Breadcrumbs
The Student Support Centre's programmes can be a help to parents as well as children
June 2010
Maggie (10 years old), from Brighton, has been using The Student Support Centre’s ‘simply’ maths and English programmes for just over two years. She recently wrote in to the Southern office ‘to say a big thank you to the whole of The Student Support Centre not only from me but from everyone who is doing the course’ and to tell them that she was delighted with the glowing school report she had received.
Maggie’s mother has seen Maggie’s confidence grow enormously since starting the ‘simply’ programmes. She finds that the best feature of the ‘simply’ programmes is their flexibility and the fact that Maggie can fit her studies around other extra-curricular activities. The family had thought about getting a private tutor but instead chose the ‘simply’ programmes due to their convenient structure. Maggie works through the programmes about two to three times per week and her mother is keen to emphasise that Maggie does this of her own accord and feels under no pressure or time constraints.
The ‘simply’ programmes fit in perfectly with the family’s busy schedule and complement what Maggie is learning during the day at school. As her mother says: ‘Maggie can go home and work through the topic and consolidate her understanding and knowledge at her own pace.’
The ‘simply’ programmes also apparently act as a useful reference for Maggie’s mother, leading on to the fact that the teaching methods used when many parents were at school, particularly in maths, vary greatly to those used today, resulting in parents often looking for additional pointers in how to support their children’s learning. Maggie’s mother’s experience also exemplifies how parents can familiarise themselves with concepts as well as the new methods and, in doing so, support their children using the ‘simply’ programmes. This in turn supports educational research documents which emphasise the strong link between parental involvement in their child’s education and the child’s academic achievement. 1
Overall, Maggie and her mother have found their experience of using the ‘simply’ programmes to be an extremely positive one and have no hesitation in recommending the programmes to others, because, as Maggie’s mother says, ‘as every child is different, the flexibility of the programmes offers the perfect solution for home tutoring needs.’
About The Student Support Centre:
The Student Support Centre opened its doors in 1991 and has since become the largest provider of home-based tuition programmes with 9 regional offices across the UK.
Our ‘simply’ programmes provide home-based tuition and support for children aged between 4 and 17 and may be a more cost effective alternative to private tutors for learning maths, English and reading. They have been designed to mirror the way in which children are taught in schools based on the National Curriculum requirements and use the teaching methods currently recommended for use in schools.
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1 From J. Reynolds, ‘Parents’ involvement in their children’s learning and school’, Family & Parenting Institute (2005)
