Laura McEvilly Tutoring

04/11/2026

📚 **Year 6 SATs Reading & Maths Groups** ✏️

SATs can be challenging, and now is a great time to start building the skills and confidence children need to tackle them.

My small online groups combine **focused skills practice with exam questions**, helping children deepen their understanding, develop strategies and feel more confident in class too.

🌟 **No more than 4 children per group**, so everyone has time to contribute and receive individual support.
🌟 Opportunities to learn from each other, share ideas and explore different ways of answering questions.
🌟 A friendly, encouraging environment where children can enjoy working together and build bonds.
🌟 Skills that support children beyond SATs, helping them feel more prepared for Year 7.

I often find pupils really engage with learning alongside others—having someone to share ideas and successes with can make such a difference!

**£25 per child, per hour | Limited spaces available**

📩 Please message me to find out more or reserve a space.

**Laura McEvilly Tutoring**

04/11/2026

I used Chat GPT to create this for one of my lessons.

I think it's brilliant and I use it all the time - but you do have to be careful as it does and will make mistakes.

This is just one activity that students can do to learn new vocabulary.

This particular exercise is for my student in Year 8 who is working on his writing. I really enjoy our sessions and I hope that this will help with engagement too.

16/10/2026

It took me 10 months to read this book, but a certain little someone keeps me very busy! 😂❤️

Finishing it made me think about the children I tutor and how much I hope they all experience that wonderful feeling of getting completely lost in a book, being whisked away from reality and becoming immersed in another world.

For me, reading is a type of freedom. It’s something that’s just for me to enjoy. Something to look forward to and a passion that never dies. ❤️

If there’s one thing I’d encourage parents to do, it’s to help their children develop a love for reading. Help them discover stories and characters they fall in love with, books they can’t put down and worlds they can’t wait to return to.

I’m onto the next book in the series now, and apparently there will eventually be eight books in total! At this rate, I might be reading them for a very long time! 😂

Anyone else reading this series? Or perhaps you or your children are currently hooked on another book or series? I’d love to hear what everyone’s reading! 😁📚

05/10/2026

Today I am going to be working through vocabulary tasks like this one with my year 6 student.
Learning vocabulary shouldn't just be memorising definitions.
The student needs to be able to know how to use each word in different contexts. Choosing the best word for a sentence is helpful as it models how those words should be used.
Other activities include: matching words to definitions, identifying synonyms and antonyms, doing a 'does it make sense' activity as well as asking the pupil to finish sentences using those words.

23/09/2026

How would you solve this?

18/09/2026

This is brilliant. 🤩 👏

Because biscuits can be brilliant for working on requesting, making choices, turn taking, following instructions, vocabulary and sentence building.

We can model words such as more, open, eat, break, big, little, again, finished all without expecting a child to copy or repeat us.

And with older children, the very same activity can be used in completely different ways: describing, giving opinions, explaining preferences, problem solving, conversation skills, self-awareness, self-confidence and self-esteem.

That’s one of the lovely things about speech and language therapy..... an everyday object can be adapted to meet a child or young person exactly where they are, from their very first communication skills right through to understanding themselves and expressing who they are. 💚

25/08/2026

This is part of a non-verbal reasoning 11+ exam.

What would your method be to find out the answer?

Do you visualise it in your head?

What's the answer?

Please add your comments. :)

23/08/2026

Do you know the answer?

What’s the most efficient method?

Often maths is quite simple in that there’s only one correct answer. (But not always!)

However, there’s normally more than one way to find that answer.

So what’s your method?

Solve in seconds! ✍️

23/08/2026

Find the Shaded Triangle Area ???

22/08/2026

⭐Places are already being reserved for September – limited spaces available. ⭐
Is your child starting Year 6 this September?

Help them start the new school year feeling confident and prepared with my Year 6 SATs Reading Success Club, starting in September.
Can your child read fluently but sometimes struggle to read between the lines? 🕵️

Many children understand what they've read but find it harder to make inferences, explain their thinking and justify their answers — all important skills in the Year 6 Reading SATs.

Rather than simply working through practice papers, these weekly online sessions explicitly teach the reading skills and strategies children need to tackle SATs-style questions successfully.

We'll work on:
• Vocabulary
• Retrieval
• Inference
• Prediction
• Explanation
• Summarising & sequencing
• SATs question techniques
▫️Qualified primary teacher
▫️7+ years' classroom teaching experience
▫️3 years' full-time tutoring experience
▫️Maximum 4 pupils
▫️Weekly online sessions
▫️£25 per session
▫️Starting September.

Starting at the beginning of Year 6 gives children plenty of time to strengthen their reading skills, build confidence and become familiar with SATs-style questions without the pressure of last-minute revision.
Send me a message if you'd like more information or to reserve a space for September.