Samantha has been working with my two children, age 5 and 6, for the past 8 weeks. I would highly recommend her tutoring and support. She is enthusiastic, engaging and makes the sessions relaxed for the children at the same time as being educational. She provides detailed feedback at the end of every session and it has really felt like she has taken the time to understand and support my children's individual needs and personalities. She has supported them both to progress with their learning and we are very pleased with the work she has done so far. Thanks you Sam!
From Phillippa
Sam is a prompt, highly organised lady where nothing is too much trouble. She has taken my son who suffers with ASD from being apprehensive and no real love of learning and turned him around. He looks forward to his sessions and has even picked up books and read out loud off his own back. She really does have a wonderful understanding of individual needs and is flexible to work at their pace as well as making learning fun. We will miss you, thank you for everything!
Oh wow! Thank you for such lovely feedback. I have thoroughly enjoyed working with you both and wish you every success in the future.
From Hannah
Lovely lady. My son liked her straight away and was keen for her to start tutoring him. Unfortunately Sam couldn't teach him for the duration we wished for as she was moving to another country and my husband and myself didn't want our son to get settled only to need another tutor after only a few sessions.
Hi Hannah,
Previously I have only ever have had 5/5 reviews by parents, all of whose children I have actually tutored. Therefore I am surprised you felt the need to give me a 3/5 star rating when I have not begun tutoring your son. As you know we met to discuss his needs and then I had a highly unexpected move overseas before I could begin. I would not have taken the time to come and meet you all and spend my time assessing his needs had I not intended to pursue this - especially as I did not charge you for any of my time. I did offer to complete a terms tutoring in the short term which you decided to decline.
I am not exactly sure of the intentions of leaving a review when I have not actually undertaken any tutoring for you but understand why you have chosen to look for a long term tutor. I was open and honest with you from the start as I always hold the child’s best interests at heart and wish you well in the future.
Kind regards Sam
From Tracy
Samantha has been working with my daughter who struggles with dyslexia and likely adhd, she also did not want a tutor. Samantha won her over in less than two minutes and she loves her sessions that are fun, active and engaging. I can see she is making real progress, her confidence and love of learning are returning.
Samantha is energetic and engaging I am very confident in her knowledge and ability. This is the best solution to help my daughter and I am relieved that we are making progress.
From Fleur
Samantha has been helping my daughter in Year 3 restore her confidence in Maths. She has been fantastic and I can highly recommend her. My daughter was for from keen to have a bit of extra help with her Maths, but now looks forward to her weekly sessions with Samantha and always leaves them with a beaming smile and excitedly telling me all that they have done together. Samantha is always extremely kind, punctual and reliable and I'm so pleased we found her.
From Wendy
Early days but so far I have been very happy with the tutoring support Samantha has provided for my son (just completed 2nd session). She has already built up a good rapport with him and always seems cheery which I feel inspires him to be enthusiastic about learning. She seems to have very promptly guaged where he is educationally and has tailored her tutoring to address his particular areas that need strengthened… We have now reached the end of one academic year of tuition for our son and have been really encouraged with his progress which has been demonstrated on his school report. Samantha has been a fabulous help - she had such a good rapport with him which really helped him generate an interest in learning and she was always so cheery and enthusiastic. She has helped him generate self-confidence to give things a try even if he's not 100% sure, whereas previously he would have refused. She's irreplaceable we fear! Found it invaluable that she was in a current teaching position at a local school so was completely up to speed with expectations for his year group and specific teaching methods that are currently in place, along with some top tips to help his understanding of certain things. Samantha was always open to discuss areas that you felt he needed more help with and anything of concern and was a pleasure to have in our home each week.
Thank you Wendy :-)
From Amanda
We started working with Sam as our daughter was falling slightly behing with her school work through Year 6. My daughter has been extremely comfortable with Sam and she always looked forward to her lessons. Sam is very patient while teaching and made the work fun which always kept her interested. I would definitely recommend Sam to anyone as a private tutor. She is very reliable and always managed to arrange lessons with me when needed. My daughter gained so much confidence with her work and is now happy to try out questions that she does not fully understand, something she would not be happy to do before she met Sam.
From Jonathan
Sam is the first tutor we have used for our son (aged 9) and we have been really pleased we organised a tutor. Sam has developed a good rapport, pitched the tutoring just right and been very reliable - just what we wanted. Jon H.
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