Prep for Year 7

Prep for Year 7 Group Classes

Our Prep for Y7 classes will start in November 2024 and run until July 2025 and are open to students in Year 6. We aim to introduce early elements of the KS3 curriculum in a fun and interactive way, aiming to close the gap between primary and secondary education. Home-educated and school-educated students are welcome to join us.

These classes include a PDF downloadable resource booklet and a topic list that all students are sent and we welcome students to join us throughout the course.

For this year - 2024/2025 - our resource booklet will be combined for all three subjects. You can see a sample of last years’ below.

Classes are £20ph (no more than 6 students) and includes your downloadable PDF resource booklet for the course. They will take place on a Saturday morning at 9:30am with Lucy, our Director.

Please email us if you’d like to register your interest.

Prep for Y7 Science

Our classes look at all three sciences - Biology, Chemistry and Physics, in a fun and interactive way.

Topics include:

  • Biology - Cells and their functions, Diet, Digestion, Plants and Animals, Food webs and classification

  • Chemistry - Classifying materials, The Periodic Table of Elements, The Rock Cycle and Chemical reactions

  • Physics - Electromagnetism, Current and Voltage, Friction and turning forces and The Solar System

Prep for Y7 English

Over the course of our lessons, students will cover a wide variety of topics including creative writing, comprehension, spelling & grammar and language techniques.

Topics include:

  • Language choice and Word classes

  • Comprehension techniques - inferential, analytical and extraction questions

  • Tackling unfamiliar language

  • Characters and settings

  • Fiction and Non-Fiction texts

  • Shakespeare

Prep for Y7 Mathematics

We’ll run through some of the early KS3 topics for mathematics to prepare for a flying start to Year 7.

Topics include:

  • Ratio

  • LCM & HCF

  • Algebra - Simultaneous equations, solving equations, nth term and collecting like terms

  • Pythagoras Theorem

  • Speed, Distance & Time

  • Volume - cuboids and prisms

General Group Class Info

Our weekly online classes run from KS1 to GCSE and iGCSE Level courses. We run on Zoom and use interactive teaching aids such as BitPaper online whiteboards, screen sharing and online interactive team games.

  • Maximum of six students per regular weekly group class

  • Individual attention, due to a low number of students participating

  • We run classes, even if they have less than six students (some classes are quieter than others)

  • Homework is set each week - this is either emailed over to you or can be accessed directly from your lesson link

  • A lesson report is sent after each lesson, detailing what has been covered in your lesson and giving details of the homework set

  • Pay-per-class, no monthly commitment and free cancellation outside of our 24-hour notice period

  • All of are teachers are qualified, fully DBS checked and come with outstanding references from previous schools and employers

  • You can book your child into every week by contacting us or you can book ad-hoc lessons by using our booking link on our website - www.tutortastic.co.uk/book