Hi. Wanted to get peoples' opinions on whether I should persevere to find
decent tutor for dd or work with her myself?
Dd is y5 in a very poor performing school and, although top of her class, has never been given particularly challenging work ie she always gets either top marks or just misses a couple so I figure this must mean she could do harder stuff. Her school are in dire straits so no point talking to them. Things have been bad for a few years.
We have done stuff at home already and she got 90% in a verbal reasoning paper I gave her recently. We had a tutor last year who kept cancelling and when we had her recently, for the first time in ages, she clearly had no clue about the entrance exams and winged the lesson. I cancelled her as not paying 30 quid for this! I found someone else and we met with them today. This person uses exactly the same books we already have at home and didn't seem any more experienced than me.
All the good tutors seem to be booked and I don't want to pay for something I can do myself.
However, I was never taught grammar at school and my maths is rusty so I am worried I won't be able to get her up to the standard required especially as she will be competing against children in good or outstanding schools, preps etc and with tutors.
Our local secondary school is poor so I really want her to have a chance.
Her school levels are 4c for writing and maths and 4a for reading although she got near full marks for two lots of optional sats last year (4a) and more recently got 5b for sat paper in reading. She had about 20 supply teachers last year and no long term teacher.
Does she stand a chance with me tutoring her? I work full time but she does enjoy working with me and responds well.
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