In an English session based on Creative Writing, one of the best techniques I found to improve the student’s standard of work was Group Peer Review. I’d tried Peer Review before, but I wanted to make the process of review more transparent and productive.
Read MoreI think I speak for the entire 2019 / 2020 Yipiyap tutor cohort when I say that everyone was looking forward to the two Induction Days, mainly to put our worries aside. For most of us, this was our first professional job and so a really informative Induction was essential to help us prepare for the role of a Tutor - Yipiyap did just that!
Read MoreI was working as a member of the SEND department in my placement so the need to differentiate was near constant as I worked with several students with varying and complex needs.
Read MoreQuestioning Techniques with one student I've been working with since the very start of the year has made a really big impact and helped improve her Maths skills no end.
Read MoreThe Royal Norfolk Show is one of the biggest events in the Norfolk calendar with people flocking from across Norfolk and the surrounding counties either for a day out in the sun or to compete.
Read MoreI had a student ask me this during a small group session with some of their class’ lowest ability students. With their exams only a couple of months away, I was trying desperately to engage these kids in what they were learning - cracking some jokes with them, allowing them the freedom to dictate the direction of their creative response, all in an effort to help them engage with the complex nature of the tasks.
Read MoreThe past two months have had me thinking of Anatoli Burgoski; the unfortunate Soviet scientist who stuck his head into a live particle accelerator and swiftly received a right hook from a proton. One minute you’re fiddling with a wire and the next you’ve got a tunnel seared through your skull.
Read MoreI thoroughly enjoyed working for Yipiyap in my gap year. So much so that I'd been dead set on coming back ever since I left to start my Sociology degree at the University of Manchester. Well, three years later, here I am again.
Read MoreDuring the summer of 2018, I took part in a month long World Challenge expedition to Laos and Vietnam. It was the most amazing month and such a fantastic experience that I will never forget.
Read MoreI worked at Yipiyap back in 2012 during my gap year. When Anne contacted me about the job, I thought it would be a fantastic opportunity to do something constructive, rewarding and challenging in my year off.
Read MoreAs a new member of the yipiyap in-school tutor program, I would highly recommend to anyone, considering taking a gap year, to become an in-school tutor for this incredible company.
Read MoreMy time at Yipiyap has been really amazing, and has been a real eye-opener for me. Having come straight out of a grammar school where everyone is in their own little bubble, I have learnt that education does not come easily to everyone.
Read MoreConservation of our closest biological relatives is an issue I find extremely important. The Bornean Orangutan is critically endangered, but due to the lack of funding from the governments of Borneo, they have only recently reached this conservation status, despite being close to extinction in the wild for over a decade.
Read MoreI have been fortunate enough to be able to experience the full range of support that Yipiyap offer to schools. This has not only been a great opportunity for myself, but also for my personal development. Though primarily focused on group sessions and in-class support, I was also part of an alternative provision by catering to a student waiting for a school placement.
Read More‘So what is your plan for next year?’ It’s quite obviously the question on everyone's lips in the last year of sixth form. My plan was always to have a gap year, but I think like most people, I was honestly spoiled for choice over what I would do for the year- caught between the temptation of laying on a beach for a year… getting some work experience… finding an internship?
Read MoreThanks to the extensive connections of yipiyap, I had the opportunity to go and work with Ernst and Young over the spring half term to get some experience in the world of accounting.
Read MoreHi, my name is Claire and I am currently a tutor at yipiyap. As I only started as a tutor at the beginning of March, my gap year so far has involved a mixture of different things and I would like to share with you what I have been doing.
Read MoreOriginally I was meant to be based in a school 5 days a week however when the school had to change their plans at short notice, Anne put forward the suggestion of me working with a looked after child 1 to 1 in the home. There was no pressure from Anne and at first I was very sceptical about the placement but from the first day I could tell it would be successful.
Read MoreOn the 23rd November, three of the Yipiyap tutors who are applying for Medicine, including myself, went to visit the Manchester Cancer Research Centre, which has links to the Christie hospital, for talks and a tour.
Read MoreI have recently taken part in an Army selection event to join The Band of the Duke of Lancaster’s regiment: an intensive three-day residential course, designed to rigorously access your overall capabilities and potential for a career in the Army.
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