About us
We measure before we teach
Every child starts with a diagnostic assessment that maps them against the curriculum objective by objective. Teaching follows what the map shows, in priority order, and we re-measure as we go.
The gap in the market
Parents currently choose between two half-solutions.
Platforms
Data, no teacher
Adaptive software measures a child continuously and produces useful data. Nobody sits with the child when the data says something is wrong.
Agencies
Teacher, no data
A tutor arrives and teaches well. They are working from impression and last week's homework, and if they leave, the picture leaves too.
We do both. The assessment gives us the data; we are the ones who then teach against it.
Why the same team every session matters
This is the mechanism, not a slogan. A diagnostic picture is only worth building if it survives long enough to act on, and continuity is what makes that possible.
What we notice in an assessment in September is the thing that shapes the session in March: that a child can do long division but not explain it, that their reading comprehension collapses on inference questions specifically, that they have quietly never been secure on equivalent fractions. None of that survives a handover note. Because the same few people teach every session, none of it has to.
That is also why we stay small. We are a family, we teach the sessions ourselves, and we would rather work with fewer children properly than more children through a rota.
The four stages
- Assess. A granular measurement against every strand of the curriculum, not a general impression.
- Map. The exact sequence of skills to fix, ordered by what unlocks the most.
- Teach. Every session targets a gap we measured, not one we assumed.
- Re-measure. The plan changes as your child does, and secure objectives drop out of it.
Deliberately unglamorous. The value is in refusing to teach anything before knowing whether it needs teaching.
Who teaches your child
Not a roster. These are the people who run the assessments and teach the sessions, every time.
Mohammad
Tutor
Computer Science, University of Manchester
Software engineer
Sara
Tutor
MEng Chemical Engineering, University of Oxford
Process engineer
Ahmad
Tutor
Law, University of Kent
Costs lawyer
The three of us teach every session. There is no pool of tutors behind this page and nobody is subcontracted: if you book, you are booked with one of us.
We do not message children directly. Scheduling, reports and anything about progress come to you. Where a child needs to be in a chat, a parent is in it too.
How to judge a tutor
Ask what a headline figure is calculated on. A pass rate quoted without a denominator is not a result, it is a marketing number, and the smaller the practice the more meaningless it gets. We do not publish one, because we could only produce an impressive figure by doing the same arithmetic.
Judge us on what you can inspect instead. Read our breakdown of the FSCE exam, compare it with anything else published on the subject, and see whose grasp of the exam you would rather have preparing your child.
Then judge us on your child. The most useful thing we can give you is not a statistic but an assessment showing where they stand against the curriculum this exam tests. It is free, and we will tell you plainly if our answer is that you do not need us.
What happens in a free assessment
Before you book anything, here is exactly what you are booking.
- How long it takes
- About 45 minutes with your child, then 15 minutes with you to talk through what we saw and answer your questions.
- Where it happens
- Online, on Google Meet. Your child joins from home on a laptop or tablet.
- What your child does
- A relaxed one-to-one session covering Key Stage 2 maths and English, done entirely out loud. We work through questions together, so we see how your child thinks, not just what they get right. There is no pass mark and nothing to prepare.
- What you receive afterwards
- A personalised written report, emailed the same day: what is already secure, where the gaps are, and what we would do about them. We will also arrange a follow-up call to go through it with you. See a sample report (PDF)
- What it costs
- Nothing, and there is no obligation to book any tutoring afterwards.
What we cover
Our focus is 11+ preparation for the Trafford Consortium and Clitheroe Royal. We also tutor Key Stage 3 and GCSE: mainly maths and English Language, as well as the sciences, geography and English Literature.
Find out exactly where your child stands.
A free diagnostic assessment maps your child against the Key Stage 2 curriculum, topic by topic, so preparation starts from evidence rather than a guess.
The assessment is free. You get a written report showing exactly where your child stands, and you’re welcome to use it to work on things at home, whether or not you book tuition. See a sample report.