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What are the SATs about?

What are the SATs about?

Key Stages 1 and 2, the primary SATs exams, are supposed to be used to grade the standard of teaching provided by schools rather than your child’s academic progress, but at First Tutors we understand how they can seem to be a way to test and draw together your child’s acade...

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Finding a Primary Maths tutor

Finding a Primary Maths tutor

Finding the right private tutor to help your child with Key Stage 2 Maths can be difficult, especially when there are so many options out there. These 5 steps aim to offer useful advice so that you can find the Mathematics tutoring your child needs.

1) Make up your mi...

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Finding a Primary English tutor

Finding a Primary English tutor

With so many organisations and individuals claiming to offer high-quality tuition, it's not always easy to know where to turn. However, there are plenty of ways to divide the wheat from the chaff. Here are 5 tips to help you find the Primary English tutor right for y...

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Preparing for primary SATs

How to tackle SATs revision

Although primary SATs exams are supposed to assess the school rather than your child, we appreciate and sympathise that you may see primary SATs exams as a trigger for examining your child's learning. It isn't revision as such, but rather a test to show what has been mis...

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