Our Beyond Method puts the student’s needs at the centre of teaching. It gives tutors a clear way to decide what to teach, how much help to give and when to change approach.
The Beyond Method: teaching that responds to your child
A completed worksheet is only part of the picture. We want your child to understand, explain and apply what they have learned with increasing independence.
- Define: Agree what matters most for your child: confidence, understanding, gaps, exam preparation or independence.
- Diagnose: Use questions, prior work and short tasks to identify strengths, gaps and misconceptions.
- Prioritise: Choose the gaps that will make the biggest difference, rather than trying to fix everything at once.
- Prompt: Use questions and clues to draw out your child’s thinking, with enough support to help them start.
- Check: Ask your child to explain and apply the learning independently, then revisit it later or in a different question.
- Change: Adapt the pace, task, explanation, level of support or next focus in response to what your child can do.
This is a continuous loop: tutors revisit the student’s needs and change the teaching response as learning develops.
What this looks like in a lesson
If your child struggles with fractions, the first step is to find the blocker. It might be multiplication facts, equivalent fractions, vocabulary or choosing a method. A tutor can then focus the practice and check whether your child can answer without a prompt.
In English, a student may understand a story but struggle to explain an interpretation. Questions can help them choose evidence and develop their own explanation before writing independently.
A purposeful lesson, with room to adapt
Lessons may include a welcome and learning focus, recall of earlier work, a modelled example, prompted attempts, guided practice, an independent check and a next step. Tutors adjust the balance to the needs of the class. This lesson structure supports the Beyond Method; the method itself is the six-step teaching loop above.
Useful feedback for parents
Our aim is to help you understand what your child has covered, what is going well, one area to focus on and a practical next step. Progress includes confidence and independence as well as accuracy and attainment.
Think Beyond. Act Beyond. Be Beyond.
Our mission is to deliver joyous, personalised education that nurtures confident, independent learners who uplift their communities.
That means noticing the whole child, responding to their needs and helping them become more curious, capable and independent. Explore our mission, vision and values and Beyond Method.
Find support for your child
Explore our KS3 programme for Years 7–9 or ask about suitable classes at Seven Kings, Ilford or Loughton.