7+ and choice of tutors

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Please ma I ask for your wisdom? I have contacted several tutors but not many tutors are available. I have one young girl with limited experience but £10.00 ph abou 0.5 miles from my house ( I thought to ask her to do 1 hours on purely hand writing + reading + writing new words in to the vocabulary book) and one tutor (25 ph) for more academic maths/ English writing work once a week. The problem is that I work full time and on some days I do not have time even to sit for 1 hour. WHat do you think of the ideas of using a cheaper tutor just for handwriting and reading/ vocabulary and other tutor for more academic work? I would prefer I think to use a tutor with primary teaching experience but I have not found one...

It depends on what you are trying to do with your child. How far do you think s/he is from the level s/he needs to be? How much time do you have?

Last year a friend tutored her state educated DS for very competitive 7+ - so he needed to cover a lot of material to close the gap between state Y2 vs. 7+. She used several different tutors - and as far as I could see the poor boy was quite overwhelmed.

If it wasn't a question of money, I'd have the same tutor and figure out whether once or twice a week is best. If you are not home to supervise the homework that the tutor sets - you'll need to make sure that someone does that.

If it is a money issue - I'd link what the tutors do. The more academic tutor can cover new material, set homework. The other one - can work on that homework. This way, hopefully, s/he will not get conflicting directions.

Good luck!