefer to do regarding tutoring during the school holiday. Some families are of course away or like to take a break - just let me know.

Some families prefer to keep the learning going and I would love to see your children and have availability for morning or afternoon sessions during half term, between 30th May and 2nd June.

Looking forward to getting you booked in! Many thanks for all your support.🌷

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We worked on suffixes in an English session.

In a maths session we explored partitioning two digit numbers in a variety of ways.

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I am currently fully booked for regular weekly term time lessons. Many thanks to all my lovely families for your continued support. I love working with your children.

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you would like to join my waiting list. If you feel your child might benefit from some focused support during May half term and the summer holidays or in September, it's worth getting in touch now and I will add you to my list. When a space does come up it tends to go very quickly!

Just let me know your child's name, year group and whether they need help with English, maths or a mix of both, as well as your preferred days for weekday after school or Saturday morning sessions. Many thanks.

[email protected]

Concerned about Dyscalculia?

Use our colour coded, easy to use and interpret, Free Dyscalculia Checklist to help you decide if your child/ pupil might benefit from further investigation or testing by a Dyscalculia Specialist.

https://www.dyscalculianetwork.com/dyscalculia-checklist/

So proud of this wonderful writing by A! She was enthusiastic to write, had so many ideas, recalling events clearly and in detail, she used the structure of a simple recount (first/ next/ finally) and she used her phonic sounds really well to spell.

The Peter Rabbit immersive drama experience you did in London in the Easter holidays sounded great fun. Well done!

'First a man gave us some rabbit ears and we went upstairs. Next we met a man selling flowers and we picked up some flower pots and found some lavender for Mrs Hedgehog. Finally Mr McGregor trapped the rabbits in the shed. We needed to say "Carrot brain" to get out!'