PREP
SCHOOL
TUTOR
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Maths
Subjects
Maths, Non-verbal Reasoning
Qualifications
PGCE teacher training, BSc(Hons) Maths
Experience
St. Mary's School, Calne, St Mary's School, Cambridge, extensive private tuition
Anne has a wonderful way of making Maths learning colourful and fun, rather than frightening and onerous. She specialises in GCSE and iGCSE and has taught A-level and Further Maths for over 20 years, including preparation for the Oxford and Cambridge University exams. Many of her students went on to Russell Group universities, some going on to study Maths, especially further maths students.
She has a knack of breaking down any tricky elements and making them accessible for her students, instilling confidence where needed but ultimately aiming to stretch her students to their fullest potential.
Anne is a highly qualified mathematician who has worked with tutees preparing primarily for A-Level and GCSE exams but also for entrance examinations, including Common Entrance 11+ and 13+ to major public schools. Indeed, Anne has created and marked numerous maths entrance exam papers for 11+ and 13+.
Anne has also worked with children not necessarily focusing on exams but for whom Maths is a struggle and who need that extra input to fulfil their potential. She has a calm, reassuring manner and an understanding that mathematical principles, as well as fostering an enjoyment of mathematics, are key to success.
Anne
Subjects
Maths, Verbal Reasoning, Non-verbal Reasoning, Interview Technique
Qualifications
Qualified Teacher Status, studying towards MEd
Experience
Walhampton Prep School, Monkton Prep School & St. Andrew's, Turi (Kenya), Extensive private tuition
Richard has 16 years experience of Maths teaching in prep schools. He has prepared students for 11+, 13+ Common Entrance and scholarship exams. He also has extensive experience of testing for grammar schools. His most recent role as maths teacher and Head of Boarding gives him a versatile approach to private tuition and he is very strong in empowering and motivating his students. Parents all comment on his positive enthusiasm, unfailing energy and strong commitment.
Richard has an excellent manner and has notable successes with a wide range of pupils. He specialises in those children who have dyscalculia and may have gaps in knowledge or are just lacking in confidence.
His first teaching post was straight from university where he ventured to Kenya and taught at St. Andrew’s School, Turi. Leaving the grassy plains of sub-saharan Africa he ventured into the grassy plains of the Cotswolds. Here he taught maths from years 4 to 8, preparing pupils of all abilities to top public schools (Westonbirt, Radley and Marlborough College) and for a number of competitive grammar schools as well. Next was a move onto the city of Bath and a six year period at Monkton Prep School. As a maths specialist, he was tasked with ensuring the children were prepared for success to senior schools (Monkton, Prior Park, Canford, Marlborough, St. Mary’s Calne and King Edwards VI). His recent stint on the south coast at, Walhampton Prep, a well renowned prep school has given him a further 7 years of excellent maths teaching to years 5 through to 8. During this time, he has successfully prepared pupils for 11+, 13+ and Scholarship to some of the top boarding and day schools in the UK.
Richard is well versed with transition from prep school to senior school. He has been the central point of contact in his current school for advising on senior school choices. Richard’s strong holistic background has also led him to be an experienced and knowledgeable pastoral leader. He has extensive experience of teaching children Maths with English as a second language. He also tutors children on interview technique, verbal reasoning, revision techniques and exam preparation.
Richard is well versed in the challenges that young people face in the classroom and his knowledge, enthusiasm and dedication.
Richard
Subjects
English, Maths, Science , Verbal Reasoning, Non-verbal Reasoning, Interview Technique
Qualifications
BSc Honours (First Class), PGCE University of Cambridge
Experience
Queen’s College Preparatory School; Private tuition for 14 years
Juliet comes from a highly academic background with both parents having been professors at Oxford and Cambridge universities. She has also studied at both herself, completing her PGCE at the University of Cambridge. During this time, Juliet was awarded the British Psychological Society prize for the best undergraduate project in the country. She was also awarded a Wellcome Trust Scholarship for research and received a First Class Honours degree.
Juliet taught at Queen’s College Preparatory School in London, a highly sought after independent school for girls, and also has teaching experience at Eton College, Glendower Prep, Garden House, Summerfields, Headington, Tudor Hall and Stafford Prep. Having four young children of her own in the private system, she has also been fully involved in entrance exams as a parent. Her two eldest were awarded academic scholarships.
Juliet has extensive experience with private tuition for 14 years. She has been successful in helping children gain places to major British public schools such as: Rugby, Harrow, Downe House, Wycombe Abbey, Cheltenham Ladies’ College, St Mary’s Calne, Benenden, King’s College and more. Many of these have resulted in academic scholarships and one of her students was awarded six academic scholarships. She has had further success with 11+ entry to highly competitive grammar schools such as Newport Girls, Haberdashers’ Adams, Queen Mary’s and Bishop Vesey’s.
As another string to her bow, Juliet works with children who do not have English as their first language, preparing them for pre-tests and Common Entrance exams. She has provided English courses online to students from Harrow Beijing.
She has helped prepare students for interviews with Heads of School and for assessment days. Her aim is to help the student feel relaxed yet confident in their own abilities and give them the opportunity to show off their talents. She is more than adept in providing advice on exam strategy and revision techniques.
In addition, Juliet has helped students preparing for GCSE and A-Level Biology exams and some have improved by up to four grades.
Juliet has taken recent courses for professional development on Dyslexia, Autism, Special Educational Needs, Bullying Prevention and Child Protection.
Juliet has a calm, methodical approach, which is tailor made for each child. She enjoys helping each student to increase their confidence in their abilities and to succeed in exams. She aims to make the sessions fun and challenging to ensure that each student can perform at their best during school and exams. Many parents have commented that their children may not have liked certain subjects before coming to Juliet or have moved from the bottom to the top set following tutoring. She takes pride in inspiring others towards success.
Juliet
Subjects
Maths
Qualifications
PGCE Teacher training, BSc (Hons) Economics
Experience
Woodbridge School, Cranmore School, extensive private tuition
Casey has experience teaching Maths in the independent sector from Year 4 through to Year 10. On top of his scheduled teaching, he provided before-school 11+ preparation for students working towards 11+ entrance exams. He also offered private tuition at the weekend, tutoring senior school students who were preparing for their IGCSE exams. Casey understands what is required to excel at 11+ and 13+ and is well versed in the initial stages to success for IGCSE.
Casey is passionate about simplifying mathematical concepts and growing confidence in children. He takes great pride in the progress of his tutees, and puts their success at the forefront of his tutoring. Casey helps tutees identify key information in questions, and decide upon the best methods available to solve problems. His simple, methodical approach enables students to tackle problems one step at a time.
Casey has an incredible ability to encourage students and build their mathematical confidence. He believes that all students can master the basic skills in arithmetic and problem-solving. He adapts his approach to the individual needs of his students to improve their understanding at their own pace. Above all, Casey is passionate about Maths, and likes to make the learning experience as fun as possible.
Casey
Subjects
Maths, Science , Interview Technique
Qualifications
BSc (Hons) Science with Education, QTS
Experience
British School of Xativa, Extensive private tuition
Mark has taught in school and tutored privately towards IGCSE Maths and Science (Edexcel for both) for over 15 years both in the UK and, more recently, in Spain. His specialism is Chemistry, which he happily teaches through to A-Level and, after 20 years in the Chemicals industry prior to teaching, he knows what he is talking about!
He has been Head of Science at secondary level and successfully tutored students privately from leading public schools, including Latymer and Queen Elizabeth for Boys in North London.
His calm and sincere form of teaching always relaxes and builds enthusiasm and a desire for knowledge whatever the student´s level. He is able to engage with his students and to motivate them to do well in exams.
He adapts his lessons to suit differing learning styles and abilities, which he feels is essential to encourage the student to feel confident and competent. Mark has a highly motivational and friendly technique to teaching Maths and Science and will engage all types of students to enable improvement and success.
Mark has also worked with special educational needs (SEN) and, though tough, found it highly rewarding. This experience has given him a deeper level of understanding for the varying needs of an individual.
Mark is a keen tennis player and loves football, cycling and swimming as well as keeping up to date with the latest films.
Mark
Subjects
English, Maths, Verbal Reasoning, Non-verbal Reasoning, Interview Technique, ICT
Qualifications
PGCE teacher training, MA
Experience
St Paul's Girls' School, The English School, Kuwait
Jane is a highly experienced teacher and an excellent communicator. She has worked at management level as well as in the classroom both in the UK, including St Paul’s Girls, and in British international schools. Her experience covers Reception all the way through to Year 13 but she specialises in the 11+ Common Entrance exams (100% success) and, more recently, the GL online assessments.
She has 20 years experience preparing for examinations for entry to UK prep and secondary schools, as well as schools in the US and the highly competitive international independent schools in the Middle East. She is an expert in eLearning and online tuition having developed her school's eLearning strategy over the past few years.
A recent ISI inspection report mentioned her impact across the school and was particularly impressed by the confidence and independence of the children in terms of finding their own solutions to tasks and by the level of higher-order thinking that they employed. Jane sees the development of these skills as key to exam and general study success.
As well as using past papers and published resources, Jane devises a range of resources to engage pupils and she tailors them to each pupil's needs. She thinks it is important to set tasks into context in order to add another layer of meaning to the work. Jane is adept at breaking down tasks, questions and topics into their component parts and helping pupils to understand their structure. In fact, much work is done in analysing question types and finding both the similarities and differences between papers, believing that, if a child can identify a question type they will more quickly reach an answer.
Jane's last five performance reviews and lesson observations have all been rated 'Excellent' with comments on her attention to detail, diligence and approachability. A senior colleague described her to visitors as an 'inspirational teacher'.
Jane has also been a form tutor over the course of her teaching career, which adds another dimension to teacher pupil relationships. She enjoys developing these relationships and finding out about her pupils aside from their academic progress. Her mixed ability classes include pupils with a wide range of educational needs, and she is accustomed to differentiating in a number of ways: by task, by outcome, assessing for learning and one to one support.
Jane currently works in Kuwait and resides in Wales during the generous international school holidays. The time difference between the UK and Kuwait is just two hours. Her passions are travel, world food, collecting perfume, writing, reading fiction and political biographies, following international politics and movies.
Jane
Subjects
Maths, Geography, Interview Technique
Qualifications
PGCE teacher training UCL, Masters in Education
Experience
The Hampshire School, Chelsea, Beachborough School, Private tuition
Piers is an inspiring Geography and Maths teacher who instils the positive mindset needed in all learners. He is passionate about his subject and encourages learning through positive and interesting methods. As well as being teacher trained, Piers is currently completing a Masters in Educational Leadership. Piers has always had a love for learning and encourages his students to feel the same through creative and thought-provoking learning.
Piers has been a Head of Geography for over five years, firstly at The Hampshire School, Chelsea a Preparatory School in Chelsea, London before moving to Beachborough School, a Preparatory School in Buckinghamshire. Here, he has prepared students for numerous entrance exams, including 13+ and Scholarship to schools such as St Paul’s, Godolphin and Latymer, Westminster, Eton and Stowe. His students achieve consistently excellent results with Senior schools commenting on how well-prepared his students have been for their exams. Piers has also taught Geography to GCSE students with great success and is familiar with both the GCSE and iGCSE specifications.
As a further string to his bow, Piers has also taught and tutored Mathematics, preparing students 11+ and 13+ exams with clear success; his students have been offered places at leading senior schools, with many being awarded a Scholarship.
On top of his teaching expertise, Piers has also been heavily involved in preparing candidates for interview with their senior schools of choice. Competition is fierce but Piers, through his research, preparation and experience has an excellent understanding of the interview requirements of many of the leading senior schools, including the format and the types of questions that are asked. Piers encourages students to be confident within themselves and to talk expressively, allowing his students to show their prospective schools the best person that they can be.
Piers has a love for travel and exploration and looks to make the most of life through his friendly and energetic nature.
Piers
Subjects
English, Maths, Science , Verbal Reasoning, Non-verbal Reasoning, Interview Technique
Qualifications
PGCE Teacher Training, TESOL, Postgraduate Forensic Science
Experience
Christ Church Cathedral School, Hendon Preparatory School, Milton Keynes Preparatory School, EtonX
Angela is an expert in pre-test preparation to the highly competitive UK private schools. She has an excellent knowledge of the entrance exam requirements for British public schools, including Eton, Westminster, Wycombe Abbey and Sevenoaks. She has worked to prepare children in Maths and Science, through 13+ Common Entrance, 13+ Scholarship and also to success with GCSE particularly in the Sciences. Some students have been boosted from the bottom of their class to the top. Working on their confidence can be the key to see a major improvement in their performance. Angela tailors each lesson to a student's needs and individual learning style. She could not work harder in terms of preparation and dedication and will go to the nth degree to accommodate her students. She is a happy, caring and dynamic teacher who thrives on helping children to reach their goals.
During Angela's NQT year, she had the highly unusual honour of being appointed as a head of department in a London Prep school. During this time she highlighted issues that caused changes in science departments across over 120 schools. She also ran scholarship clubs, booster sessions and gave up her lunches and time after school to help students gain entry to the school of their choice. Parents commented to the headteacher that they had never seen anyone so dedicated to helping the children pass their entrance exams.
She then went on to teach at a prep school in Milton Keynes. Here she ran intervention lessons for children who struggled with English and maths and extension classes for children who were gifted and talented. During her time here, the independent schools inspectors rated Angela as an Excellent teacher (the highest level given to a teacher at that time) commenting that they had never seen such empathy and solicitude in action before. They decided that the care she gave to children meant the children showed greater achievement. In her free time Angela also tutored local children through the local 11+ exams. Gaining families who would want her to tutor their children for many years.
All the previous hard work led to Angela being appointed as head of Science and PSHE at Christ Church Cathedral School In Oxford. Here she taught the children of many Oxford academics, even hosting talks given by some of Christ Church's leading academics to boost the children's career options and interests. Also running a leadership skills club to boost the pupils skills for future life and Interview technique. She helped pupils to gain entry to schools such as Eton, Harrow, Magdalean college school, Radley and Westminster. These also included scholarship places.
Angela then began tutoring children for entrance exams full time. Gaining an indepth knowledge of entrance exams for many of the top schools including Eton, Harrow, Winchester, Wycombe Abbey, Sevenoaks, Charterhouse and the Perse.
She was also trained by Eton and taken on as a leadership tutor in their leadership course collaboration with EtonX.
Angela
Subjects
Maths, Science
Qualifications
PGCE teacher training, Oxford University
Experience
Haselmere Prep School, The Royal Junior School, Amesbury Prep
Ben is a whizz at Maths for pre-tests, 11+ and 13+ Common Entrance. He has a great deal of experience with Science as well, excelling at Scholarship level. Ben understands the high expectations of public schools and how to steer his students towards success. He is a highly motivated tutor who has a strong belief that all children can succeed if the correct approach to their style of learning can be found. His Psychology degree from Oxford University and his broad teaching experience has given him insight into respecting the individuality of every child and of adapting his teaching to each child’s personality and ability.
Ben has been Head of Science in two popular UK Prep schools and has a thorough knowledge of the curriculum for the 11+ and 13 + Common Entrance exams. He has taught and tutored both Science and Maths, helping children to win places and scholarships to prestigious schools such as St. Catherine’s (Bramley), St. Paul’s Girls’ School, Winchester and Charterhouse.
By engaging children in their own learning and by making tuition as enjoyable as possible, Ben believes that he can help them to grow in confidence and to reach their potential. His style of tutoring allows them to focus on exams without anxiety, helping them to understand questions and avoid errors. Most importantly, it can build up children’s belief in their own ability to succeed.
Ben
Subjects
Maths, Science
Qualifications
PGCE teacher training, Cambridge University
Experience
Great Conard School, extensive private tuition
After studying Physics at university, John decided that teaching Science was the way forward. He was awarded his PGCE from Cambridge University and taught Science to Years 6-8 in Suffolk. Following this, John taught all three Sciences as well as Maths in a number of different schools. Students ranged from Year 1 all the way to A level. More recently, he has focused on tutoring individuals, guiding students of all ages with their Science and Maths, but with a particular focus on 11+ and Grammar School entry exams. He works with purpose to improve the skills of his charges so that they succeed with entrance to their first choice school. John has a fun, encouraging manner and instils in his tutees a great sense of confidence going forward
John
Subjects
English, Maths, Science , Verbal Reasoning, Non-verbal Reasoning, Interview Technique
Qualifications
PGCE teacher training, CELTA, MBA
Experience
Extensive private tuition
Nina is an enthusiastic educator! She loves imparting knowledge to students and really wants to get them interested in the subjects they are learning. Nina’s areas of expertise are in Science and Mathematics where she teaches through Common Entrance and GCSE / iGCSE, through to A-Level. She is also somewhat pro at 11+ preparation. Nina has great experience and detailed knowledge of the requirements for pre-tests, 11+ and 13+ Common Entrance and Scholarship exams to the top British public schools. She has taught from Key Stage 2 through to A-level both in schools and as a private tutor.
After completing degrees in Science and Business Studies, Nina worked for many years in Investment Banking and Consulting. She then lived abroad in parts of Europe and South America, where she worked as a teacher. Her interest in teaching and learning then encouraged her to obtain teaching qualifications. Nina has experience of teaching Science, Mathematics, Literacy and English and is patient and sympathetic to the needs of her students. Having lived abroad with children herself, Nina understands the challenges faced by students in different education systems aiming towards entrance to British Schools.
Nina
Subjects
Maths, Non-verbal Reasoning
Qualifications
PGCE teacher training
Experience
King's College Junior School
Tamsyn is a highly qualified specialist Mathematics teacher who, after 12 years teaching and tutoring experience, is still fresh and enthusiastic in her role. Having taught for 6 years at King's College Junior School, Wimbledon Tamsyn is adept at guiding individuals through 11+ and 13+ Common Entrance and 13+ Scholarship for entry into highly academic schools. Tamsyn also teaches GCSE and iGCSE Mathematics. She works keenly with pupils who struggle with their confidence and ability in Mathematics and effectively builds enthusiasm and confidence in them.
Tamsyn tailors each tutoring session to the specific aims and ability of the pupil, taking great care to ensure her lessons are relevant and productive. She is a naturally dynamic and positive tutor and her enthusiasm for Mathematics is contagious even for the most resistant! Her aim is to help all her students reach their academic goals, but also to help them enjoy the process of getting there and really understand and appreciate the wonderful world of Mathematics!
Tamsyn
Subjects
Maths, Non-verbal Reasoning, Interview Technique
Qualifications
PGCE teacher training, Cambridge University, BA (Hons) 1st Class, Bristol University
Experience
Pembroke House (Kenya), Ibstock Place, Cottesmore Prep, Northcote Lodge, St Paul’s Cathedral School, Ashdown House Prep
During her 20 years of Prep school teaching, Marion has taught all ages and abilities in most subjects in both country boarding schools and London independent day schools. She has a passion for helping children like and understand Maths, in particular, and is adamant that the first step to success is always confidence. Through her good sense of humour and ability to relate to children of all ages, Marion will engage even the most reluctant learner and gently nurture their confidence in a way that suits them as an individual.
During her years both in the classroom and as Head of two Pre-Preps and a top London Prep School, Marion has gained an excellent knowledge of the English Public School system. She has experience in both the 11+ and 13+ entrance exam processes and has a treasure trove of really valuable advice on future public schools.
When not teaching, Marion will either be travelling, walking her spaniel or designing fresh flowers for weddings!
Marion
Angela is an expert in pre-test preparation to highly competitive UK private schools. She has an excellent knowledge of the entrance exam requirements for British public schools, including Eton, Westminster, Wycombe Abbey and Sevenoaks. She has also worked to prepare children in Maths and Science, through 13+ ...
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