Effective tutoring is all about starting off your lessons right and making sure your students feel comfortable and ready to learn. With the right combination of activities, you can ensure your students are fully engaged and prepared for your lesson. Here are five of our favourite ice breaker ideas for your next lesson!

Tutorfair student Edwin tells us about his experience working with Tutorfair and our amazing partner, Urban Promise.

A volunteer with Tutorfair Foundation for over two years, Maths Circles mentor and now a trainee science teacher, Rebecca tells us a little about her experience working with us.

While we’re often quick to blame smartphones, there are other educational “enemies” lurking in the classroom and at home. But how can tutors use these distractions to their advantage?

In recent years, the ever-present exam stress has been made even more difficult by a number of factors, from distractions, to mental health worries, to problems faced outside school.

If you are tutoring homeschooled students and want to help maximise their learning, there are ways to make a home learning environment more productive and stimulating. Here are some of our favourite tips.

2024 was a truly extraordinary year for our charity. We faced substantial adversity, but having overcome our challenges, we now have more people than ever in our community, ready to tackle 2025 head-on!

Celebrating the end of a fantastic year for the Foundation - and looking ahead to a very exciting 2025!

Achieving transformational change through education, employability and cultural enrichment activities.

Tutorfair Foundation is incredibly proud to support Chapter One by connecting tutors from our amazing community to their volunteering programme.

Meet some of the fantastic Mentors delivering our 2024/25 Maths Circles programme.

This year, we celebrate 3 years of collaboration with Urban Promise UK – a charity supporting children and young people in Barking and Dagenham.

How we’ve supported more than 200 high-attaining mathematicians since January this year.

Our classroom software, Lessonspace, is packed with handy features designed to enhance your teaching experience…

Our volunteers have gone above and beyond this term to provide support to our sixth form learners — here’s what the student have had to say about the support they’ve provided…

Tutorfair Foundation are inviting high-attaining year 7 and 8 students to join our exciting new ‘Maths Circles’.

The summer break is a great opportunity to consolidate what you’ve learned in the first half of your course; to recap and refresh your memory…

Another academic year draws to a close at Tutorfair Foundation - but school’s not out for the summer just yet!

The exam period is often a stressful time of year for students. Whether exams give you nervous butterflies or send you into a full-on panic, there are steps you can take to calm yourself down…

There are tons of resources out there for teaching English Literature - especially for the most popular exam boards, OCR and AQA…