Pupils, students, and learners come from all backgrounds, have differing confidence levels, and present all manner of academic abilities and dispositions.
Athena Tutoring Services can cater for all!
Our explicit focus is upon personalised, tailor-made learning programmes.
Exclusively online service using Zoom and Teams.
Accessible from anywhere on all devices.
Free professional Zoom application.
Real-time student input, tutor-modelled workings, ongoing feedback.
Maximum engagement and accelerated progress.
Simple requirements: reliable internet, PC/laptop, email.
Athena Tutoring Services offers an exclusively online service using Zoom and Microsoft Teams as its key platforms.
Learning sequences and programmes are fully matched to all national curriculum.
Athena Tutoring Services offers an exclusively online service using Zoom and Microsoft Teams as its key platforms. By working online via Zoom or Teams, students can access their sessions from literally anywhere on all manner and means of devices, at a time that is convenient for all parties.
The Zoom professional app is presented free of charge to you, and like its Teams counterpart, offers countless and unprecedented opportunities for collaborative learning through screen sharing, real-time student input / tutor modelled workings, together with ongoing feedback and discussion to best secure knowledge, skills, understanding and progress.
All that is required from the client is a reliable internet connection and ideally a PC or laptop, or (with less impact) an iPad or iPhone. These platforms and approaches ensure maximum engagement, promote immediate detection of any misconceptions preventing learning, and totally support opportunities to accelerate forwards. Also, you will need an active email address and account.
Above all, we specialise in devising and delivering tailored programmes for Key Stage 2, Key Stage 3, together with 11+ English, Maths, Verbal and Non-verbal skills. We cater for pupils of all needs, dispositions, confidence levels and abilities.
We excel in enabling the most able students to engage with, enjoy and master the most challenging dimensions of English and Maths learning, directly linked to true Greater Depth and high marks / gradings.
In large, busy mainstream classes, the needs of those in the middle can all too often become overridden by the extremes of the least and most able. As pupils transfer to secondary, any gaps in learning from KS2 can hinder successful, confident, and motivated transitions – particularly in English and Maths. Our bespoke Maths and English tutoring actively address such needs and fast-tracks both learning and motivation at Key Stage 2 and 3.
Our tutoring proactively encompasses students with both diagnosed and Special Educational Needs. Resources and approaches are selected and designed that best address specific learning difficulties whilst also identifying and developing underpinning strengths, knowledge, and skills.
Share needs/aspirations via the Contact Form.
Initial test emailed for completion.
Detailed learning plan based on strengths and needs.
Weekly or more frequent sessions, progress reviews, tailored support.
Intersessional tasks as required.
Once you make contact and share needs/aspirations, an initial diagnostic “test” will be emailed to you for completion and return by email or photograph (WhatsApp). Please let the student complete this truly independently. Detailed feedback will then be given as a starting point and to identify next step progressions.
From here, a detailed learning sequence will be drawn up based upon current strengths and learning needs and desired outcomes. Throughout, this will be fast-forwarded or rewound to best address and secure specific learning needs, whilst developing skills and competencies at a suitable pace. All prior learning will be constantly revisited to ensure full fluency and instant recall.
Sessions are booked on a weekly or more frequent basis depending on need and proximity to exam. Throughout, recall of prior learning, structured questions and progressions to stretch and challenge all learners is the norm with plentiful support to ensure confidence and attainment. Modern Zoom and Teams thoroughly supports this process by enabling total engagement and accelerated progress through shared learning, modelling, ever-improving and use of interactive resources.
These will happily be supplied as required, together with answers. However, whenever this generates difficulties of any kind, please just say. All learning is purpose-designed to be appropriately and enjoyably challenging to best ensure engagement and progress. Learning sequences and programmes are fully matched to all national curriculum, 11+ and TELF/TEAL syllabus / curriculum / examinations.
Your child’s/children’s learning journey with Athena utoring Services
Please fill in the contact form on the website, giving as much detailed and honest information as possible about the subject area/s required, your child’s specific current strengths and needs including confidence and engagement levels in this subject area.
I will contact you within 48 hours to discuss the info that you have supplied and explore when available sessions would be most convenient for you.
A diagnostic assessment is undertaken combined with initiating positive relationships with your child whilst developing their engagement motivation and positivity.
The outline details of designing and delivering a tailor-made, personalised programme of learning to accelerate your child’s learning, will be shared with you together with clear and progressive learning outcomes.
This will build upon strengths, offer structure in developing using and applying skills and include supported challenge for all including those wishing to achieve mastery in their learning.
Each session will include a review of prior learning to ensure that it is secure in keeping with state of the art research about most empowering teaching and learning practice; activities to consolidate, develop and extend your child’s learning with full regard for addressing misconceptions.
Progress will be shared with parents after each session.
Each child is an individual and has different learning needs, confidence levels and self-efficacy. To address a fundamental misconception in a specific area one or two sessions may well suffice.
Elsewhere, true progress and sustained learning of which pupils become ever - more proud, essentially takes time. To ensure that your child’s learning accelerates, a minimum of a half term programme is recommended as the minimum, with 12 weeks offering more comprehensive and impressive outcomes.
How much homework of inter-sessional work will my child be given? This varies according to your child’s individual circumstances. Equally, fully-resourced, personalised tasks will be given after each session to consolidate and extend learning. Should your child have difficulties here, please just contact me via email.
These frequently run from after Easter until SATS week and offer tutoring inputs once or twice weekly for each key area you require within the SATS spectrum.
What do I do if difficulties or concerns arise between programmed tutoring? Please phone or email as soon as possible and these will be immediately addressed.