My Specialisms
Dedicated homeschooling programme of learning for parents choosing to homeschool their children including regular one-to-one English lessons, monitoring progress, organising public examinations, and supporting/advising parents.
Bespoke face-to-face and online English tuition for all ages and abilities.
Customised lesson plans to suit each individual student’s needs and goals.
Regular assessments and analysis with marked feedback, targets and tailor-made homework set each lesson.
Interactive and collaborative online lessons with real-time teacher assessment and feedback. Automatic online saving capacity. Students can work anywhere, any time (even offline for independent homework tasks) using a computer, tablet or phone.
English language and English literature for all boards (AQA, OCR, EDEXCEL, CIE, IB) and all tiers at GCSE.
Literacy refresher courses for grammar, punctuation, spelling and vocabulary building.
English Summer School Learning Programme - a bespoke refresher and revision course designed specifically for individual’s set target areas including but not limited to the following areas:
Reading skills: Identifying and interpreting explicit and implicit information and ideas, Selecting and synthesising evidence from different texts, Analysing how writers use language and structural techniques to achieve effects and influence readers, Using relevant subject terminology to support views, Comparing writers’ ideas and perspectives, as well as how these are conveyed across texts, Evaluating texts critically and supporting this with appropriate textual references.
Writing skills: Creating clear, effective and imaginative communication, Adapting tone, style and register for different purposes and audiences, Organising ideas using structural and grammatical features to support coherence, Using a range of vocabulary and sentence structures for clarity, purpose and effect, with accurate spelling and punctuation.
SEND learning support - Specialist teaching / differentiated and accessible learning
Creative writing - fiction and non-fiction.
Poetry - composition and writing.
Essay writing skills - planning, structure, analysis, comparison and evaluation.
Speech writing and presentation skills for delivery.
Advanced study material provision.
Academic and professional writing.
University applications -UCAS form applications, personal statements and interview technique.
Job applications and interview preparation.
