Lesson Ideas For Primary English Tutors Based on my experience of volunteering with Action Tutoring in two Bristol-based primary schools, here are my top tips for making sessions as useful for the pupils as possible. Rules: each week we establish… [continue reading]
Reflections from a tutor: The Action Tutoring experience
Written by Elaine Garrod Elaine is a graphic designer working for KPMG and tutors English with Action Tutoring at Chelsea Academy. It is generally said that moving house is one of the most stressful life events one can have. I… [continue reading]
A closer look into school funding in our current climate.
Action Tutoring is a charity that exists to close the attainment gap for disadvantaged pupils. Schools currently pay for approximately one-third of the cost of our tutoring programmes, with the remainder coming from fundraising through grants and donations. Most schools… [continue reading]
Meeting those that make it happen. A visit to Ashmole Primary School.
During the six months that I’ve worked for Action Tutoring I’ve had the wonderful privilege of spending most of my time in some of the 80 schools we work with and I’ve been continuously amazed at the level of coordination,… [continue reading]
Headteacher Lynne Gavin – “Thank you to all the Action Tutoring volunteers on behalf of the children whose life chances are improving as a result of what they do.”
Lynne Gavin is the headteacher of Pakeman Primary School in Islington, London. Approximately 70% of its pupils are living in poverty, another 15% considered working poor, 75% of children speaking English as an additional language and many children come from… [continue reading]
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