How it works & fees
From “working towards expectations”to exceeding them.
You’ve read enough reports that say working towards expectations. What they never tell you is what to actually do about it.
Here’s exactly how it works: a free call, a trial lesson, then a 12-week course built around your child — taught by me, every single week. No agency, no roster, no starting again with someone new.
Most families start with the call. Twenty minutes, no cost, and you’ll come away with a plan either way.
Where this is going
Three words decide how a parent feels about a school report. Most of my students arrive at the first one.
Where most families are when they find me. Bright child, disappointing paper, and a phrase that tells you there's a gap without ever telling you what it is.
The gap closes first. We find what's actually missing — the specific skills, not a vague sense of “trying harder” — and teach those directly.
Then something shifts. A child who believes they can do it stops playing safe, starts putting their hand up, and begins writing what they actually think rather than what they can get away with.
Every student I have taught to exam has improved by at least one grade. But the first thing parents notice isn’t the grade. It’s that their child has stopped saying they’re stupid.
The four steps
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Free call
Twenty minutes, just you and me, before your child meets me at all. Tell me what school says, what happens at home, and what you've stopped saying out loud because you're tired of being told it's fine. You'll come away with a plan whether or not you book.
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£79 trial lesson
One hour with your child, taught by me and built around everything you told me. No targets, nothing to get wrong. Afterwards you get a written summary of what I noticed — their strengths, the gaps, and where I'd start. Yours to keep, whatever you decide next.
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A plan for your child
A 12-week course written from scratch for them — their needs, their goals, the things they actually want to be better at. You'll know exactly what we're covering and what should change by the end. Nothing off a shelf.
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Regular sessions
Every lesson taught by me, same time, same face, every week. No roster, no handovers, no starting again with someone who hasn't read a word about them. A short note after each session so you can watch it happening. Twelve weeks is long enough to change how a child feels about learning.
Why twelve weeks, and not three lessons
Because confidence doesn't rebuild in a fortnight.
A child who has decided they're no good at something has usually spent years arriving at that conclusion. Undoing it takes repetition: the same person, the same time, the same predictable hour, going well enough times in a row that they start to expect it to go well.
That's not a sales structure. It's the reason it works. Three lessons will teach a child a technique. Twelve weeks changes what they think they're capable of — and that's the part that shows up in every subject, long after we've finished.
Getting the measure of it
Finding the real gaps, building trust, and getting a child used to being asked questions by someone who isn't going to be disappointed by the answer.
The shift
Skills start sticking. This is usually when parents email me to say something's changed at home before school has noticed anything.
Proving it to themselves
Applying it under real conditions, so the confidence survives contact with a classroom, an exam paper, and a teacher who isn't me.
How I support your child
Whether it’s dyslexia, ADHD, autism, anxiety or no label yet, the pattern parents describe is nearly always the same: a bright child who has stopped putting their hand up. My job isn’t to push harder on the subject. It’s to rebuild the thing underneath it.
We work on all three at once — but in that order, because the top of the stack won’t hold without the bottom.
Voice
Every child I teach has gone quiet in some way. The dyslexic child who dreads reading aloud. The ADHD child told off for speaking up so often they’ve stopped. The autistic child too exhausted from masking all day to say anything at home. As a speech and communication specialist, making it safe to speak again is precisely what I’m trained to do.
Confidence
A child who’s sure they’ll get it wrong will hide, guess or go silent — in any subject, with any tutor. So we build small wins they can’t argue with, in a predictable hour, with the same person, week after week. That’s the part that transfers into every classroom.
Results
Then the academic work: structured essays, confident reading, spelling that finally sticks, exam answers that show what your child actually knows. Plus the practical things — evidence for an EHCP, or a case for extra time.
Twelve weeks of that, with the same person every week, changes what a child thinks they’re capable of.
Arrange a free callTwenty minutes, no cost, and you’ll come away knowing exactly what I’d do.
Start with the call.
No cost, no obligation, and nothing your child has to do. Twenty minutes to tell me what's been happening, and I'll tell you honestly what I'd work on and what I'd expect to change. If your child has a plan, lessons can often be paid for through EHCP and EOTAS funded provision instead.
I teach every lesson myself, so I take a limited number of students at a time. If you'd like a place this term, it's worth sending me a few details about your child now.