A Few Tips for Parents

• Always make sure that you ask the tutor feedback regarding the progress of your child at the end of each lesson.

• Don't hesitate to ask the tutor to write a letter to your child's teacher or even make a phone call to your child's teacher.  Irrespective of how skilled your tutor is, they only spend a very limited amount of time with your child and therefore their greatest resource will be the school teacher.  Teacher's spend hours assessing, testing, watching and analysing your child's progress so make the most of the information they have to provide.

• Don't forget to give a copy of the latest school report to your tutor.

• Provide a notebook for the tutor to work in as the teacher might not bring one for some reason.

• Show interest in what is happening.  If the tutor sets homework then it is partly your responsibility to make sure that the homework actually happens - otherwise you might be wasting some money. It also encourages your child if you show genuine interest.

• Get to know your tutor - set a great example to your child about inclusiveness