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Author Archives: Christine McLaughlin
Advent Calendar: 8th December – 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
Advent Calendar: 7th December – spread some Christmas cheer around the world
We have a fabulously fun vocabulary activity for you today. Vocabulary is an extremely important aspect of education. Whether you are preparing for SATs or 11 plus/ entrance exams, your child will need to demonstrate a wide knowledge of words … Continue reading
Advent Calendar: 6th December – puzzle solution.
This is the solution to our advent puzzle from yesterday. Return to our advent calendar here, and find out more about Urmston’s Better tuition centre here. The number of gifts given over the twelve days of Christmas is … … 364. … Continue reading
Advent Calendar: 6th December – Christmas Counting
Your advent challenge for today is all about attention to detail. You are going to answer a question about The Twelve Days of Christmas. Watch the song on Youtube below, or download a pdf of the song’s lyrics. Now that … Continue reading
Advent Calendar: 5th December – 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’s elves must prepare the reindeer for the night to … Continue reading
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Advent Calendar: 4th December – Verbal Reasoning Shuffled Sentences
It’s day 4 of our Advent calendar and we have a verbal reasoning challenge for you. At Better Tuition, Urmston, we have been trying to read this weather forecast but each sentence has been shuffled. What’s more, an extra word … Continue reading
Advent Calendar: 3rd December – 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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Advent Calendar 2nd December: the Angles are Singing!
Time for some Better Tuition advent calendar maths. Angles are a measure of turn. There are four types of angles you need to be able to identify: acute, obtuse, reflex and right. You’ve probably covered these in school but if you feel you … Continue reading
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Tagged angles, christmas tree, online advent calendar
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Rudolph the Read Knows Rain, Dear! Solution
Welcome to Better Tuition‘s online advent calendar. Yesterday, we asked you to spot the spelling errors in our Better Tuition Christmas Spelling Challenge: did you identify and correct the misspellings in the well-known Christmas songs and phrases? Here is the solution. Ready? … Continue reading
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Tagged advent calendar, Christmas spellings, proof reading, spelling
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Advent Calendar December 1st: Rudolph the Read Knows Rain, Dear!
It’s already December the first: time to enjoy Better Tuition‘s online advent calendar. Spot the spelling errors in our Better Tuition Christmas Spelling Challenge: can you identify and correct the misspellings in these well known Christmas songs and phrases? There are 12 incorrectly used words – … Continue reading
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Tagged advent calendar, Christmas, KEY Stage 2, spelling
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