by Clarendon Tutors | Sep 22, 2026 | Exams & Revision, News
How many times have you read a report from your school, full of sound and fury, but signifying nothing? How wonderful that my child is ‘meeting expectations’ but what are these mysterious expectations? Are they the same for every child? Do you have a specific...
by Clarendon Tutors | Sep 15, 2026 | News, UCAS & Universities
The Spectator recently released its 2026 list for Oxbridge offers for UK schools. It makes for very interesting reading, so we’ve put down some of our key takeaways, as well as the top 80 table below. Here are some of our key takeaways: Independents...
by Clarendon Tutors | Sep 9, 2026 | News, Parenting
And breathe. The long, hot summer is over. Our dear children are back at school. The aggressively expanding screen time frontiers can be reset. The increasingly creative childcare options can be scaled back. Grandparents can breathe a sigh of relief until half term...
by Clarendon Tutors | Aug 25, 2026 | Interviews, News
When Clarendon was a schoolboy, the Eton College Chapel could sometimes be a grey and dismal place, its unusual Gothic fan vaulting accepting the bored yawns of 600 boys. However, one day of the week of which this could not be said was Fridays, when the irrepressible...
by Clarendon Tutors | Aug 21, 2026 | GCSEs, News
We’re obviously in danger of tooting our own horn, but, if we can’t shout out our brilliant students and heroic tutors during exam season, then what’s the point of this all? The summer of 2026 is set to be Clarendon’s best ever GCSE year in terms of improvements from...
by Clarendon Tutors | Aug 6, 2026 | News, UCAS & Universities
We hope this latest missive finds you seaside, poolside, or – for the really vogue post climate crisis holiday destination – on Teeside. Perhaps you’re enjoying the sunshine, or perhaps you’re finding the oppressive language of “heat domes” too much. (What...
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