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Helen C

£40/hr

Experienced teacher/tutor with highly successful +11/SATS results.

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A bit about Helen C

I started tutoring in the early 1990s. By this time, I had gained adult teacher training experience and secondary school teaching experience after qualifying and had been teaching examination classes as well as marking national examinations. This gave me an insight into what is expected and what examiners are looking for and as such was able to pass this on to students that I tutored. My recent teaching experience has been at primary level, where I taught Key Stage 2 for over 20 years. Throughtout my teaching years I and have tutored individual students (11+ and Year 6 SATS). I believe in listening very carefully to any student I engage with, especially to what they perceive to be the 'problem/s' and then TOGETHER, finding creative and fun ways to sort them out. I am happiest when a student says ' we did..... and I got lost....here' and when we have solved or found ways to a solution. When this happens - I have been known to dance a jig... much to the students' amusement! I enjoy being "given homework" by my students... much as I always give some (home)work to help consolidate learning, I also get my students' input as to what they need to practice and my homework is to find it (& fun ways of doing it) for them. I haven't met a single student who doesn't relish giving the tutor/teacher homework!!! My most memorable success was when I was tutoring English as a Foreign Language to a seven year old boy from Israel who had only one word in English...."No"! In the group session, he loved to shout this at the top of his voice whenever I asked him to do any work, indeed, anything! This young lad and his older brother were there to learn the English language and I couldn't speak a word of Hebrew! One day after three weeks of trying and with No! No! No! ringing in my ears, I called his father, who dropped what he was doing and came straight to school where we had our tuition sessions. I will always recall how this father walked in... even after hearing his son shouting at the top of his voice. All he said, was, "But 'O'..., you can do this!" in a very quiet voice. I learnt something that day; the very quietly spoken "you can do this!", which became my "We can do this!" Became my personal motto. My friend 'O', not only learnt the English language, both spoken and written including being able to answer grammar questions (e.g. what is a preposition, adverb etc. and give examples of the same), he gave his older brother a run for his money by clinching the English prize for, not just his year group, but for the entire school that year! Needless to say, I learnt some phrases in Hebrew ( my homework from O). There have been other students who have succeeded and even surpassed both their parents' and my expectations but it is 'O' that brings a smile to my face and makes me remember why I love teaching and became a teacher! Recently another student i tutored...R had been working below the required standard and parents were rightly concerned. R worked his socks off... doing every single piece of work I gave him and was always "giving me homework"... called me the day he got his Year 6 SATS results ! He asked me if I was sitting down... he said it was better if i was as he didnt want me to fall down. "How bad could it be if I needed to sit down?" I thought! Not only did this young gentleman man pass at the expected standard for a few of the subjects he had been dreading and worked so hard at, but had exceeded in all the rest! I had sat down... but shot straight up .... to perform my jig... much to the amusement of those people close by! These success stories always bring a smile to my face and is why I love tutoring. When a student has improved and is pleased with the evidence of their hard work. Aside from teaching , tutoring and having a continued fascination about how learning takes place in each individual student, I have great interest in painting. My prefered medium is acrylic paints, which I use to explore colour and have painted several abstract pieces that depict this. I also paint stil I am also very keen on gardening - again the colourful aspect of this and exploring how different colours and textures go together or contrast or compliments each other. Visiting art galleries especially when the weather started getting colder is an autumn and winter past which gives me the opportunity to see how the well known artists have used colour in their compositions. I love growing my own plants from seed or cuttings and as such garden centres. Visiting well established gardens as well as visiting different gad3n centres is one of my summertime activities. "WE CAN DO THIS!" I believe that there are many ways of solving any problem. It is finding the one that works for each individual that is the most important. I love helping student achieve the very best they possibly can

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Maths
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Primary
 £40/hr
English
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Primary
 £40/hr
11+
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11+
 £40/hr

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