Jack was happily in his secret basement on Monday morning. Jack’s superhero name was Night Fighter and he was cooking breakfast until … beep! beep! Beep! … “Oh No!” the city was in trouble. Night Fighter suited up and flew to the city to see his old enemy called Death Shot had escaped. Night Fighter put his knockout darts in his gun and waited until he saw the T-Rex looking straight at him. Suddenly he wished he had stayed at home in his secret basement.
Alex G (aged 8)
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Long ago Ninja Cat lived in a big trash can in the middle of a sunny day but at night she went out to fight. She was a maroon cat in a little black suit who loved to do ninja stuff and when she grew up her dreams came true. She had a call from a little girl who was stuck in a house that was falling down. Ninja Cat got there in a dash and flew in the air and grabbed the little girl. Ninja Cat sometimes missed her old trash can but not that day.
Georgie (aged 7)
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Long ago Blood-eater was a dragon who lived on an island that was surrounded by monsters and volcanoes that spewed out lava. Blood-eater was a green villain who sucked blood from superheros. He saw police on his island and got scared but he remembered he could suck blood out of the police. Then the police shot the bullets that makes dragons good and he hugged the police. Blood-eater went back home to his island of monsters and waited until the good bullets wore off.
Ari (aged 8)
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As the village woke to the sound of a rundown crow the sun started its slow journey across the sky. A fire started in the grimy blacksmith’s shop as a poor but honest man began his dawn to dust effort. He passed a dirt encrusted window and in the corner of his eye observed the familiar castle that loomed over the poor village and was surrounded by a ten metre stone wall. An old widow draped in a thread bear sack begged the blacksmith to fix her rusty hole-ridden cauldron. “I can’t pay you.” she said, but the blacksmith followed quickly by saying “Pay me when you can.” As she hobbled away the blacksmith sighed and thought to himself that the only reason the village could not pay for his services was because of the dreadful king’s exorbitant taxes.
by Jack (aged 10)
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The process of choosing a tutor can be daunting and confusing. Generally when a parent is told by a teacher their child is struggling it comes as sudden news to the parent but has been viewed as a gradual process by the teacher or various teachers. One wonders why measures were not taken sooner to halt this process.
For whatever reason your student now requires tuition so how do you choose? I have seen many one-on-one tutors who do very fine work helping the student with maths at their current level and at times this is successful. School results improve and grades come up, but this system has its limitations.
Learning maths is a progressive process building upon previous knowledge of various maths strands until eventually the student is able to solve complex problems by drawing on their various knowledge strands. If there is a hole in their knowledge strands this makes solving these complex problems more difficult. This hole may have appeared years before and not been repaired.
The tuition process you choose should be able to identify these knowledge holes and plug them. By doing this your student is armed with complete knowledge that allows them to move to the top percentage of their class.
Your tutor should be able to identify the time when your child started to have difficulties; set up a program to begin at the point of trouble; move progressively forward plugging up other holes as they are identified; monitor the student’s progress (we do ours daily); provide progressive reports (our parents receive monthly progress reports on students); and set goals that engage and reward students (this keeps them motivated).
This method takes time but produces the best long term results.
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