= Overview =
Our tailored catch-up groups are designed to support your child’s success with regards to their foundational understanding of English and Maths. At Eden Tutors, we pride ourselves on providing the highest quality tuition, planned and created by teaching professionals to improve your child’s academic attainment. Having first-hand experience of the teaching profession, we are uniquely equipped to address the gaps in knowledge that have arisen out of recent school closures. Our catch-up groups are specifically targeted for primary aged children who would benefit from consolidation activities related to their key stage year group, with a view to breach the gaps in attainment and improve their opportunities of academic success.
The catch-up courses are divided into key stages and will take place over a 10-week course during term time. Our highly comprehensive online courses will consist of small group sessions of up to 6 children and will cover a range of fundamental aspects of the English and mathematics curriculum. This bespoke service has been designed to support your child to build upon their prior knowledge and accelerate their overall progress.
Throughout the course, your child will be encouraged to participate and complete a tailored curriculum and be provided with their own workbook, suitable for their key stage expectations. At Eden Tutors, we believe that regular feedback, reflection and an interactive, context based learning approach is essential when engaging your child to achieve their academic aims. Our tailored catch-up courses are a reflection of those high standards and quality of education, providing children with the opportunities to thrive academically.
= Key Stage 1 =
Course Description: KS1 English
Suitable for ages 5-7
Maximum pupils: 6
Location: Online
Duration: 10-week course
Course Contents:
- Review phonics sounds and early reading skills including single sounds, diagraphs and trigraphs.
- Practise responding speedily with the correct sound to graphemes (letters or groups of letters) for all 40+ phonemes, including, where applicable, alternative sounds for graphemes.
- Learn strategies to support early reading skills.
- Participate in discussions about what is read to them, taking turns and listening to what others say.
- Take part in opportunities to practise reading and writing CVC words.
- Practise handwriting of capital and lower-case letters.
- Write simple sentences using phonics knowledge.
- Apply capital letters, finger spaces and full stops in simple sentences.
- Use a variety of punctuation within different sentences including question marks, exclamation marks, full stops and speech marks.
- Include ‘and’, ‘because’ and ‘but’ in a sentence with two clauses.
Eden Tutors tailored English course is aimed at key stage 1 learners. Over the 10 weeks, children will delve into the national curriculum objectives to support their learning journey. The English sessions are ideal for learners who are beginning to consolidate their understanding of phonics, early reading and writing skills. Throughout the course, children will develop confidence in their phonics sounds, reading and writing simple sentences with other children of a similar level and age group. In a small and friendly group setting, children will be encouraged to use a range of punctuation to produce coherent sentences, including capital letters, finger spaces and full stops. Children will build upon their prior knowledge to sound and blend unfamiliar printed words accurately. Students will also develop the skill of blending the sounds into words for reading and establish the habit of applying this skill whenever they encounter new words. Accordingly, students will hear, share and discuss a wide range of high-quality texts to develop a love of reading and broaden their vocabulary.
= Key Stage 1 =
Mathematics Group Tuition
Course Description: KS1 Mathematics
Suitable for ages 5-7
Maximum pupils: 6
Location: Online
Duration: 10-week course
Course Contents:
- Practise number formation to 20 with a focus on writing numbers the correct way.
- Count, read and write numbers to 100 in numerals.
- Count in multiples of 2s, 5s and 10s using repeated addition, number lines and number squares.
- Add and subtract one and two digit numbers.
- Identify number bonds to 20.
- Begin to solve one step problems with addition and subtraction.
- Start to solve problems involving multiplication and division using arrays, repeated addition, mental methods and multiplication and division facts, including problems in contexts.
- Recognise, find, name and write fractions 1/3, 1/4, 1/2, 3/4, of a length, shape, set of objects or quantity.
Eden Tutors tailored mathematics course is aimed at key stage 1 learners. Over the 10 weeks, children will delve into the national curriculum objectives to support their learning journey. The course tutor will regularly assess students progress so that they can build upon prior knowledge and become secure with number facts and basic operations. Mathematics sessions are aimed at learners who would benefit from reviewing their basic number skills, including number formation, number bonds to 20 and operational skills such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. Throughout the course, your child will develop confidence in their understanding of number skills, with a view to begin applying their knowledge to word problems and mathematics within a wider context. In a small and friendly group setting, children will learn to read, write and interpret mathematical statements involving addition (+), subtraction (–) and equals (=) signs and learn how to solve one-step problems that involve addition and subtraction, using pictorial representations and missing number problems. Children will also be introduced to a range of mathematical vocabulary, supporting students to provide reasoning for their answers.
= Key Stage 2 =
English Group Tuition
Course Description: KS2 English
Suitable for ages 7-9
Maximum pupils: 6
Location: Online
Duration: 10-week course
Course Contents:
- Develop strategies to support reading skills.
- Learn how to draw inferences such as inferring characters feelings, thoughts and motives from their actions, and justifying inferences with evidence.
- Participate in discussions about what is read to them, taking turns and listening to what others say.
- Take part in opportunities to practise reading and writing through high frequency words.
- Consolidate cursive handwriting skills.
- Practise applying prefixes and suffixes to a range of different words.
- Identify and spell homophones accurately.
- Consistently use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.
- Include fronted adverbials to begin a range of sentences.
- Review grammatical vocabulary including adverbs, prepositions, conjunctions, prefixes, suffixes, subordinate clauses.
Eden Tutors tailored English catch-up group is aimed at key stage 2 learners who are beginning to consolidate their understanding of reading comprehension, written and grammatical skills. Over the 10-week course, your child will develop confidence in their reading comprehension through being introduced to a variety of fiction and non- fiction texts, that are directed towards developing their vocabulary and the breadth and depth of their reading, making sure that they become independent, fluent and enthusiastic readers. In a small and friendly group setting, children will be involved in discussions where they learn to justify their views about what they have read and can make inferences about the future. Children will also consolidate their writing skills and stamina; grammatical knowledge; their grasp of sentence structure and their knowledge of linguistic terminology. Teaching children to develop as writers involves teaching them to enhance the effectiveness of what they write, as well as increasing their competence. Accordingly, children will have the the opportunity to practise their handwriting skills by writing down their ideas with accuracy and include good sentence punctuation.
= Key Stage 2 =
Mathematics Group Tuition
Course Description: KS1 English
Suitable for ages 7-9
Maximum pupils: 6
Location: Online
Duration: 10-week course
Course Contents:
- Develop an understanding of place value up to 1000.
- Practise knowledge of 3, 4, 6, 7 and 9 times tables.
- Identify a range of strategies to solve number problems including number lines, arrays, column addition and subtraction and partitioning.
- Develop an understanding of place value including hundreds, tens and ones to confidently add and subtract three digit numbers.
- To begin to use inverse calculations to check equations are correct.
- To solve one step problems with addition and subtraction and start to become familiar with two-step mathematical processes.
- To solve problems involving multiplication and division using arrays, repeated addition, mental methods and multiplication and division facts, including problems in different contexts.
- To develop a confidence in using fractions including recognising, finding and writing fractions of a discrete set of objects; identifying equivalent fractions and adding and subtracting fractions.
Eden Tutors tailored mathematics catch up group is aimed at key stage 2 learners who would benefit from consolidating their number skills up to 1000. Our courses are led by highly engaging and experienced tutors and will provide children with the opportunity to develop upon their skills learnt in key stage 1. The course tutor will regularly assess students progress so that they can build upon prior knowledge and become secure with number facts, basic operations and measurement. In a small and friendly group setting, pupils will develop their fluency with whole numbers and the four operations, including number facts and the concept of place value. This will support pupils to develop efficient written and mental methods and perform calculations accurately with increasingly large whole numbers. Pupils will develop their ability to solve a range of problems, including simple fractions and develop their mathematical reasoning skills.