Find your teacher
Look through the profiles of relevant tutors. They are all qualified and experienced teachers, up-to-date, safe, reliable, and available to provide tuition for your child.
Invite tutors to contact you. You are not committing to any lessons, just having an initial chat to see if they are a good fit for your needs. If you are unsure what to say or ask, use this guide to your introductory call.
If ready, start tuition with your tutor. Fees are paid after each lesson by a secure online card payment. You are in control; you can check and approve lesson payments and stop tuition at any time.
If you are in the process of choosing a tutor for your child, then it is a good idea to organise an initial introductory call or meeting with them (face-to-face or online). This will enable you to learn more about their character, qualifications, experience and teaching style, and you will be better able to assess whether they are a good fit for your child.
This introductory call or initial meeting should take around 20 minutes. Feel free to include your child in this call (if they are of suitable age) as you want to see if there is a good rapport.
(1) Ask the tutor to introduce themself to you in much more detail and talk through their teaching style and experience.
(2) Discuss your child’s needs and the purpose and ambition for the tuition.
(3) Provide the tutor with any further details they need regarding the role, such as the age and year group of your child, their school, any relevant exam board or exam dates, and any specific SEN, EHCP, or diagnostic reports.
(4) Ask the tutor how they might initially assess your child and how they would implement a plan to measure progress.
(5) Be clear about your own expectations around setting work and whether you want the tutor to provide and mark any structured homework.
(6) Clarify whether you want the tutor to liaise directly with your child's school and class teacher.
(7) Confirm the timings, timescale and location of the tuition if it is face-to-face.
At the end of the call, confirm any next steps.
If you decide that this tutor is the right fit for your tuition needs, you may wish to arrange a first lesson with them ... or if you want some time to think about it, please tell the tutor that you will get back to them.
If you plan a first lesson, agree on a time and location that works for both of you and discuss what to expect from that first lesson.
Establish some ground rules. You should be able to give 'reasonable' notice to your tutor should you need to cancel a lesson with them. Please clarify how you will communicate with your tutor if this happens (text, voicemail, e-mail). Most tutors will expect 24 hours’ notice, though understand that it is not always possible to give this (e.g. last-minute illness). This reasonable notice also applies if your tutor needs to cancel a lesson due to unforeseen circumstances.
Concerning safeguarding, tuition (home or online) should always occur in a supervised setting, i.e. with a parent, guardian or carer also present in the home.
Confirm their availability for your preferred lesson times.
Be around for the first few lessons and listen in on the teaching and learning.
Talk with your child after each lesson and watch their response to it. Though your child may initially be nervous or unenthusiastic, you should quickly begin to see a positive response from them.
With many years of experience teaching children on a one-to-one basis, we know that children often make remarkable progress in only a few weeks. Ability, self-belief, confidence, enjoyment … all begin to take root and grow.
You can create a group and share the costs of your tuition fees with friends or other families.
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Teachers To Your Home specialises in connecting you to local Poole-based teachers. We provide tutoring for all subjects and ages, but have the most experience and teachers in the following subject areas:
We connect you to the best teachers who work across several of the best primary and secondary schools in Poole (some detailed below). This means we can reliably provide you with a local and experienced tutor that fits your needs.
Poole primary school performance:
The Poole area has 33 primary schools (one of the top being Baden-Powell and St Peter's Church of England Junior School with 28% of pupils achieving at a higher standard).
From their latest Oftsed report: “High-quality systems for managing and checking all aspects of the school’s work ensure improvement planning is well targeted at weaker areas. These are then successfully addressed. The school is already tackling the weaker aspects identified during this inspection. It is exceptionally well placed to improve further. â€
The Poole local authority has an average of 67% of students meeting the expected standards in reading, writing, and maths at primary school age (vs England's average of 65%). And has an average of 12% achieving higher standard (vs England's average of 11%).
Poole secondary school performance:
The Poole area has 12 secondary schools (one of the top being Poole Grammar School with 93% of pupils achieving grade 5 or above in English and Maths GCSEs).
From their latest Oftsed report: “Disadvantaged pupils’ progress has fluctuated in recent years. Senior leaders’ actions to improve the progress of disadvantaged pupils have been largely successful. However, the progress of a minority remains too slow.â€
The Poole local authority has an average of 51% of students achieving grade 5 or above in English and Maths GCSEs (vs England's average of 43%). And has an average of % of students either staying in education or entering employment after GCSEs (vs England's average of 94%).
Poole Ofsted ratings:
78% of Poole schools have received at least a 'Good' Ofsted rating, with 6 schools receiving an 'Outstanding' rating in their last evaluation.
Source: Gov.UK Website
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