Confidence first. The grades follow.
Weekly one-to-one sessions in English and Maths, built around the exam your child is actually sitting — and the gaps nobody has had time to close.
45 minutes, no charge, and an honest answer about whether I can help.
For the student who is working hard and still stuck.
Most of the students I take on are not lazy and not struggling with the whole subject. They have two or three specific gaps, and a way of answering questions that quietly loses marks. Both are fixable, and neither gets fixed in a class of thirty.
Three things every session does.
Start from the real gap
The first session is diagnostic. We find the two or three things actually costing marks, rather than re-teaching a year of syllabus nobody has time for.
Practise the paper, not the topic
Knowing the content and answering the question are different skills. We work on past papers, in exam conditions, with the mark scheme open.
Show the progress
You get a short written note after every session — what we covered, what improved, and what to practise before the next one.
finished a grade or more above their prediction
every session, never a group
students on the books at any one time
years teaching the current syllabus
From a predicted 5 to a 7 in English Literature.
The problem. Strong ideas, no structure. Every essay opened with a retelling of the plot and ran out of time before the second poem.
What we did. Six weeks on one thing: a paragraph shape that starts with the argument. Then eight past papers, timed, marked against the real scheme.
She stopped telling me the story and started telling me what she thought. That was the whole difference.
Parent of a Year 11 student, summer 2026
He went in expecting to fail it. He came out saying it was fine. I have never heard him say that about a maths exam.
Parent of a Year 13 student
I am Nadia. I will be the one teaching your child.
I taught English in secondary schools for nine years before going independent, and I still mark for two exam boards — which is the reason I can tell you exactly where a mark is being dropped rather than guessing at it.
I keep the practice small on purpose. Twelve students means I know what every one of them is working on, and there is no one else for a session to be handed to.
Start with a free assessment.
Forty-five minutes, online or in person. You will get an honest read on where your child actually is, and no pressure to book anything.