Clara James Tutoring

Does your child struggle with maths or English?

Do they bring homework home which they struggle to do and you struggle to help them with?

If so we can help.

The lessons are influenced by my history of working for the past 16 years in childcare settings ranging from school classrooms, Autism basis, Early Years settings, as a childminder and as an NVQ assessor. My degree is on childcare and Education but I have also attended a lot of additional training and done a lot of additional research especially in the field of Dyslexia.

In 2015 I had my first book published on supporting children with reading and spelling difficulties.
This year I have also written a correspondence course on supporting children with dyslexia.

You can also read our e-book on supporting children with learning their times tables through the use of games and making the whole experience fun.

Parents can also receive regular emails offering additional advice on how to support their children with Maths and English and have set up a Facebook group in the recent weeks offering support to parents when their children are struggling with their homework. (This is FREE to anyone so please get in touch if you are interested)

Through these I also keep parents up to date on any additional courses that I am running.

I have three children of my own, my oldest is now 21 and working full time and my son (20) is starting UEA in September after a gap year in Australia. My youngest daughter is going to be starting an internship this year at the Houses of Parliament.

Over the past 16 years I have worked in many educational settings (both mainstream and with special needs children). I have also worked as an NVQ assessor in Early Years Education.

For the past 5 years my main employment has been as tutor and my reputation built up my business very quickly. We are now a team of tutors who each strive to be the best at what they do.

I am a strong believer that when people are both relaxed and interested they will be more able to learn.

During the first lesson the tutee will be given a stationary pack containing everything they will need for the lessons so there will be no further expense to you.

The studying and research that I have done over the years also clearly demonstrates that people have many learning styles, and also benefit from a range of approaches to learning. Therefore, I would aim to use creative ideas, games and activities to assist the learner with their learning (appropriate to their age and ability) again to encourage the child so that they not only enjoy the activities but are also in a better mind set to enjoy learn from the lessons.

Lessons are always related to something which is of interest to the learner (for example if I was writing a lesson plan for a child about writing stories who had a particular interest in cars, we would use that as a starting point and perhaps use a car as a focal point / key character within the story.

I would be keen to receive feedback from both the learner (and parent where applicable) and use this to guide the direction that the course of lessons take, ensuring the lessons were flexible and meet that individual learners need, whilst working alongside what the child is working on in their school classroom.

With adults my intentions will still be that of trying to make the lessons enjoyable and using a lot of (card, dice, board), etc)games and activities in order to encourage a relaxed atmosphere and approach so that you are in a better frame of mind to learn.

With students doing their GCSE's the lessons revolve very much around creating mind maps, working through examples and focused games which you get you thinking about both the answers and the methods. The student will also be given handouts to assist them with their revision. During the initial lesson, we will talk about the areas the student wants to focus to help with revision.

With any lesson I will email a lesson plan prior to the day of the lesson so that the (parents and/or) student is aware of what will be studied during the lesson.

If you're interested send me an email at: info@starrtutoring.co.uk or for more information visit:

http://www.dawnstrachan.com/ and we will do our upmost to help

I look forward to speaking to you soon