Category Archives: News and Updates

Staring into Space: How Daydreaming can Unlock Your Child’s Creativity

Staring into Space is a new campaign, launched today by children’s laureate Lauren Child. The campaign – and its array of fabulous resources – aims to get teachers to build daydreaming and simply looking around into the school day.   … Continue reading

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Upcoming Events at Better Tuition

Upcoming Events have been busy bees at Better Tuition over the Easter break. Summer term is our busiest and we have several upcoming events, so we were determined to get ahead of the game. Birthday Glee It’s our tenth birthday … Continue reading

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Happy New Year from Better Tuition

Happy New Year from the whole team at Better Tuition. 2018 is a big year for us as in April we celebrate ten years in business! We couldn’t do what we do without the support of our wonderful customers, so … Continue reading

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Free and Low-Cost Downloads from Better Tuition

We have recently updated our download store so that it’s even more straightforward to use. If you haven’t visited it yet, do take a look: you will find FREE practice entrance exam/ 11 plus papers, covering maths, English, verbal and … Continue reading

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Anti-Bullying Week 2017: Gender and Bullying

This is the fourth post in a series to mark Anti-Bullying Week 2017. The theme for Anti-Bullying Week 2017 is ‘All Different – All Equal’. Two topical stories have emerged which together highlight the need to identify and challenge bullying … Continue reading

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Anti-Bullying Week 2017: Empowering Books

This post is the third in our series marking Anti-Bullying Week 2017. Today we are focusing on books that will empower your child to beat the bullies. You may already know that Better Tuition has a mini lending library. Most … Continue reading

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Anti-Bullying Week 2017: Building Resilience

Resilience. This is the second post in our series marking Anti-Bullying Week 2017. Resilience is an essential life skill. Children have seldom been more protected from the evils of disease, exploitation and poverty but each new era brings fresh challenges. … Continue reading

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Anti-Bullying Week 2017

Next week and every week, we stand up against bullying. Coordinated by the Anti-Bullying Alliance, Anti-Bullying Week 2017 takes place from 13th – 17th November. This year Anti-Bullying Week is celebrating what makes us all different because, after all, we … Continue reading

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Trafford Secondary Schools Open Days and Evenings

UPDATE: This is an old post. For details of 2019 open days and evenings, please click on this link. Open Days and Evenings 2017 Before choosing a secondary school, we recommend you attend a few open days and have a … Continue reading

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Interviewed by Sejal Karia of ITN

There has been much excitement at Better Tuition today: Sejal Karia of ITN travelled all the way from London to interview our Centre Director, Paul Syrett, about the benefits of tuition. There are several tuition centres in Trafford (at the … Continue reading

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