{"id":13480,"date":"2020-11-16T16:42:19","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T16:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/?p=13480"},"modified":"2020-11-16T16:42:19","modified_gmt":"2020-11-16T16:42:19","slug":"first-ever-uk-network-of-young-tutors-created-to-support-gcse-resits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/first-ever-uk-network-of-young-tutors-created-to-support-gcse-resits\/","title":{"rendered":"First ever UK network of young tutors created to support GCSE resits\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-15.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-13481\" src=\"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-15-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"165\" srcset=\"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-15-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-15-1024x562.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-15-150x82.jpg 150w, https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-15-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/1-15.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>GCSE resit students are being tutored by other young people across the UK in a ground-breaking new project.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/r.xdref.com\/?id=0A2CjqcB016057&amp;from=rw@ruthwilsonpr.co.uk&amp;to=chearnden@datateam.co.uk&amp;url=https:\/\/www.activatelearning.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Activate Learning<\/a>\u00a0and peer tutoring organisation\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/r.xdref.com\/?id=0A2CjqcB016057&amp;from=rw@ruthwilsonpr.co.uk&amp;to=chearnden@datateam.co.uk&amp;url=https:\/\/yipiyap.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yipiyap<\/a>\u00a0have created a system that connects students with a tutor of their choice, close to them in age, to give them additional support and teaching in a series of online lessons.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 600 students from Activate Learning\u2019s seven colleges are taking part, with over 20 tutors from across the UK. They themselves have recently completed A Levels.<\/p>\n<p>Anne Morris of Yipiyap, says: \u201cPeer teaching has proven results as the tutors are close in age and relatable &#8211; they help bring a bit of fun to it.\u00a0We already work with schools to provide peer tutors for in-class support, but this is the first time we have created a complete network with the express purpose of helping with exam resits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anne Haig-Smith at Activate Learning, said: \u201cWe are delighted to be working on this innovative new project.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GCSE resit students are being tutored by other young people across the UK in a ground-breaking new project. Activate Learning\u00a0and peer tutoring organisation\u00a0Yipiyap\u00a0have created a system that connects students with a tutor of their choice, close to them in age, to give them additional support and teaching in a series of online lessons. Up to &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":13481,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13480","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-gcses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13480","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13480"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13480\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13482,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13480\/revisions\/13482"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13481"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/education-today.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}