I’ve been working here at Beanbag for 6 weeks now, and thought it about time I add to the blogs and tell you a little bit about me and my experiences with tutors.
Private tutors have been a massive influence on my life. From the age of ten I’ve had singing lessons pretty much once a week. These lessons helped me realise my dream to be a musical theatre performer, and helped me to achieve a standard in singing which has made it possible for me to do that. It’s so important for a singer to have a secure technique, as it will enable consistency and stamina within the voice, and encourages vocal health. In my experiences and through teaching singing myself, I feel it important for children to begin learning a technique at a young age, thus preventing bad habits in singing, which could otherwise, lead to vocal disorders such as nodules.
Singing lessons haven’t been my only experience of private tutors. When I was taking my GCSE’s, I was lucky (not that I thought so at the time) to have both Math and French tuition, both of which I got below a C grade in my mock exams. My Mum took it upon herself to get me some extra help; one years worth of Maths tutoring brought me up from an E to a B grade, and with the extra French lessons I managed to achieve a C grade. Without this extra tuition, I’m certain I wouldn’t have achieved the grades I needed to get into sixth form. The private tutoring gave me the extra time and space away from the classroom to ask the questions I couldn’t ask in class, and as much time as I needed to grasp the areas of the subjects I struggled with.
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