Developing Confidence in Your Child: How a Tutor Can Help When a child learns, they are using several skills. Reading, logical thinking, and possibly the most important of all; confidence. It might not seem like confidence is a skill, but in reality, it is. A skill is something that requires development from external support such […]

Why Does My Child Need To Do Corrections? Learning from our mistakes can be really difficult. We sometimes feel ashamed, embarrassed, humiliated, unworthy or any other emotion when we make a mistake. However, making mistakes is a part of life and as the saying goes “you learn from your mistakes”.  Mistakes are also indicative of […]

Benefits of Studying During the School Holidays School’s out! What will your kids do now? Summer holidays brings visions of lazy days and lots of fun, but parents might have different ideas. After all, children will need to go back to school in a few short months, which means they can’t exactly turn their brains […]

Planning and Organisation Skills for Students It’s time to head back to school. Your child has a packed backpack and organised desk, but are they really ready? Even if the space is organised, it is important to be mentally prepared as well. Discuss and plan with your child what their morning needs to look like, […]

HOW TO BUILD A STRONG VOCABULARY As your child absorbs words, both written and spoken, their vocabulary grows. Beginning with a young one understanding the meanings of basic words such as dog or chair, to a teenager familiar with the definitions of escalate or tangible; increasing vocabulary allows your child to navigate the world around them. […]

Raising Mentally Strong Children What will really help your children become their best selves and get through life’s toughest challenges is to teach them to be mentally strong. Mental strength requires you to pay attention to three things: the way you think, feel, and act. Of course, it takes practice, patience, and constant reinforcement to […]

Which tutoring programme is right for my child?  How is my child really doing in school?  As a parent, these are the two most critical questions at the forefront of their mind. Often a parent wants to know more about how their child has progressed from the last meeting. If they have improved or not. […]

Effective Tips to Study Maths Maths is often one of those subjects that students either love or hate. Maths builds on top of previous skills and is all about how you use the 4 basic operations (➕➖✖️➗). Because Maths is all about skills development, here are some effective tips to study maths: Put in the […]

What is Arithmetic? The word “Arithmetic” originated from Greek arithmētikē (tekhnē) which means ‘(art) of counting’, and from ‘arithmos’ which means ‘number’. The other branches of mathematics are Algebra, Geometry and Analysis. Arithmetic is therefore the “branch of mathematics that deals with the study of numbers using various operations on them. Basic operations of math are […]