The Vision Behind Our Tutoring Franchise

February 2012, I clicked send and submitted my first ever profile as a tutor.

My goal: to earn enough money to provide the kids and I with a summer holiday each year. Just because I now found myself as single, it didn’t mean that they should miss out.

As I write my profile, I explain that I had completed a degree through the Open University in education and that my experience had started with working in early years, I had also worked in a reception class in a mainstream school, and a year 4-5 class. I had worked in a base for children with autism that couldn’t cope in mainstream schools. I had worked as an NVQ assessor, and I had recently closed my childminding business.

I wrote about what I had learned and that I had an interest in different learning styles and difficulties including dyslexia.

Now I had to wait and see what happened, but the fewer the people that knew that I had written the profile the better. The fewer people there would be to judge when I failed.

Having said that a friend and I sat down and brainstormed what we would expect from a tutor for our own children:

Someone who would travel to us

A person who would explain things in a way that they understood it

The lessons needed to be relevant.

This became the founding blocks of the business.

In addition, I believed from what I had learned, that if we just gave a child one resource, they would create one memory. If we gave them another similar resource, they would make that memory stronger, but their brain would still only have one place to go to where it could find that particular piece of information. So, we needed to use multiple resources to help to create multiple resources. In addition, the lessons needed to fun so that we could help the child to relax and retain the information that we were giving them, instead of them sitting them in fear of admitting they didn’t understand what we were saying.

I presumed this was what everyone did, but evidently, I was wrong.

What we were doing was very different to how most tutors worked. I hand on heart believe that what we are doing is better.

Since 2012 the business has grown a lot. But I also know that no one will ever have the same emotional attachment to business as the owner will.

I want to provide this creative, personalised, fun-based support to many more children around the country, but I am just one person. I can’t do this by myself. I need help.

My mission is to find others who want to grow a tutoring business with the best interests of the children at the heart of it.

With the belief that we all learn differently and that if we are relaxed, we are more susceptible to learning.

Others who recognise that we are all individuals and can not be taught in the same way so that we can support more children using these key principles.

This is why we have kept the costs to a minimum, so that as many people as possible can access the potential to become a franchisee.

I know our way of doing things isn’t for everyone. It’s not the easiest method to support learning, but I hand on heart believe it is up there with the best.

If this has piqued your interest and you would like to learn more about the Clara James Tutoring Franchise, click here