If your child has difficulties with learning, as a parent it can be hard to know how best to support them. Most parents, when faced with either a diagnosis of a specific learning difficulty or even merely the knowledge that their child struggles with a particular area of learning, are desperate to help. Many turn to weekly tutors to support their children through their education but there is a different, more cost-effective and life-long solution.
We offer a package of four hour-long sessions to identify your child's strengths and weaknesses before teaching them a variety of strategies and techniques suited to their individual learning style to help them to achieve their full potential within school and beyond. These sessions can take place either in our office or at your home at a time that suits everyone.
Sessions will be individually tailored to suit the needs of your child and will focus on how to utilise their strengths, identify their preferred learning styles and use this to help them achieve their potential and outlining a variety of strategies to help combat weaknesses and overcome difficulties. Further sessions can, of course, be arranged on a session-by-session cost basis.
All packages are tailored to incorporate the specific needs of your child but will also include the general skills and concepts needed at each stage of learning. Mentoring focuses on lifelong learning skills and helping a student to understand their own strengths, work with their weaknesses and build their ability to study independently.
Louise works with Primary school aged students whilst James works with Secondary students or those in Further Education in line with our specialisms. We focus on a variety of key strategies to enable students to progress in their learning.
As with face to face mentoring sessions, all packages are tailored to incorporate the specific needs of your child but will also include the general skills and concepts needed at each stage of learning. Should students prefer to meet virtually for any reason, we are happy to offer remote sessions via online video platform.
Whether in a face-to-face format or via an online video platform, a four-hour package costs £160 inclusive of all preparation work, resources and direct contact time with James or Louise. Any extra sessions can be arranged on request and will cost £45 per session.
All sessions will be created to fit each individual we work with but some of the main topics that are often covered are below:
Numeracy and Literacy access
Memory strategies
Developing Metacognition
Balancing energy levels
Improving focus
Numeracy and Literacy access
Memory strategies
Developing Metacognition
Balancing energy levels
Improving focus
Homework strategies
Organisation and Logistics strategies
Homework skills
Essay writing support
Memory strategies
Developing metacognition
Subject specific skills
Cross-curricular skills
Developing metacognition
Memory strategies
Organisation skills
Subject specific skills
Developing metacognition
Memory strategies
Organisation skills
University preparation if necessary
Tailored to suit age of student
Memory strategies
Revision skills and techniques
Learner-specific strategies