Zara is very bright and clearly has high expectations of herself, which is commendable. We can certainly work on speeding up her mental multiplication and anything else she wants to work on. I am also aware that the curriculum covered in her classes doesn’t appear to be up to national standards so we may do some extension

Worksheets, advancement, extension

Chloe is a bright student, and I look forward to working with her

Chloe would benefit from more structure, so I will be bring ing worksheets to our next session

We spent our time today preparing for the 2 SACs that Annie has tomorrow, covering concepts and questions that were troubling her. Annie has a good grasp on both subjects but I think the extra two hours each week to ensure that she doesn’t feel overwhelmed, and can help her feel confident and prepared would be ideal. In addition, we came up with some study techniques that should assist Annie tomorrow (in terms of remembering key formulas for biology)

N/A Annie was excellent in directing our time together to elucidate the ideas she was unsure about, and we managed to cover a really good amount in the two hours. As long as Annie is feeling like this would be helpful ongoing, I would love to continue working with her, and wish her all the best for her upcoming SACs

Anya did quite well on her homework, and I know her Mum helped her with comparing values of negative fractions which can be tricky. She still needs to learn to automatically simplify all of her fractional answers, but we worked through these together. The new ideas I introduced were about index notation, including the rules regarding multiplying, dividing, and raising to the power of with values with the same base number. The exercises have given her as homework mostly concentrate on working out the real number answers to exponent problems, but next week, once she gets more familiar wth the rules, I an give her exercises on multiplication, division, etc. We also worked on a speech for Anya to hand in to run for one of the French captains. I think this was a really good thing to do together, because she was a bit nervous and self-conscious about it, and although we wrote the three main paragraphs together, I want her to go over it to make sure it is really her voice, and coming out in her words, and of course to do the introduction and conclusion by herself. I have no doubt she will do a wonderful job.

When I’m teaching Anya a new idea, she really needs to pay attention and let me speak, as she often assumes she knows the answer when I’m actually teaching her something new. Otherwise, though, she s so clever and bubbly and a wonderful student!