A small group class costs less than one-to-one because the cost is shared, not because the teaching is thinner. The same tutors, the same platform, the same write-up afterwards. Small enough that the tutor can see who is stuck without anyone having to put their hand up.
A tutor teaches the class in real time on our own platform, with a shared whiteboard everyone can write on. Your child can ask a question and get an answer in the same minute.
Large enough that the class moves and your child hears other people asking the questions they were unsure about, small enough that a quiet child cannot disappear at the back of it.
Every class is recorded and the whiteboard is saved, so a missed week can be watched back. A written note follows each class, so you know what was covered and how it went.
We run one small group class at a time and teach it properly, rather than advertising a timetable we cannot staff. This is the one that is open.
Working through the GCSE specification across the year, at £10 an hour. Started 12 September and runs through to the summer exams.
Looking for a subject that is not listed? Tell us which one on the enquiry form. A class opens when there are enough students to make the group work, and one-to-one tutoring is available in Maths, English and Science in the meantime.
A class is not a lecture with the camera on. Most of the two hours is spent working, with the tutor watching what the class produces and changing direction when it is clearly not landing.
A short set of questions on what was covered the week before. It takes a few minutes and it tells the tutor what actually stuck, which decides how fast the rest of the class can move.
The tutor works through the method on the shared whiteboard, then hands it to the class. Students work the next one themselves while the tutor watches the boards and steps in where something has gone wrong.
Questions in the form the exam actually asks them, because knowing a method and recognising when a question is asking for it are two different skills. Marks are lost on the second one far more often than the first.
Work set between classes is short and specific rather than a stack of pages, and the tutor sees what came back before the next class starts. Every exam board we teach to is covered: AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC, CIE and Eduqas.
A student who follows most of what happens in school but needs the specification covered properly and a fixed weekly slot that makes the work happen. It also suits a household where the cost of weekly one-to-one across a whole year is the thing standing in the way.
If your child is several years behind on the foundations, a class moving at GCSE pace will not fix that, and we would rather say so than take the money. Start with one-to-one, find the gap, and move into a class once the ground is solid.
Not sure which describes your child? The free trial lesson is the cheapest way to find out, and a tutor will tell you honestly which of the two they think you need.
They are not competing products, and one is not a thin version of the other. They answer different problems, and plenty of families use both.
Best when your child is broadly keeping up and needs the specification covered properly, week after week, with the discipline of a fixed slot. Hearing another student ask the question they were too unsure to ask is worth more than it sounds.
Best when something specific is wrong and needs finding. A tutor can spend the whole hour on the gap that is actually causing trouble, which is usually older than the topic your child is stuck on. Rates are on the pricing page.
Ten at most, and usually fewer. That is small enough for the tutor to see who is stuck without anyone having to say so, which is the whole point of the format.
They do different jobs. A group class works through the specification at a steady pace with other students, which suits a child who is broadly keeping up. One-to-one is better when there is a specific gap to find and fix, because the whole hour goes on your child.
Every class is recorded and the whiteboard is saved, so your child can watch the lesson back and see the same working the class saw. You also get the written note afterwards, the same as any lesson.
One full hour with one of our tutors, free of charge. You will see how we teach before you commit to a class.
