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One-to-one English & Latin tuition
I teach GCSE and A-Level English, Latin and entrance-exam reading to one student at a time — with a written plan for the term, drafts marked between lessons, and a clear idea of what the next grade actually requires.
Subjects & stages
Four teaching lanes. Each one is built around the paper the student is actually sitting, so lessons track the mark scheme rather than a generic syllabus.
Years 10–11
AQA, Edexcel and OCR papers; unseen prose, poetry anthology and the two set texts your school has chosen.
Years 12–13
Tragedy, political writing and the unseen paper, plus coursework planning and critical reading.
GCSE & A-Level
Language papers and set literature, from accidence drills to verse translation and commentary.
Years 5–8
Comprehension, creative writing and verbal reasoning for independent and grammar school papers.
How a term runs
Tuition works when it is a routine rather than a rescue. This is the shape of a normal twelve-week term.
Before lesson one, the student sends a recent essay or translation. I mark it properly and we start from evidence, not from a questionnaire.
You receive a one-page plan: the skills we are fixing, the texts we will use, and what will be set between lessons.
Every other week the student writes a full piece. It comes back annotated, with one priority for the next attempt rather than twenty corrections.
In the final weeks we move to timed papers, planning drills and a short written review of where the remaining marks sit.
From the marking desk
Most students I meet are not short of ideas. They are short of a method for making an idea land in the examiner's hand.
A four-word quotation can be unpicked. A four-line quotation usually gets summarised instead. We practise cutting until only the arguable part is left, then writing two sentences about the word that carries the weight.
Five minutes of planning buys a structure that holds for forty. We rehearse a plan shape until it is automatic: position, three moves that complicate it, and a last paragraph that is allowed to change its mind.
“Write the sentence you would defend out loud. Everything else in the paragraph exists to support it.”
Formats & fees
Rates are per lesson and include marking of anything set between sessions. Blocks are invoiced at the start of each half-term.
| Format | Length | Rate | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|
| Weekly one-to-one | 60 minutes | £52 | GCSE English, Latin language and entrance work across a full term |
| Extended essay lesson | 90 minutes | £74 | A-Level Literature, coursework redrafts and set-text commentary |
| Paired lesson | 75 minutes | £40 each | Two students sitting the same paper who are happy to be read aloud to |
| Mock-season intensive | 4 × 90 minutes | £268 | The fortnight before mocks: timed papers, planning drills, a written review |
| Trial lesson | 45 minutes | £28 | Meeting first, with the diagnostic piece marked and discussed |
Questions parents ask
No. The trial is a single 45-minute lesson with the diagnostic piece marked beforehand. If it is not the right fit, you receive the marked piece and the notes regardless, and there is nothing further to cancel.
One full written piece a fortnight, plus a short reading or translation task on the alternate week. It is deliberately less than school sets, because the point is to redraft carefully rather than produce more pages.
Gladly, where the school is happy with it. In practice I follow the set texts and exam board the school has chosen and keep my plan aligned with their scheme of work, so nothing contradicts classroom teaching.
Lessons cancelled more than 24 hours ahead are moved to another slot in the same half-term at no charge. Inside 24 hours the lesson is charged, but I will still mark anything the student sends that week.
Yes. Resit work usually starts from the paper breakdown rather than the whole syllabus, and private candidates get help planning entry timing and coursework requirements alongside the teaching.
A laptop or tablet with a browser, a notebook, and a quiet table. Texts and marked drafts are shared on screen during the lesson and sent afterwards, so there is no printing or software to organise.
Enquire
Send a few lines about the stage, the exam board and what feels stuck. I reply with the slots that are free, what the trial lesson would cover, and the piece of work I would like to see first.