I'm an ex-grammar school teacher and GCSE examiner pursuing my passion for teaching and helping my students to practice real learning and thinking.

We prescribe self-reliance, self-expression, self-reflection and self-regulation in a student’s learning, which adds up to self-confident students.

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Helping me is Elizabeth, who managed a large library in Belfast for twenty years and doesn’t mind being known as ‘Library Liz’. She is passionate about the pleasures of reading and raising literacy levels. Elizabeth is a voracious reader, and is never happier than when she has a book in one hand and a good coffee in the other.  

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The other member of the family is our 16-year-old daughter who thinks she’s 21! A former Montessori girl she is now home educated and stress tests our resources, as well as stressing me!

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As well as 1-1 online tuition, I write English language and literature resources for age 11 and up, whether stand-alone or a sequenced series of lessons (Scheme of Work).

 

We firmly believe that every student can succeed, given the right tools.