We are delighted to have helped children from 27 families this academic year.
Tutors United is an award-winning charity who work with housing associations to deliver community-based tutoring programmes to primary school children from low-income, migrant and refugee backgrounds.
We support Tutors United through our Love Where You Live (LWYL) fund and they hold two weekly maths and English tuition hubs from the Virginia Quays Community Centre.
The project targets low-income households with children in years 4, 5 and 6 who are underachieving and set to enter secondary school with scores below the national average. The children were given 120 hours of vital academic support for more than 30 weeks. The project meets the Love Where You Live fund’s objectives around early intervention and creating financial resilience for our residents.
Pupils have not only made amazing progress in maths and English, but also developed their confidence, independence and resilience in learning, with many Year 6 pupils leaving the programme ready to transition to secondary school at or above national averages.
The parents of two students, Prince and Rifkind, were delighted with the progress they have seen: “I would like to say a big thank you to NHG simply because there has been improvement in my sons’ studies.”
The tutors are university students predominantly from low-income, diverse, multilingual backgrounds themselves, and the programme helps boost their employment prospects by providing training and work experience. They use different methods to approach problems and identify gaps in the children’s knowledge, so they can confidently ask for help.
While the children are the focus of the project, Tutors United also involve parents/carers by inviting them to termly progress evenings, which provide information and resources, in turn helping their own literacy, numeracy skills and confidence.
The mother of two students in the programme, Amina and Bai-Maro, said: “I find the information useful, especially around the SATs area.”
Our tenancy sustainment and safeguarding adviser, Joy Boachie, went along to a parents’ assessment session in February to speak to them about the support we have available for residents, such as debt advice, helping with accessing benefits and paying for essentials.
Tutors united has applied for LWYL funding for the next academic year to continue the work with the children and families – we're hoping they're successful so we can work with them and help more families in 2025/26.
You can find the full end of year report programme below.
