NEWS

Westminster Tutors students are welcome to join the annual David Game College student party on Saturday 7th May, at the WildSide Roof Space at The DoubleTree Hilton (Tower of London). Tickets are a heavily subsidised £40 and include food and non-alcoholic...

French A Level students are invited to attend a film screening at the Ciné Lumière at the Institut Français on Thursday 24th March. The film is a comedy called La famille Bélier about music and social class in France. It is part of the Set French Days...

As the summer A level exams loom ever closer, it is important to consider how you are preparing and revising for success. There are only a few weeks left of the spring term, and then you will have up to three weeks off over the Easter holidays. This is the...

On Monday 28th February there will be a college theatre trip to Small Island at the National Theatre: https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/shows/small-island The play starts at 7.30pm and should finish between 9.30 and 10pm (the running times have yet to be...

This week the exam boards have published their advance information for the exams this summer, and this can be found at the links below: AQA Edexcel OCR Our initial impression is that there is not much reduction in content, but the aim is to guide students to...

For our PSHCE sessions this half term, our students have been working on preparing debates. This has helped them to get used to speaking in public, working as a team to research a topic, and building clear and persuasive arguments. Three debates took place...

It’s always nice to pass on good news, and we are really pleased to say that two of our students were successful in their applications to Cambridge. A huge amount of that is down to the support of Virginia and our teachers - well done on your fantastic...

Our teachers have many talents, and several of them are published authors! David Swift has taught History and Politics at Westminster Tutors for several years, alongside researching and teaching at a number of universities in the UK and abroad. He...

As part of the David Game College Group, Westminster Tutors students can enjoy the varied clubs and activities offered at David Game College, at no extra charge. David Game College is a 30 minute journey from Westminster Tutors, right by Aldgate tube station...

Following the cancellation of summer exams in 2020 and 2021, the government plans for A level and GCSE students to take exams as normal in summer 2022. The exam timetables for the summer have now been published, and they can be found on the individual exam...

Well done to all of our students and staff for working so hard this term. Last week, we held mock exams, and it was clear just how serious and focussed our students were. For this final week of term, we have had a number of festive events to help the...

Will Bynoe is starting a reading group that is open to all students. The plan is to read a short, interesting article before each meeting and then meet to discuss it. We hope it will be an opportunity for students to get to know each other in a friendly,...

The Art Department will be taking students to the V&A Museum next Monday morning. Students will meet at the college, walk to the museum, which is only a few minutes away, and then walk back. This is a great opportunity for students to see a fantastic...

Every year, we ask our students and parents to give us feedback about their experiences with Westminster Tutors. We are very pleased to be able to share below some of the wonderful comments we were left this year. “From the very first contact with...

It might feel like the summer has barely begun, and for us teachers it has certainly crept up on us, but results days are here! Tomorrow at 8.30am A level results will be published, with GCSEs on Thursday at the same time. This article is a short summary of...

A few years ago The Good Schools Guide visited Westminster Tutors and wrote a glowing review of our college. We are proud to be featured in the seventh edition of The Good Schools Guide London North, which arrives this month. You can read our review on The...

Due to the Teacher Assessed Grades process replacing exams this year, the summer term will essentially be an assessment period for all students taking A levels and GCSEs. There are six weeks for the assessment process, with the option of an extension week...

The government announced yesterday evening that all schools will reopen from Monday 8th March. Therefore in person lessons will begin again that week. There will be an amended set of Covid protocols for the reopening - including the use of testing and face...

Last night, the Government announced that all secondary schools and colleges in England will be closed for six weeks until half term, the week beginning 15 February. Therefore, all lessons will continue remotely until then. At that point there will be a...

We hope everyone is looking forward to a well-deserved festive break, as we come to the end of term. The college will still be open next week if students wish to come in to work, and then we will be closed for Christmas from 18 December. We look forward to...

Well done to our students on completing their mock exams last week and for all their hard work this term! This week we have a couple of social activities arranged for students before we break up for Christmas. On Thursday at 4:30pm, students can meet in the...

The government announced this week new measures that will be taken to support students sitting exams in the summer. In addition to the summer exam series being moved back by three weeks, the following changes will take place: more generous grading will be...

Well done to all our students and staff for making it through the first-half term of what continues to be a strange and challenging year! We have had some interesting discussions during our PSHCE sessions, which have so far looked at stress, anxiety and the...

The government has announced today that the summer 2021 exam series will run from 7 June to 2 July. This will apply to all A level and GCSEs, with the exception of one Maths and one English GCSE exam, which will be taken just before the May half-term. A...

This year, rather than doing communal sports sessions, we are going to have two online sessions a week, conducted by our sports supervisor Helen Wicks. Helen is a qualified gymnastics instructor (as well as having a DPhil from Imperial), and she will be...

In addition to our expert one-to-one academic tuition, Westminster Tutors holds weekly PSHCE (Personal, Social, Health and Citizenship Education) sessions on a wide range of topics for all our students.

After six months of school closures, we are happy to be open again for all our staff and students, who are starting the academic year today!

It can often be quite daunting to search for a new school or college. I this article we have compiled questions which students and parents tend to ask us most frequently

Congratulations to our GCSE students who received excellent results today! Well done on your hard work throughout this year, and all the best for your future studies.

Results day has certainly been unique this year, and despite the strange circumstances, students at Westminster Tutors have achieved some excellent A level results.