Step Ahead Tutoring And Educational Services

Early Steps

 

Happy Easter, readers !

As has become our mantra ("creating transformation"), we take a great deal of care and pride in selecting the most suitable tutor for each and every client.  We believe that if we get the selection correct, great things can happen.  The following testimonial, recently received, bears witness to this thinking:

" It was clear from the first teaching session that James felt comfortable sharing his concerns and asking questions. After only eight weeks of tutoring, we've seen James become more confident in his learning at school, more assertive in his decision making and overall a happier boy!

As parents, it's also a learning experience, and supporting James with his work is both challenging and rewarding. Although there's still work to do, it's so encouraging to see such a difference in the early stages of James' Step Ahead journey.  Many thanks. "

Credit where credit is due

 

School holidays for most youngsters - some preparing for exams, some taking advantage of not being at school and getting day-time tutoring sessions, some away on holiday - is the pattern for Step Ahead tutees at present.

Tutors regularly inform us of progress being made - as do parents, and it has been a particularly positive period recently, with a number of very satisfied clients reporting on seeing quite a difference in their youngsters. 

Examples of this are : the mum of James S told us that she is delighted that "the overall attitude of (her) son has improved so much and that he is far more focused on his school work."  The dad of Haroon avowed that he wants his son to continue with Step Ahead for "a long time to come,"  while Rowan's family are so impressed with the confidence that she is now showing, believing that she can do things which she previously doubted.

As we have stated on many occasions, and as hundreds of testimonials have recorded, it is a huge feature of Step Ahead that our tutors are able to build self-esteem and confidence in their tutees in order to help them achieve their potential. 

So it is big congratulations to our tutors this week in that all indicators suggest that you are certainly achieving that crucial aim.

 

April Showers

 

We were looking up some information about 1st April and on Weather Lore :

 

Did you get caught out last week on 1st April? 

April Fools' Day is celebrated in different countries around the world on April 11 every year. Sometimes referred to as All Fools' Day, April 1 is not a national holidayy, but is widely recognized and celebrated as a day when many people play all kinds of jokes and foolishness. The day is marked by the commission of good humoured or funny jokes, hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, family members, teachers, neighbours, work associates, etc.

 

APRIL showers bring MAY flowers

 

Red sky at night, shepherd's delight,   Red sky in the morning, shepherd's warning

 

Rain before seven, clear by eleven

 

March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb.

 

If on February 2 (Groundhog Day in the United States and Canada) the groundhog sees its shadow, thirty days of winter remain. If not, spring will follow immediately.

 

If clouds move against the wind, rain will follow.

 

A cow with its tail to the West makes the weather best,

A cow with its tail to the East makes the weather least.