Author Archives: Christine McLaughlin

Advent Calendar Day 15 – a Circular Christmas

Today’s advent challenge is to label the parts of a circular bauble. Return to our Advent Activity Calendar. Visit our download store to download 100 Winter Word Problems absolutely FREE. Does your child need extra help with maths? Whether s/he … Continue reading

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Advent Calendar: Day 13 – Time for Maths

Welcome to Day13 of Better Tuition’s Winter Advent Activity Calendar.  Today we have a set of Christmas maths problems for you. Return to our advent calendar. Today is Tuesday, 13th December 2022.  The current time is 10:03.  The start of December 2022 was at 00:00 … Continue reading

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Advent Activity Calendar: Day 12 – Santa’s Proof Reading Challenge

Instructions: Santa has a lot of letters to read at this time of year!  Here’s one with twelve spelling mistakes and eighteen incidents of missed or mistaken punctuation.  Can you a) identify and b) correct each one? You can print off … Continue reading

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Advent Activity Calendar: Day 11 – Merry Christmas in 15 Languages

Your Better Tuition Advent challenge today is to identify the Merry Christmases from around the world – or, to be more specific – to identify which languages are used. You can choose from French, Finnish, Icelandic, Tagalog, Swedish, Hungarian, Tahitian, … Continue reading

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Advent Activity Calendar – Day Ten: Verbal Reasoning Cloze

Welcome to Day Ten of our Advent Activity Calendar.  Today we have a Verbal Reasoning Cloze activity for you. Choose the best word to fill in the gaps. Cloze activities enhance and assess vocabulary and comprehension.  They also feature in … Continue reading

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Advent Activity Calendar – Day 8 – Properties of Shape

Welcome to Day 8 of our Advent Activity Calendar. Let’s take a look at the presents under the Christmas tree and answer some questions. 1. What shape are all three gifts? 2. How many vertices does each gift have? 3.The … Continue reading

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Advent Activity Calendar Day 5: Santa’s Verbal Reasoning Challenge

Santa loves our Better Tuition advent calendar so much he has created a fun Verbal Reasoning challenge for all those year five students who are busily preparing for Trafford’s Entrance Exams and for anyone who enjoys a good logic puzzle. Each Christmas Eve, Santa is busy ironing his robes … Continue reading

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Refer a Friend and Receive a FREE Lesson

It’s the season of giving, so we are offering our current customers a FREE lesson when they refer a friend to us for a free assessment or free trial lesson. If your friend books and pays for a lesson following … 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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