Category: General
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Episode 77 – Limited spaces – apply now
The King’s Scholarship Exams are the benchmark for 13-year-olds. The logic is that the confidence in their ability and interest in their topic will open future opportunities and convince the gatekeepers that they are the right individuals to achieve their ambitions. My approach is to improve grades in the short term and to ensure they…
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Episode 76 – Four things that matters more than academic performance.
What is more important than academic excellence? King’s Scholarship defines a high level of academic achievement, along with the sports, music and art scholarships. My initial thinking was to understand the gap between the national curriculum and the questions from the King’s Scholarship papers to understand why the scholars are often from the same public…
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Episode 75 – Can we debate properly in 2025?
Debating is an important skill. Have social media and short videos made it more difficult in communication with each other in 2025? Someone assassinated someone because of a strong personal political view. If we all work on our debating skills then we can build more bridges to connect communities. Debating is an important skill to…
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Episode 74 – Confidence is the major piece of the puzzle.
Introduction Recently, I went to a training session on personal development inspired by coaches for elite Olympic athletes to reach a higher level of performance and achieve our goals. The central theme is to take control and 100% accountability. I am passionate about the BE a Scholar Tuition (BEST) project. The goal is to motivate…
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Episode 73 – Edinburgh Fringe Special Part 2 – Takeaway
Introduction Jon Hipkiss gave an insight into his journey into being a comedian in the previous episode. There are 5 traits which are really important to expand further and how these traits are covered by the portfolio building approach. What are the takeaways? The BE a Scholar Tuition portfolio approach encourages students to find a…
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Episode 72 – Edinburgh Fringe Special Part 1 – Q and A with a Comedian
Introduction Let’s give a welcome, Jon Hipkiss, a comedian. We will have a Q&A style to talk about how his journey as a comedian performer and came to the Fringe and made a success of it with daily sold out shows. Jon has kindly accepted my invitation to write about his career so far and…
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Episode 71 – Performing arts – Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Edinburgh International Fringe festival The Edinburgh Fringe Festival is a huge festival for performing arts and cultures. An aspiring performer may be able to find their place in the Fringe. The free fringe variant provides an entry level alternative for artists to practise their craft with less added pressure to sell out for the organisers…
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Episode 70 – Back to basics – Junior Maths Challenge
UK Maths Trust provides awesome resources UK Maths Trust provides awesome resources, from interesting and insightful questions which challenge kids in a particular age group and level to detailed solutions and videos to learn from. It is almost like they want kids to be great at Maths. (They certainly do) This post discusses what I…
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Episode 69 – Markov applied to Cello
What are you doing at any one moment? I am an armchair cellist. I sit on an armchair for hours while the cello teacher teaches my child. That made me think of the Markov Model, which basically looks at all the possible states and the transitions probabilities between each state. A cellist will most of…
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Episode 68 – Checkpoint in 2025.
What BE a Scholar Tuition offers is summarised in the 10 topics below. I think they are very competitive as the topics consist of what the school covers and not cover. 1. Robotics – Sequential Processing – Autonomous behaviour 2. Coding – Computer language – Generic syntax 3. AI – Markov and Bayesian – think…
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