Private Tuition

Private tuition can be tailored to help with missed topics, reinforcing or relearning the fundamentals, exam practice or just to help with motivation. Lessons provide that extra push that’s sometimes needed to excel in a topic or subject. Tutors can pull examples from outside of a text book or use real world case studies to make learning engaging and fun.

Lessons work around your timetable, with sessions during the day, after school or over the weekends. Support could last a few days for a specific assignment, to a whole year to complete a qualification.

How can private tuition help?

Approximately a quarter of secondary school students receive tuition and data suggests that three quarters of students see significant improvements after only ten hours of 1:1 lessons

Tuition helps grow creativity, curiosity and confidence

Tailored

Tutors work with students to compliment their individual learning styles

Motivating

Working with the right tutor improves motivation and helps with academic and personal growth

Enjoyable

Tuition can help uncover new passions and shift the learning experience to one of enjoyment not dread

Life Skills

Not only is academic performance improved; students learn transferable skills that they use independently

Convenient

Private tuition reduces conflict between parents and children, freeing up more time for your family

Flexible

Working around your schedule reduces stress and can meet changing needs

  • Tuition at KS3 & 4 is specialised and requires an understanding of both the course being studied and the students individual strengths and weaknesses. The aim is to reach a point at which the student has the skill sets necessary to research, understand and answer problems themselves.

  • Lesson plans aim to address gaps and stalling points in a student’s learning, using their own strengths to encourage a passion for their subject and nurture future learning. The key to successful tuition is setting realistic goals.

  • A comprehensive understanding of all exam boards at GCSE, iGCSE, A level and IB is essential. Private tuition provides bespoke tutoring, tailored to a student’s individual needs. This requires an understanding not only of a student’s ability, but also their character.

  • If the pressing issue has become improving a students exam technique, timing or understanding of questions, 1:1 tuition can help breakdown how a student approaches their exams and works under stressful exam conditions.

  • With all my students the aim is not only to ensure a pass or a specific grade but to teach them the techniques that will help them to learn, revise, write, analyse and criticise. These are especially important skills as they allow a student to excel in other areas, through university and later on in life.

  • Great tutors make lessons enjoyable and treat students as adult learners so that subjects aren’t hated or feared, and so that student reach those all important ‘ah-ha!’ moments themselves.

Case studies

  • Noah struggled with maths, being in the bottom set at school he wasn’t supported or challenged. We began with identifying gaps in his basic knowledge, with consistent work he was moved up to the top set. With this boost in confidence, Noahs work ethic improved across all subjects. We focused on his exam and interview technique in the run up to exams. He was offered a place at Westminster.

    Noah, 11+ Maths, Science and Geography

  • Zac had a good foundation in maths, our work focused on the more complex mathematical topics to help him answer level 8/9 questions. With science Zac needed more help. We made sure he understood the basic principles in chemistry and physics, before building on these to allow him to tackle more complex questions. This boosted his confidence in the sciences to such an extent that he chose to change one of his A level choices to chemistry! Zac achieved level 7s in his sciences and an 8 in his maths exams.

    Zac, GCSE Maths and Science

  • Maddie had large gaps in her knowledge from GCSE. Our primary focus was to address these gaps and improve her level of knowledge before shifting focus to exam questions. Maddie found answering questions quite hard. We worked around this by breaking down questions to make them easier to tackle. We would first identify the key words, then the topic area the questions covered and then made sure Maddie checked her answers to ensure she was hitting all the marking points and answering the question to the best of her ability. I was also able to help Maddie with her revision techniques and timetabling.

    Maddie, A level Biology and Chemistry

  • The priority for Sophia was to focus on her case studies for each topic and practice how to adapt her knowledge points to answer different questions. We also looked at how to improve her coursework and drifted into a little maths tuition too to help with the statistics involved. Making sure Sophia knew how to plan larger essay questions and structure and organise her answers helped her achieve top grades in her exams.

    Sophia, A level Geography

  • Sasha was based in the Russian school system and wished to transfer over to UCL for their Pre U Chemistry course. Tuition involved teaching Sasha the GCSE and AS chemistry and maths syllabi in the space of a year over Skype lessons. The time pressures of the examinations meant we had to ensure Sasha had a full understanding of all topics and was practiced in quickly identifying what a question required to answer it correctly. Sasha achieve an offer of a place at UCL to read their Pre U course in Chemistry.

    Sasha, Pre U prep

  • Michelle needed help with bringing up her SAT score to apply to schools such as UCLA, UCSB and Colombia. We focused on identifying what a question was asking and identifying the small differences in the answers so as to correctly identify the right one.

    Michelle, SAT Chemistry

  • Alfie was out of school for disruptive behaviour brought on by his ASD traits. Working with Alfie one to one in an interactive manner helped improve his behaviour. Using atypical teaching techniques Alfie was able to recall material orally and eventually begin to write down notes and annotate diagrams himself.

    Alfie, KS2/3

  • Ivan struggled with the worded questions in maths. After a short time working with him we were able to identify this weakness and focus on improving his understanding of key words in questions. This also helped his science work. After going through the syllabus and filling in gaps in his knowledge we were able to focus on his problem with time keeping. With practice and time keeping techniques he was able to sit his exams without the worry of running out of time. Ivan was offered places at Stowe and Charterhouse.

    Ivan, 13+ Maths & Science

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