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Carol Milne, a former science teacher and head of year who left the classroom in 2015, is expanding her tutoring network with a new Kip McGrath centre at Washington Library.
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00:00Carol Milne, a former science teacher and head of year who left the classroom in 2015,
00:05is expanding her tutoring network with a new Kit McGrath Centre here at Washington Library.
00:10Milne opened her first centre in Gateshead East in March 2016, launched a second in Chesterly Street
00:16in 2021 and says the latest hub is aimed at making high quality tuition more accessible for local families.
00:23So I started off and it was just me and I leased a building in Gateshead on Region Terrace,
00:31which is quite a well-known terrace for things like dentists and solicitors, so it was quite
00:36a professional setting so I was quite pleased with that and I did everything, the teaching,
00:43the marketing, sweeping of the floors, cleaning of the toilets and very quickly it did start to grow
00:51and therefore I started to first of all take on secondary specialist teachers and through the
00:57years which will be 10 years in March since I actually opened the centre we now have a staff of 30
01:05which are an amazing amazing team right the children are so lucky to have such amazing teachers
01:13and admin staff who are just so supportive. Kit McGrath which marks its 50th anniversary next year
01:19and operates more than 800 centres worldwide provides a long established tuition model.
01:25Milne's three centres have delivered over 91,000 lessons and has supported close to 3,000 students
01:31offering weekly sessions for dozens of families and creating local jobs in the process.
01:37Personally it's important to me because I didn't get that opportunity as a child I wasn't brought up in a
01:42family that valued education, I wanted to be a teacher from four years old and I didn't really get the
01:49opportunity so I went back in my mid-30s to get my education in my degree and then my postgraduate
01:58in teaching. I just want children to have that opportunity, to me education gives you choices in life
02:05so I think tutoring has become a bit more of the norm a little bit like going out for tea in a restaurant
02:11or a cafe is is more of the norm. I do think since lockdown there's been a huge impact on children's
02:21mental health and you know I obviously did five years before lockdown and coming up to five years
02:27post lockdown and there is a huge change in students who really are anxious, lacking confidence. I had a
02:36student last night that came for an assessment, they were where they should be and I obviously told the
02:42father that and he said I know but she's lacking confidence, she doesn't believe in herself so they're
02:47coming even though she is where she should be to get that confidence and that's the thing parents and
02:54young people tell us the most. It made such a difference to the confidence.
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