voluntary extra lessons

I taught in an inner city comprehensive where many of the pupils were not particulary driven or scholarly.

Initially I offered one lesson in the middle of the pre exam holiday to my A level pupils, partly because I thought it would be good for 'morale', and partly as I thought it would nudge them into working together with each other to revise outside the session.They nearly all turned up and there was a good 'mood' to the session, and they appreciated that I had given up a bit of my spare time.

This led me to experiment with offering an 'early start' lesson to my GCSE group on the morning of the exam.

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