150 Study Points Trophy
This academic year is barely two days old but that hasn’t stopped one of our students from achieving. While many children were taking the vacation time to catch up on the latest computer game Jacob was knuckling down to ready himself for the new year. At XtraMile Tuition our students receive rewards for effort and Jacob received his first trophy for gaining 150 Study Points. Well Done Jacob!
Well, if your child was an average student last year chances are they will be an average student this year. If they struggled with maths last year they will probably be struggling with maths this year. Nothing changes unless something changes. What has to change to improve your child’s grades?
The first thing that must change is someone’s attitude. Children are children and they will not change unless they are give a reason to change. Telling them to do better or to change their ways will probably not get the result you as a parent desires mainly because they do not know how to change. They are children, they are young and therefore have a limited frame of reference when it comes to change. They have to be taught how to change. At this stage the biggest change has to be in you as a parent. You have to make the decisions for them and then guide them along the path.
One of the biggest problems I see in the students who attend tuition is they have problems with weak foundations. They simply do not know their multiplication tables up to their year level and they do not have in place a memory of subtraction and addition of the numbers up to twenty (20). No matter how well a student understands the mathematical concept they are being taught at school if they cannot perform the foundations I spoke about they will not be able to solve the maths problem. Continually getting the wrong answer whittles away at their confidence.
Every student who attends our tuition spends at least ten minutes of every hour building upon their foundation knowledge. You cannot have lasting structure without strong foundations.
This morning I left Ethel Windmark’s house at 100 Woodleaf Court, Leafy Gully and set out for a life of crime in the forest that grows thick and dark in the gully. I am a strong, energetic, angry sheep and my name is not Vivian, even if old Ethel tells her friends that it is, and I am never going to forgive her for dyeing my fleecy wool a horrible bright pink. No sooner had I reached the first row of giant eucalypts when I saw a large spotted cat who mistook me for food. We became a great crime team, making midnight raids on the local residents, rattling their bins, stealing sausages and growling (and bleating) all night long. A life of crime has worked out perfectly for me.
The Tutor’s answer to the duelling story (see Stealing Lollies)
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All through the hot summer, the tiny cheetah lived unhappily in a stinky council rescue centre where he was born. He was a harmless, spotty cheetah and every day he tried to break out. One day he escaped and ran until he arrived in a forest in a place called Leafy Gully and mysteriously, the first thing he saw was a pink sheep.
“Join my gang and we will steal all the delicious food in Leafy Gully and we can steal candy from little kids and make them cry,” said the cheetah.
The cheetah lived happily in the thick forest and stole food with the pink sheep.
Robby, aged 11
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On a beautiful sunny day in spring when the flowers bloomed and nature sprung, a small fish swam in a little tiny pond at the beach. He was blue in colour and he was feeling bored because the tide went out and left him with only a miniature pond to swim in. He decided to walk out of the annoying pond but, as he didn’t have any legs, he couldn’t get out and he knew that there were people with buckets, spades and worst of all, fish nets. He thought that maybe he could fly with the wind and so he tried and tried and tried. Then he remembered the tide would come back in and bring him to a bigger pond.
Jayden aged 9, 13/11/2013.
Part of the Creative Writing Program offered by Lynette at XtraMile Tuition Strategies.
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