Skills for Learning.
Skills for Life.
At Take 2 Learning, we work with children to build the skills, habits and self-knowledge that make learning work – not just for the next exam, but for everything that comes after it. We prioritise the learner behind the learning. We believe every child who works with us should leave better equipped for the future, not just the next test.
Most support focuses on what children are learning.
We focus on how.
Because a child who understands how they learn doesn’t just do better at school. They think more clearly, adapt more confidently, and keep learning long after the test is over.
When learning deserves another approach, it’s time for Take 2.
Take 2 Teachers
Take 2 Learning is Sara Wilson and Catherine White. Between us we have nearly four decades of teaching and school leadership behind us, across both the state and independent preparatory sectors.
We set up Take 2 Learning because we kept seeing the same thing: children who needed something more personalised, more flexible and more carefully thought through than even the best school could offer within its walls. So we stopped trying to make the system fit the child – and built something that fits the child instead.
Sara Wilson
“Strong learning comes from strong learners”
Sara has been teaching for almost twenty years across the full primary age range. She’s a former Assistant Head and Academic Lead, an 11+ English specialist, a qualified ISI inspector and someone who spent her pre-teaching life in educational research. This means she approaches everything with both the practical experience of a classroom teacher and the analytical rigour of someone who studies what actually works.
Sara’s particular interest is in the learner behind the learning – understanding how a child thinks, organises themselves and approaches challenge, and then using that to make everything click.
Catherine White
“Learning is most powerful when it is purposeful and connected to the real world.”
Catherine has been teaching for over fifteen years. She’s a former Head of Upper Prep, an 11+ Maths specialist, a humanities lead and someone who taught across every primary age group before stepping into senior leadership. Before teaching, she worked in marketing, which gives her a rather useful eye for how to communicate complex ideas clearly and memorably.
Catherine’s passion is contextual learning: helping children engage with ideas in the real world, so that the learning sticks because it means something.
“It is incredible what a difference a few ideas have made to Jenna. After the sessions, the tip sheets become a bible and then the strategies stick. I’ve been told by her teachers how much she is using them in class to help her start, focus and reflect on how she is doing.”
Daisy
“The learning skills report Sara produced was incredibly detailed and taught us, as parents, so much about our son and how he approaches his learning. We always knew that getting started on a task was tough for him but now we have the habits to really support him, rather than getting constantly frustrated. It was amazing how much Take 2 Learning was able to discover about our son in such a short time. Most importantly, our son now has the words to explain when his learning feels tricky and we have the words to support him. Life changing.”
Rachael