Our Tutors and the Children We Support

OUR TUTORS

Our experienced, collaborative and dedicated tutors are recruited and trained by us. Their skills and adaptability equip them well to work with hard-to-reach children.

Tutors:

  • Use a range of approaches to develop or enhance meaningful reading and writing skills, in line with quality first teaching.
  • Teach and reinforce phonics explicitly when needed.
  • Depending on the programme, tutors stay with the child over a term or across two or three terms, sometimes longer. This ensures that twice a week for 45 minutes, the child has consistent and tailored support, helping them to develop skills and grow their confidence, resilience and positive attitudes to learning.
  • Are experienced in quickly forming productive, collaborative relationships with school staff, children, and their families. They take their lead from the context of the school that they work in and adapt the provision to that context so that it complements it, while being based on a real understanding of the child’s needs.
  • Ensure tuition is rooted in best practice and aligns with curriculum expectations. Information is shared, and wherever possible, links between the programme and the classroom are made

THE CHILDREN WE SUPPORT

Many of the pupils referred to us by the school are struggling to make progress in the mainstream classroom and have a significant literacy gap. In particular, we support those:

  • Who are working below age related expectations
  • Not accessing the curriculum for their year group
  • With Individual Learning Plans or in receipt of Pupil Premium Funding
  • 85% of the children we helped in 2024/25 faced one of more of the following barriers:
    • Coming from a disadvantaged background and living in areas of deprivation, being eligible for pupil premium funding (PP) or free school meals (FSM)
    • Learning English as an Additional Language
    • Having parents or carers who also struggle with literacy
    • Having a special educational need such as dyslexia, dyspraxia or mild autism
    • Experiencing a lack of support at home and/or disrupted school attendance