Category: General

School and its hierarchical system may sometimes provide a distorted impression of what ‘success’ is for a student. Succeeding isn’t about the exam, the mark, and certainly not about a form of competition with others. Nailing an exam, obtaining the best mark, isn’t just about the student, but also about a lot of factors that […]

Poppy shares her (nostalgic) book suggestions for teenagers

Sebastian, one of our geography tutors, offers his top tips for exam success

Making Changes That’ll Change Your Life

Naran, a maths teacher, shares some lessons he has learnt from recent GCSE reforms

My old school has invited me to return and deliver lectures to my colleagues – the teachers in the English department– on grammar

Starting school can be a difficult time for everyone involved. Here are some tips that will make the first few weeks of school easier for you, your child and their teacher!

Children have many languages that they use to communicate; one of their languages is visual art.

My experience has taught me that every child can do maths.

We are very excited to announce that Newman Tuition has been shortlisted for Work Avenue’s ‘Business of the Year’ Award. It is a great honour (especially as we didn’t even know we had been nominated!). The awards evening, celebrating 10 years of outstanding community work by Work Avenue, takes place on Monday 19th June. We […]

During half-term we held an extremely successful wellbeing workshop titled ‘A Positive Mindset to Exams’. The main things the students said they took away from the session were identifying and using their strengths; managing their stress/anxiety with mindfulness; and developing a growth mindset. One student wrote: “It was a very well structured session. I discovered […]