About
About the Tutor
The English Tutor is a highly accomplished, Cambridge-trained
English teacher with almost forty years of experience
teaching students worldwide.
Background
After completing the Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) at the University of Cambridge in the 1990s, The English Tutor taught in a diverse range of UK comprehensive schools and prestigious international schools overseas. Almost four decades of teaching have provided a deep understanding of how students learn, where they commonly lose confidence, and what it takes to help them succeed.
Today, The English Tutor specialises in delivering high-quality, personalised tuition via Zoom, working with individual students, carefully structured small groups and home-schooling families. Her teaching combines decades of classroom experience with an in-depth understanding of the skills students need to become confident, perceptive and accomplished readers and writers.
Areas of expertise
- 11+ preparation: English papers, comprehension, creative writing and verbal reasoning for selective school entrance.
- Key Stages 2 & 3: developing sophisticated reading, writing, vocabulary and grammar skills.
- GCSE English Language: examination technique, unseen language analysis and creative writing.
- GCSE English Literature: literary analysis, essay technique, critical interpretation and examination preparation.
- A Level English: advanced literary analysis, critical interpretation, comparative argument, academic essay writing and examination preparation.
- Academic writing: helping students develop precise, articulate and increasingly sophisticated written expression.
- Bespoke tuition: individually tailored programmes designed around each student's ability, ambitions and areas for development.
- Examination boards: extensive expertise across all major examination boards, including AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR and Eduqas.
How The English Tutor teaches
Students learn through model answers, sophisticated vocabulary banks, essay plans, analytical frameworks, rigorous intellectual debate, targeted examination practice and detailed individual feedback. They are taught to evaluate and edit their own work and to become confident, independent and self-sufficient learners.
All students benefit from:
- A diagnostic first session, including a short piece of written work, so that teaching begins from evidence rather than assumption.
- Work is evaluated, marked, and returned with constructive written and verbal feedback.
- Regular progress notes for parents, and an open line for questions between lessons.
Credentials
- Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE), University of Cambridge.
- A teaching career spanning almost four decades.
- Highly experienced in all examination boards including but not limited to AQA, Pearson Edexcel, OCR and Eduqas.
- Specialist in online one-to-one, small-group tuition, workshops and webinars via Zoom.
- Enhanced DBS certificate.
Discuss your child's English tuition
Every enquiry begins with a short, no-obligation conversation about where your child is now and what they are working towards.