Once we went back through the methods, Piper was beginning to follow the steps and work through the questions with support. She is able to understand the methods when they are explained and practised again.

Piper has had significant difficulty retaining this topic between lessons. We had spent around three weeks working through fractions, decimals and percentages and had progressed to almost finding a percentage of one number, but today, we needed to revisit the basic conversion between fractions and decimals, as Piper was no longer confident with the steps we had previously worked through. Converting between fractions and decimals is a foundational skill for this area, so retaining these basics is important before we can continue progressing to the more difficult applications. Regular revision between lessons is becoming increasingly important so that the work covered over several weeks is not lost between sessions. I have given her a couple of questions to work on.

Piper is able to use the methods accurately once she knows which method is needed. Her multiplication recall is still making these questions more difficult than they need to be, but the underlying methods are generally there when we work through them.

Piper would really benefit from more frequent revision between lessons. We often need to spend quite a bit of time revisiting topics because she has had difficulty retaining them from one week to the next, which slows down our progress and means we can run short on time for practice before a test. Regular revision between lessons would help her retain the content and allow us to move through topics more efficiently.

I am very proud of the effort Piper has put into her revision and into the test. She did a fantastic job on the questions involving measures of centre and spread, which was a topic we had spent several weeks revisiting until she was very confident with it. When Piper is confident with a topic, she is able to apply the method accurately and often receives full marks on those questions.

The test also showed the impact of not having enough time to revisit some of the later topics. Piper often needs several weeks of revisiting a topic before she feels fully confident with it, as she can have difficulty retaining the information from one lesson to the next, which is absolutely fine and is something tuition can help with. However, this does mean that a significant amount of time can be spent consolidating one topic, leaving less time to introduce and practise newer topics before a test. Because we spent several weeks reinforcing measures of centre and spread, we had less time for angle relationships and did not get to revise time before the test, and these were the areas Piper struggled with most. Piper often receives full marks when she is confident with a topic, but when she is unsure, she can lose most or all of the marks for a question, which contributed to the lower overall result despite getting full marks on many of the questions she attempted confidently. It would therefore be really beneficial for Piper to revise between lessons so that she can retain topics for longer, and/or have lessons more frequently, to reduce the amount of time between revision.

Michaela had some difficulty retaining the content from the previous lesson, but after revising the methods she was able to work through the questions more confidently. She was able to pick up the concepts again once they had been revisited.

Michaela needs to work on retaining the methods between lessons so that we don't have to spend as much time re-teaching previously covered content. Regular revision of the key rules and methods would help with this.