Bright Starters

**Date:** Apr 15, 2009

To get you started on the forum

**Date:** Oct 15, 2009

Your name: Eve Wilson

What area you are a tutor for: Overall Director and Author of the Programme

What made you become a Bright Starter tutor: I was so concerned when my grandchildren started school and failed to learn to read. I know how easy it is to guide a child with reading and I couldn't believe all the nonsense I read about it being 'rocket science'. Matters came to a head when Honor started dreading school because she said 'I can't read' and she was totally confused by the synthetic phonics system they were teaching her. So I wrote a reading scheme based on all the knowledge I had picked up over 30years of teaching. It worked dramatically with Honor so other parents asked for copies. Soon we started selling it as a Bright Start toolkit but I wanted to help more children and realised I needed to recruit helpers. A franchise seemed the best way to achieve this aim.

The best bits of running your own business: Freedom to make my own decisions and my own choices together with our very small management team at Head Office

The best piece of advice you were every given and who from: Not sure about this: I am given good advice every single day! I think the key thing is to listen to different ideas, then give yourself time to mull them over before making a decision. Most things can be changed at a later date if they're not right in the first place. If the main idea's sound, the rest is just 'tweaking'.