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]
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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]
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]
“The attainment gap does not have to be inevitable.” Action Tutoring CEO reflects on the charity’s achievements and future impact
My awareness of the difference targeted, extra support could make for pupils started at an early age. I had some tutoring at the end of primary school and I can still remember and picture my tutor, Mrs Shields, not least… [continue reading]
Countdown numbers, tomatoes and kindness: Why we should be modelling our brilliant teachers’ strategies
Welcome to February! I hope as you read this blog you are breathing in some fantastically fresh February air, the breeze refreshing your bones and washing out the January cobwebs from your mind. One of our brilliant values at Action… [continue reading]
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