GCSE - KS4
Years 10 and 11
If your child is due to take their GCSEs and they have not attained their target grade to date in theory, practice papers, or their School reports, then this needs immediate action.
The GCSEs are taking place across May & June 2025, they will come around very quickly, you'll blink and it will be too late.
Trust me it's the same every year: My students think they have all the time in the world, then it's May! And they wish they had started revising in the previous September, as advised.
I have successfully tutored students in all 3 GCSE Sciences for varying exam boards: OCR, AQA, Edexcel, IGCSE.
I have successfully tutored students for GCSE Math for the AQA, Edexcel and IGCSE exam boards, happily all my tutees have passed their GCSEs to date.
Who am I?
Highly qualified and successful.
I needed to change my career to be one that benefited me and my children too, so after 15 years of teaching successfully in schools, I moved into full time tutoring and examining.
I enjoy tutoring students who want to learn and there were less and less of these in schools, due to the behaviour of others and the lack of support from school leaders.
The tutoring experience from me is much more personalised and rewarding for my students. Unlike the larger tutoring companies where they are rigid and inflexible - teaching only to lesson plans that an office has compiled. I tutor my students individually.
I only tutor subjects that I am qualified in, or have years of experience in either tutoring it, or examining it.
I provide all the resources. I provide instant feedback with built in exam technique. I use my marking to feedback into what they need to learn next to progress. I provide revision cards for all 3 sciences.
You can see the smile of understanding grow across the tutees faces, as their grades continually improve and they become more and more confident in themselves and their new knowledge gained.
Why isn't school enough?
Your child's behaviour is your responsbility as a parent not their teachers.
Many teachers are leaving the profession, despite financial incentives, due to:
- The rising number of violent incidents in school against teachers.
- Teachers are not supported sufficiently by Headteachers or the Government.
- SEND Staff are being made redundant when there are not enough TA's, LSA's and HTLA's in schools as it is.
- Covid and the pressures on their ‘mental health’.
- Teachers are not supported by parents.
- Students and parents are abusive to teachers.
- Student’s behaviour.
- Teachers that are not qualified to teach the subjects that they are expected to teach.
As a result of this less experienced teachers are brought in from overseas as they are cheaper, they have to remain for 1-3 years and need to teach to pass their NQT and gain teacher status. This sadly results in poor behaviour of students and low teaching ability in classrooms, as a result of the poor behaviour.
Students must have discipline.
It is your child's legal right to learn but it is also a teacher's legal right to teach and every single child that misbehaves is preventing both from happening.
It is therefore every student and parents responsibility to report poor behaviour and make school leaders act on it.
Individually important
Differentiated learning
I firmly believe that all children should be entitled to a good education and that currently isn't happening in schools.
Children of all ages and all stages in their education were affected by Covid, this needs to supported by work at home. It will not be rectified by the education providers.
This is compounded by an increase in use of supply teachers, inexperienced teachers, unqualified teachers, or no teachers.
I tutor and treat every student as I would want my own son's to be taught. Very few schools respect this amount of dedication, so I would much rather be where I am and appreciated.
I currently have 100% success rate with all my GCSE, KS3 & KS2 tutees passing their exams with grades 9 - 4. [A*-C].
I currently have 97% pass rate at the 11+. The only students I have had, where they did not pass, was solely due to their own lack of commitment, or parental excuses, for not doing their homework, not learning their revision cards provided, not completing work set etc. It has to be a two way street.
You must be fully committed to your tutoring and complete all the work set to a high level.
The consistency of doing this every week then results in a higher level of learning and understanding, that then translates into your exam answers - resulting in success.
EXAMS
REVISION, REVISION, REVISION!
Please ensure you know which exam board your child is studying.
I am an experience examiner for several of the exam boards: This gives me detailed knowledge and understanding of what students need to write and how they need to phrase their answers in order to ensure that they pass with as many marks as they can.
Your child will be taught the whole scheme of work for their exam board. They will be provided with excellent notes in order to learn and revise from.
They will be given or shown how to write exam cards, in order to make revision quicker and more accurate.
Your child will be shown how to answer exam questions accurately and with key words, so that they can answer any question on the key concepts that may arise.
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