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Home Education Explained: What Parents Need to Consider Before Starting

Legislation This is expected to be introduced, possibly in Autumn 2025, under the proposed Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. While details are still emerging, it is anticipated that home education will feature significantly. At Learn…

Making the Months to GCSE Count

With many of our year 11 students having taken their mocs in the last couple of weeks, everything is probably starting to feel very real. Some students will be delighted…

How safe is Tuition?

Without doubt, our children are our most prize possession. There is nothing we wouldn’t do to protect and keep them safe. As parents, we expect anyone who works with our…

Exam Results – A Message from Glynn…

Thursday 24th August 2023 is a date in most teenagers diary as it’s GCSE results day. Up and down the country, there will be nerves, butterflies, excitement, jubilation and possibly…

Maintaining and Growing Your Child’s Education Levels Over the Summer Holidays

As the summer holiday fast approaches and schools prepare to close their doors until September, parents often wonder how they can ensure their children continue to progress academically during this…

GCSE Top Tips for Pupils and Parents

With the GCSE’s taking place in the coming weeks, we thought we’d put together a few top tips to help both pupils and parents during this time. Remember, we are…

GUEST BLOG | My child won’t revise – HELP!

Written by Glynn Hayball Across the country there is shouting, door slamming, and temper tantrums.  What is it that unites the country?  Football? Rugby? A new government initiative?  No, dear…

End of Year Reports – The Highs and Lows

Receiving your child’s report at the end of a school year is full of mixed emotions. For some parents, it simply confirms what they already knew, for some their expectation…

Online or Face-to-Face Tuition – which is best?

Up until Covid, I had never even considered online to be an option for Learn and Bloom. Now 3 years on, and many thousands of hours on Zoom later, I…

What should ‘reading at home’ look like?

I’m sure you have heard from your child’s school “Read every night at home”, but why do we say that and what can it actually look like? Reading is one…