Summer Tutoring

Nicole Gilbert • March 8, 2024

Success over summer

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Summer tutoring is a vital component to student academic success. Students who continue to follow a reading and math program during the “dog days of summer” are better equipped upon their return to school in the fall. It’s easy during the relaxing days of summer to let the gains we have made in the last academic year slip away. Students find themselves drawing blanks as they try and recall their multiplication timetables, and frustrated, they feel as though they are starting all over again. Keeping up with a moderate reading program is superb for honing spelling skills as well as expanding a student’s vocabulary repertoire. Reading also offers content on which a student can write and comment if so inclined; this helps increase the opportunity for writing.
 
If we can be of help, book a consultation and we can set your child on a summer study schedule which will prepare them for their fall studies, no matter what level they are at.

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