Creative writing…
One of our students recently created the most magical story book as part of her creative writing project at Elisa’s Tutorial School. Using the story planning technique she has written [ . . . ]
Month: October 2018
Google has turned learning on its head…it’s time we caught up!
When was the last time you wanted to know something and didn’t Google it? Or use whatever equivalent search engine to find the answer? In fact, Googling has become the [ . . . ]
Adolescent brain and learning.
We expect a lot from teenagers. Teen suicide rates are soaring, and they increase during the school year and drop during vacations. This tells us something, surely, about how much [ . . . ]
Mysterious Wings by Maryam A. Hussain, a pupil at Elisa’s Tutorial School
At Elisa’s Tutorial School we encourage independent work and writing projects to embed the learning and writing techniques learnt in our group and one-to-one teaching. One of our pupils, aged [ . . . ]
Noises in the night…celebrating pupil Marta Boczkowska’s poem
Welcome to this week’s post which celebrates the wonderful poem of one of our pupils at Elisa’s Tutorial School. Marta Boczkowska, aged 10, wrote a wonderful poem called Noises in [ . . . ]
Beautiful sample work by our pupils.
The Moon activity books, downloadable from my website, are available for sale. The activities within these books have inspired pupils to do work of their own away from our teaching [ . . . ]
Quentin Blake’s Magnificent Illustrations
For someone who was never trained in art and instead read English at Cambridge, Sir Quentin Blake is one of the most distinctive artists in the world. Not only were [ . . . ]