Building a Strong Foundation: 5 Benefits of KS1 Private Tuition
Introduction: How KS1 Private Tuition Can Help
Building a strong foundation in the early years of education is crucial for a child's future academic success. KS1, or Key Stage 1, is a pivotal stage in a child's learning journey, encompassing essential skills in literacy, numeracy, and basic science.
One highly effective way to enhance your child's KS1 learning experience is through private tuition. In this post, we explore 5 key benefits of KS1 private tuition and how it can reinforce your child’s KS1 education. With personalised attention and tailored 7+ exam preparation programmes, KS1 private tuition is a great way to build on your child’s studies and keep KS1 learning fun and engaging.
Whether your child just needs extra support with their schoolwork or is ready to be challenged further and start prep for competitive school entrance exams, KS1 private tuition could be the key to unlocking their full potential.
1. Solidifying KS1 Learning:
KS1 private tuition offers the opportunity to reinforce and build on the KS1 education your child receives at school. KS1 learning is when your child is taught the foundations of everything they will go on to learn. Build a strong foundation here and you set them up well for everything else that follows.
With KS1 private tuition, your child has the opportunity to practise and reinforce what they have learned at school on a 1:1 basis. This ensures they master essential numeracy skills, like number sense, and literacy skills (e.g. phonics, writing fluency, reading abilities). They can also be supported with KS1 private tuition in basic science. A KS1 tutor therefore operates in parallel to the KS1 education syllabus, building your child’s problem solving skills, communication skills and confidence to put them in good stead for later learning or entrance exams.
2. Personalised attention and feedback with KS1 private tuition
With KS1 private tuition, your child receives tailored feedback and support. Working one-to-one with a tutor, sessions can be completely personalised and targeted to the areas your child most needs. If your child is struggling with one area of their KS1 education, a tutor is the perfect way to support them with their studies. With KS1 private tuition, a tutor will come up with a structured plan to work on and strengthen the areas your child finds difficult. This individual support quickly helps them improve and stay on track.
Equally, if your child is confident with their KS1 learning, then KS1 private tuition offers them the opportunity to be pushed and challenged in a healthy way that aids their development as a learner. This allows them to start going beyond the syllabus and get ahead for potential future competitive school applications.
Looking for support with KS1 learning?
Are you searching for a way to enhance your child's KS1 education? U2 Tuition offers personalised KS1 private tuition tailored to meet your child's needs.
Our experienced tutors focus on reinforcing and building on your child’s studies, ensuring a solid grasp of essential numeracy, literacy, and basic science concepts. We also empower young learners, introducing them early to necessary test strategies and practice for 7+ and 11+ entrance exams.
Get in touch to be matched with the right tutor for your child and build a strong foundation for their future success.
3. KS1 Private Tuition fosters a lifelong love of learning
A good KS1 tutor recognises the importance of making learning fun and engaging. With KS1 private tuition, you can work to transform your child’s attitude towards studying, turning sessions into something they look forward to, receiving personalised attention. With hands-on, playful sessions, tutors make KS1 learning engaging, interactive and enjoyable. Building a love of learning from a young age creates an incredibly valuable foundation that sets students up well for the rest of their academic career and beyond.
In this more informal learning environment, students can be encouraged to develop their learning beyond the syllabus. As part of KS1 private tuition, tutors will assess the student’s level and find a healthy level of stretch and challenge activities to encourage them to develop as a learner, for example more advanced reading texts and more challenging comprehension or problem solving exercises.
This puts students in a great position in getting ahead with preparation for potential 7+ or even 11+ entrance exams.
Find out more about the tailored 7+ tuition we offer here.
4. Preparing your child for 7+ exams and beyond with KS1 Private tuition
If your child is planning to sit the 7+ entrance exam then KS1 private tuition can be great preparation. A KS1 tutor will be experienced in leading students to success in their 7+ entrance exams. By starting early, a tutor can form a target tuition plan to ensure your child is confident in all areas of the 7+ exam, solidifying their English and Maths skills and teaching them how to excel in verbal and non-verbal reasoning if necessary.
A tutor can help your child practise 7+ exams, offering test taking strategies and helping them develop their time management skills for the exam. They can also work on honing interview technique and practising common 7+ interview questions. With tailored feedback and a personalised preparation programme, your child will quickly improve. If you’d like to find out more about mastering the 7+ entrance exams, you can read our blog post here.
You can also find out more about our tailored 7+ tuition programmes and resources here.
KS1 private tuition is also great way to gradually prepare students for 11+ exams, building on their KS1 learning to ensure they are in a strong position when it comes to sitting tests for year 7 entry. KS1 private tuition empowers young learners to develop independently outside of their KS1 education and to start to stretch them beyond the syllabus.
5. KS1 Private Tuition offers flexibility and convenience for families
With KS1 private tuition, your child can learn online or in-person from home. Rather than in the classroom, KS1 private tuition allows students to learn from the comfort of their home environment where they have access to their own games and resources, ensuring learning remains fun. With U2 tuitions, sessions can be arranged flexibly - timing is discussed between the family and tutor.
KS1 private tuition also means you know your child’s KS1 learning is being supported and taken care of by a highly experienced tutor, taking some of the burden of homework help and extra academic support off of you. This not only benefits your child but also provides you with the peace of mind and extra time to focus on other aspects of family life.
Looking for KS1 private tuition to support your child?
U2 Tuition has a team of Oxbridge-educated tutors who specialise in KS1 private tuition, ensuring that your child receives the highest quality KS1 education support. Each session is tailored to meet your child's specific needs, reinforcing KS1 education, preparing for school entrance exams and building a solid foundation for future academic success.
The Process:
1) In a free initial consultation with one of our educational consultants, you will discuss your child’s KS1 education needs. Based on this assessment, you will be matched with a suitable tutor and sent their full CV for review.
2) We typically recommend starting with a diagnostic session where the tutor can assess the student’s level, identify areas in need of improvement and come up with a targeted preparation plan which you will be sent. We will check you are happy with the tutor before moving on to future sessions.
3) You can determine the frequency of sessions. We recommend regular, ongoing sessions to aid your child’s development and support their KS1 learning but you may prefer more intensive, targeted exam prep sessions in the build up to 7+ entrance exams. We offer sessions online or in-person, or a hybrid mix of both. All our KS1 private tuition sessions are highly interactive and engaging and ensure your child receives plenty of feedback and personalised attention.
KS1 private tuition is an investment in your child’s future; our tutors build a strong foundation to allow them to excel.