The most reliable method would be to ask from your child on a regular basis about how they do in their key subjects at school. School tests, reports and parents evenings are great opportunities to get a better understanding. As a rule of thumb, if your child is working on or below his/her target, I believe they can benefit from tutoring to improve.

If your child is already above his/her target at school tests and finds it convenient to keep up with everything, then probably they do not need tutoring.

here is one exception to this when the child’s target at school is very low. For example, some students who come to the UK in year 5 or 6 are generally allocated low targets at schools mainly due to their language difficulties. But, when they overcome that barrier in a few years time, they need higher targets if they are to obtain great results in GCSEs.

You can contact us using our email or phone number with basic information about your child (year, subject/s they need help on etc.). we will then send his/her initial assessment by email. you can get your child to complete this with no external help and send us the completed test by email.

We will mark the assessment carefully and identify strengths and any gaps in understanding. We might need a day or two for this and we will then invite your child for a taster session. We will show you and your child the outcome of the initial assessment and the child can gain first hand experience about our method of tutoring. Then you can discuss with your child how you and your child like the system and then you can start professional tutoring with us if you want to continue.

Yes and no. Let us explain this in detail. We analyse the initial assessment carefully and develop an INDIVIDUAL STUDY PROGRAM for EACH CHILD. This is very effective compared to mass teaching as we address exact requirements for each child. We provide one-to-one tutoring in a small group setting (up to a maximum of 5 children per group) and this means rapid improvement and we track their progress to show you.

In group tutoring 5-6 children are taught the same content by one teacher. This is similar to school teaching with the exception of smaller class size. This is not very effective simply because the teacher is not teaching according to each child’s needs. An average student is the target and your child could be losing out as he could be smarter than the rest of the class or a little slower and lagging behind. In both cases, they need special attention where he/she can progress at their own pace.

This is what we specialise and we provide all the support they need to achieve this. For example we have some students in year 8 who are doing GCSE Maths papers and obtaining over 95 %. (In 2018 only 4.5 % of all year 11 students obtained this level- some of our students are achieving this 3 years earlier).

On the other hand we have some students in year 10 who have just join tutoring and they are struggling with some key concepts that they missed in year 8 and 9. Our approach allows us to go back and correct this and these students can catch up everything before they go to year 11 and we always complete the specification ahead of school unless the child joins us late.

No. We do not offer this and all our tutoring is done online. We are able to provide a very good service this way with the help of a well equipped office with all resources and it is more effective. Moreover, children benefit working in small effective groups where they don’t have the pressure of someone correcting their every single mistake before they have time to correct it themselves. Many children find a little uneasy to answer a question when a teacher is staring at their work over their shoulder and they are more comfortable when they are allowed to do it themselves after sufficient guidance and then correct if they make a mistake.

Parents are given feedback regularly and can check their children’s work anytime as we keep a record of their work in every session. Each student has a folder and we keep records of what they do in each lesson, marks they obtain in assessments, any topics they need to work on etc. This is a complete profile to get an in depth understanding about how the child work on the subject and the parent can see this anytime. The child uses this in every lesson so they can see the progression for themselves. Please see the photo galley for some pictures of folders from past students.

Accordion Content

Each session is 1 hour and 30 minutes.

This depends on the age of the student when they join us. If a student joins us in year 9 or before, we teach them the specification by the end of year 10 and use the whole of year 11 for revision and exam practice. This is a very good approach as they have a year for revision and this makes them more confident. Moreover, what they learn in year 11 at school then becomes revision for them and they tend to do a lot better in school exams as well as in their real GCSEs. If the student joins us in year 10 or 11 we then use a different approach where we practice past papers while teaching them any gaps in their understanding. In both cases we complete all available past papers for the relevant exam board. We keep a record of this and parents and students can see how they progress over time.

No. We provide all resources required except for stationary.

The following are provided to all students at NO COST to parents.

1. ALL AVAILABLE PAST PAPERS FOR THE RELEVANT EXAM BOARD (E.g. Our GCSE students last year were provided with 44 past papers for Maths )
2. REVISION GUIDES FOR ALL THREE SCIENCE SUBJECTS
3. WORKBOOKS FOR SCIENCE
4. EXAM PRACTICE BOOKS FOR SCIENCE
5. SPECIMEN PAPERS FOR MATHS AND SCIENCE

KS3 and GCSE sessions : We charge £30 per each 1.5 hour session (£20 per hour) payable one month in advance.
A Levels: We charge £60 per each 1.5 hr session (£40 per hour) as A level sessions are done as 1-1 lessons.

Invoices are provided to the parent at the beginning of each month and parents can pay by bank transfer to the company account. Please use the name of the child as reference. If a student is unable to attend a session for any valid reason, we are happy to arrange a catch -up lesson or we can deduct that amount from the next invoice. We kindly request to inform in advance in case of absence.