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We are so lucky to have Hilary as my son’s tutor in English Language and Literature. She is very experienced and organized. Only after one or two lessons, she's already figured out the area where my son needs to improve and made plan to better prepare for his GCSE exams. She keeps me informed of her progress and provides us with slides to review after each lesson. She is very encouraging and knows very well how to boost my son’s confidence. My son enjoys her lesson very much and we are happy that he is now in the right direction. I would highly recommend her to everybody!

Hilary is an excellent teacher! She is a warm, kind and conscientious tutor with excellent teaching skill. She is very organised, has a wealth of knowledge and experience. My daughter is preparing for GCSE exam, I can see that my daughter made a huge progress and gained a lot of confident in just couples lessons with Hilary. We would have no hesitation in recommending her to other families.

Update on 6 September 2023:

Hilary has tutoried my daughter over a year in English Language and Literature weekly. She has enabled my daughter to grow in confidence and guided her in the right direction. Hilary was very supportive and kept me informed of her progress. Her experience and knowledge in both subjects are excellent. With her help my daughter achieved GCSE grade 7 in English Language and grade 9 in Literature. I would highly recommend her!

My son, Richard, has been studied with Hilary since year 8. She is an enthusiastic and knowledgeable tutor. She has always provided high quality of tuition to my son consistently. With her wonderful tuition, my son has achieved a grade 7 in English language and a grade 8 in English Literature in GCSE.

I am a mature student with English as a second language who approached Hilary for tutorship. Hilary’s experience in teaching shines through with her ability not only in deconstructing the questions but, in also being able to ask thought provoking questions to help you develop your existing skills. She is kind and her patience allows rooms for questions!

If you are looking for an experience tutor look no further!

Hilary seems to have assesed very clearly where my daughter needs support and is now building a plan to help close those gaps. My daughter enjoyed her first session - which is critical if she is going to gain from them. Really pleased with this initial lesson

Hilary was a life saver following disappointing GCSE mock result. She put together a comprehensive study program online to strengthen our sons weak areas. We quickly saw the benefits of these lessons and improved confidence leading to a strong pass. Hilary is very professional and knows how to connect with this age group. Highly recommended.

Hilary started tutoring my 15 year old son recently. She is an excellent tutor in fact the words my son used to describe her is ‘amazing and the best English teacher he has had”. My son struggles with essay writing and exam technique. In Hilary's first session with my son she picked up dyslexic markers in his writing. This has never been picked up by any of his teachers over the years. His dyslexia assessment did indeed show that he had issues which are now being addressed by the school and just in time for his GCSE exams. We are so grateful for Hilary’s experience as my son would have continued to struggle without anyone realising why. Hilary's in-depth knowledge of the GCSE syllabus along with her teaching method has boosted my son’s confidence and understanding of what is required of him in his forthcoming exams. Her tutoring sessions are always interesting and her enthusiasm for the subject keeps my son engaged. Hilary is friendly and approachable and I would have no hesitation in recommending her.

My daughter has absolutely loved her sessions with Hilary. Hilary is extremely well prepared for her lessons and has provided really clear feedback to the work she has sent to her. As a result Iona has definitely grown in confidence and has now decided to apply for the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme in 6th form and continue studying English. I do not think she would have considered this option were it not for Hilary.

Thank you Hilary for helping her believe in herself. Your support has been invaluable.

August 22 - We have just received Iona's GCSE results and she was so thrilled to get a 9 in both English Language and English Literature. This would not have been possible without the help and encouragement from Hilary who she is looking forward to working with throughout the IB course over the next couple of years.

Hilary has been brought in to help my son prepare for GCSEs and she has done an excellent job.
My son has just had his GCSE results and he got an A in Language and A in Literature.
We are over the moon with this !!!!

Excellent work Hilary !

Thank you

Hilary is an excellent tutor. My daughter thoroughly enjoys the approach to learning and content covered with Hilary in her GCSE English. She is very knowledgeable and inspires confidence in my daughter. Absolutely no hesitation in recommending Hilary for tutoring.

Hilary gave my daughter the confidence and knowledge to gain an excellent pass at A level - an A*
We credit Hilary with this fantastic result and she is now on the her way to the University of her choice to study English. Thank you

Our daughter was lacking confidence in her English GCSE preparation which led us to Hilary just before Christmas 2021. Within a few sessions, our daughter was achieving much better grades at school and has continued to grow in confidence. While shes only just sat her formal GCSEs so we dont have the results yet, she acheived level 9 in her mocks.

Hilary's been fantastic and we'd highly recommend her to anyone. Thank you Hilary!

Hilary is an excellent tutor. My son’s grades have improved after just a few weeks and he now feels much more confident.
I have no hesitation in recommending Hilary

Hilary is a great English tutor who is very experienced and has a wealth of knowledge about not only English but also the process of the exams. Hilary's online tutoring sessions are really helpful and it is easy to communicate with her via zoom as she shares her screen as we go through each question in the exam so it's clear and thorough. I would highly recommend Hilary as a tutor.
Update: I have just received my results for the November 2021 exams and I got a 9. I wouldn't have been able to get this result without Hilary's guidance and encouragement.

Hilary has made such a difference to my son’s attitude towards and achievements in GCSE English. He is currently in year 11 and over the last 8 months we have seen a real improvement. In fact, he has now decided to do A Level English Literature, something we would never have envisaged last year. Hilary has a great way of bringing the texts to life. She has shown our son how to structure essays and understand what the essay questions are asking him to discuss - something he hasn’t been taught before. These techniques and new ways of thinking have also helped his other essay based subjects such as History. Hilary often marks practice essays outside of our hour slot and does this quickly so that we have feedback in the next lesson. Her knowledge of the texts studied in schools is excellent and she obviously has a passion for teaching literature and wants her students to feel comfortable and do well. I am glad we found Hilary and so is our son!

Hilary is very helpful. She explains the techniques in a simple manner that is easy to understand and engages with the students.

We started tuition with Hilary a few months back, after my daughter received a very low grade for her English language mock exam. We had some brief chat about my daughter's situation before started the lesson. It stroke me straight away that Hilary was very experienced and confident. She knows the AQA curriculum extremely well. Her confidence transpires in her lessons. She is always well prepared, on time and professional. My daughter finds her lessons engaging, and very much 'to the point'. She actually said she learnt so much more from Hilary than her 'terrible' teacher in school:) I appreciate Hilary looks at my daughter's overall progress, tailoring and adapting her lessons to complement what they do in school. She covers all topics in both Eng Lang and Lit. It's a well balanced approach. She always marks the homework very efficiently, mostly in her own time, and the supporting resources are very helpful. Initially we would always prefer fact to face tuition. But we found Hilary during lock down and we are very happy with online teaching. It seems just as effective, but minus the travelling time. And this meant the pool of candidates we could select from was much wider, we could find the teacher that suits us most. My daughter is currently preparing for her final exams in May. Her confidence has grown so much. She said the work she has done with Hilary so far has made her examine and appreciate English words more! We hope her grades will improve. For now she is certainly feeling a lot more positive about the exams! Update: my daughter achieved a 9 in English literature (full marks!) and a 7 in English language in her final GCSE exams. Happy days!

We were looking for a tutor for our son as he was falling behind in his GCSE literacy and lacked confidence. He was anxious that he might not pass his GCSE in both language and literacy. Hilary started workng with him towards the end of the first lockdown. She immediately identified what he needed to do to improve and filled him with confidence by providing him with feedback that was accurate, targeted and helped him to make progress quickly. She gave him strategies and techniques for managing the papers and helped him develop his exam technique. Her subect knowledge and the fact she is an exam marker (an added bonus) provided him wiht the skills and knowledge he needed. Hilary had high expectations of him which he was motivated to achieve. An outstanding tutor , he passed with flying colours!

Hillary has been working with our daughter for 6 months supporting her with her English GCSE’s. Hillary’s tutoring came at an essential time close to the beginning of her mocks during the lockdown period. Teaching has covered English literature and English Language focusing on key texts using exam papers to identify strengths and gaps to build on and improve core skills, developing

• Sentence structure
• Verbs
• Paragraph structure
• Punctuation
• Descriptive writing.

Hillary has been very flexible in supporting our daughter around the exam time table, marking work at weekends ahead of sessions on the Monday to maximise learning. Hillary provides detailed feedback and notes on work done along with support materials and reference to other resources.

Our daughters’ confidences, ability and understanding of how to approach and answer an exam paper has increased significantly. Hillary’s coaching has made a very big difference.

Update 12th August 2021

Our daughter achieved 6/6 in English. Well above her anticipated grade before she began with Hilary. The time spent with Hilary was invaluable giving her the skills, knowledge and confidence to do well in very difficult circumstances.

We also feel that the tuition enabled our daughter to apply many of the skills learnt along with renewed confidence towards her other exams focused on written work leading to a 7 in History and Citizenship.

Our 17 year old son needed help with his English GCSE and Hilary was absolutely brilliant with him, resulting in a grade 7. He said, after his first lesson with her, that she was the most inspiring teacher he'd ever had, and that he knew he would get on well with her. This is due to her ability to establish and maintain a good relationship as well as instilling confidence in him with her experience and professionalism. She went above and beyond the call of duty, preparing bespoke lessons for him in the midst of the change of exam requirements due to Covid. She has a knack for holding a teenager responsible and accountable, whilst at the same time being gentle and sympathetic when needed - a rare quality. I would definitely recommend Hilary to anyone.

We are very happy with Hilary. She has encouraged my daughter to like English subject again.
Her methods of teaching are professional, positive and easy to understand.
We highly recommend HIary as an English tutor.
My daughter is enjoying learning with Hilary and the results of their time together have improved her understanding of the English subject and her assignment results are now top-notch. Thank you, Hilary, you are much appreciated.

Hello Hilary, the June 2021 exams have passed and we've received the results. My daughter is based in Europe and the lessons were given successfully via zoom by Hilary. First Language English (Oral Endorsement)(0500) IGCSE A* (91)

BIG THANK YOU TO HILARY We are over the moon.
HIGHLY recommend Hilary in every way. Sincere, professional and caring.

Hilary is an excellent tutor! She tutored my daughter ahead of her A-Level English exams. My daughter's confidence and abilities rose markedly in a short space of time, and she always looked forward to her sessions. I am so happy to have found Hilary and can't recommend her highly enough.

Hilary was great helping my son with GCSE English and A Level Film Studies .He suffers with ADHD but her patience and knowledge of the subjects gave my son a lot of extra confidence in the exams.

My son was always happy to have lessons with Hilary and it gave him a better understanding of the subjects and new techniques to use.I would highly recommend Hilary for anyone requiring a tutor for English or Film Studies.

My daughter has been working with Hilary on her English Language A level for a few months now. The improvement she has made is amazing. Hilary knows exactly what she needs and sets her weekly homework which she marks thoroughly. My daughter feels much more ready for the coming exam and is expecting to do well, thanks to Hilary. I would very warmly recommend her.

Thanks to Hilary my daughter secured a good grade in her English Language GCSE which she resat. Hilary has also given her a huge boost with her English Literature A Level both in terms of her confidence and her grades, as she really wasn't getting the individual attention from school. Hilary is very experienced and professional, has recommended alternative resources and provides very constructive and comprehensive feedback on the work she produces.

I would highly recommend Hilary to anyone looking to give their child a boost in their education. The lessons have made a huge difference in a surprisingly short time. She has the resources to assist my daughter to understand concepts she might be struggling with at school. I found Hilary to be very helpful, in helping her make progress.

A perfect teacher. Kind and informative, my daughter says she already feels like she has progressed so much!

Hilary has been an absolute life saver in our house. My daughter had lost any love for English in school in Year 9 and then after a prolonged period out of school due to a major operation, she had little motivation to get stuck back into her English work. Hilary with her absolute passion for the subject, highly accomplished teaching skills and huge experience of exam teaching has guided my daughter back to enjoy English to the point that she even mentioned taking it as an A level subject the other day! What a remarkable turn around.
Hilary is at all times professional but also brings a real human touch, fun and humour to my daughter's lessons. After 3 months out of school recuperating, followed immediately by lockdown, my daughter essentially has missed most of Year 10. However, within a couple of lessons we quickly realised Hilary's value and upped our sessions to two online per week. My previous concern about my daughter being behind when returning to school in September are now allayed as Hilary has her back on track and beyond. We have decided to continue with Hilary for the rest of my daughter's GCSEs. She has boosted her confidence and achievement beyond all recognition and I would not hesitate in recommending Hilary to anyone. The online teaching has worked perfectly, with shared screen with homework and feedback given regularly. It literally feels like Hilary is in the room. The fact that Hilary is a qualified teacher with years of classroom teaching experience shines through. There's no accounting for that type of intuition when working with young people, it comes from years in the classroom, knowing what makes young people tick and how to work with them to achieve their best. It was important to us that my daughter was taught by a qualified teacher. My daughter said to me the other day,'I'm so pleased we're carrying on lessons with Hilary through next year, I would miss her so much if we stopped and I really enjoy my lessons with her'. Enough said! Thank you Hilary, I as a parent will be forever grateful for finding you at a particularly challenging time in our lives You have helped so much.

Ms. is a very experienced English teacher, her teaching style is humorous and charming. She also cares about students and teaches them according to their aptitude. Ms. has helped my daughter a lot. My daughter's studies have been greatly improved and she has become more confident. Thanks for her teaching, She is the best teacher!

Hilary has made Bea feel really at ease and confident. She has a lovely manner and is so encouraging. We got really lucky!!

We have been extremely lucky to find Hilary at very short notice to help my son address certain areas of weakness in his English GCSE work. Hilary very quickly identified these and started working with him straight away. In his own words my son found Hilary to be an excellent teacher with fantastic knowledge and a ‘great teaching technique’. He really appreciated the structure of the lessons and was able to focus in. He described Hilary as being warm, encouraging and friendly. It was evident he fully engaged with Hilary and worked hard in the tasks set for him. He is thrilled with what he has learnt and feels more confident in his approach. It is obvious that Hilary is extremely professional, dedicated and committed to helping her students and going over and above expectations. Thank you very much for all your help Hilary, Seb will miss his lessons with you!

Hilary has been a wonder. My son immediately felt comfortable working with her. Even in the few weeks we had due to GCSE being canceled huge progress was made and his confidence increased. Having only got a 3 for his first mock before Christmas he is likely to now receive a 5.
Hilary sent loads of helpful sheets and suggestions as well as the weekly meetups online. I highly recommend her, she far exceeded my expectations.

I would like to sa**Contact Detail Removed**ge thank you to Hilary for all her hard work with my son Zachary. He is a bright student who underperformed in his English Literature mock examinations in December as he simply wasn't clear what was needed to achieve the highest grades. He lost his belief in his ability to succeed in English. After only a couple of sessions with Hilary his self-belief was restored and he started to work with determination to improve. She gave him excellent guidance on what he needed to taking him from a grade 5 to a grade 7 in about 5 weeks. He quickly threw himself into everything spending evenings watching Macbeth and listening to Silas Marner on every journey into school. I have absolutely no hesitation in recommending Hilary to you. She will identify areas of weakness quickly and give you the tools you need to succeed. Thank you very much Hilary for all your hard work with Zachary.

Hilary is such a lovely, kind person who clearly cares so much about English and the people she teaches. She has put so much time and effort into helping me improve when my teachers said there was absolutely no chance I would.
Hilary is only ever an email away and always replies fast and whenever I have been stressed out she has helped me calm down considerably; whether this is English or any of my other subjects. I can't recommend Hilary as a tutor enough… I only wish she was my actual teacher during A-levels because she is leagues ahead in terms of teaching and actually caring about me as a student. I could literally write an essay on how brilliant she has been! She has been so understanding of my situation, helped me bring my confidence up and talked through issues I've been having and that is something that I cannot thank her for enough. If I could give her more than 5 stars, I would!

Hilary is an outstanding Tutor- she is accommodating, flexible,enthusiastic and friendly. My daughter is in year 13 , studying A level English lit and she is much more confident. I highly recommend Hilary.

Hilary has gone above and beyond as an A level tutor for our teenager. Hilary's patience, guidance and encouragement has helped enormously and given our daughter confidence and a new found appreciation of literature. Hilary's knowledge and love of literature has really been an inspiration. Lessons have been well planned out and she is always happy to email between lessons if any need arises. I am so relieved that we found Hilary.

Cannot recommend Hilary highly enough. Hilary has helped my son to tackle his coursework and exam strategies changing his attitude towards the subject. He is now achieving much higher results than he could have ever imagined.

Hilary is prompt, reliable and happens to be very good at what you need her for… Hilary tutored my son recently and we were up against a very short time scale. She was prepared to stay and extra half hour to help out which was very much appreciated. You won't be disappointed if you ask Hilary to tutor.

Hilary is responsible and lessons are well prepared. She would design lessons to fit each student's need. An excellent and very experienced tutor.

great tutor!

I lived in Britain five years ago with my family and then moved to Plymouth. I found Hilary on the website and told her that my daughter needed help in studying English for her IGCSE exam, our English is not perfect because Arabic is our first language. Hilary did a great job and focused her on basic language skills. Hilary really cared about my daughter's education, she also contacted with the head of the English language department at the school and told them that my daughter needed help in developing her English. My daughter is very happy with her, Hilary is very caring, smart and has a special teaching style. Hilary is friendly and nice to my daughter and my family as well, we are so glad that we met her. You are amazing.

Thank goodness we found Hilary . We asked her to help with my daughter's GCSE english revision at short notice just weeks before the exams . It immediately became clear that her knowledge of the subject and the exams are way beyond the teachers at my daughter's school.
The lessons are upbeat and inspirational and my daughter has learnt to love the subject and gain confidence in her ability .
Hilary clearly puts a lot of her own time focusing on her students requirements , she is thoroughly prepared and provides study guides and past papers . Being able to go through a past paper once a student has completed it , one to one , is invaluable . My daughter has that opportunity to really learn , understand and ask questions .
If we'd known how beneficial tutoring was we would definitely have started the process years earlier .
Thank you Hilary you are a star !

An amazing find !! I can highly recommend Hilary she has boosted my daughter’s confidence 100%. The scores my daughter achieved in her tests got higher and higher and hopefully Jess will do well in her final exams. On line tutoring is brilliant as you can book in as many sessions as you want without worrying about transportation to a tutor which is a definite bonus! Thank you Hilary

Hilary came back quickly to our response. It was easy to set up some extra sessions prior to GCSE resits. She has a passion for the subject and this is obvious from the way she teaches. She had limited time but immediately built a rapport and built my sons confidence guiding him through both papers. Arranged online sessions the night before each exam. Thank you so much for helping us. Would I recommend yes definitely. Wish we had meet her before.

Very warm and compassionate and put my daughter at ease.

Hilary was a breath of fresh air who swept in late in the day (due to us losing the previous tutor die to ill health) - she started with gusto and made it clear to the two boys (one doing GCSE and the other A level) that they had to start working hard immediately. Her manner energised the boys into stepping up the amount of work they did enormously. I will focus on Jack the older boy who was studying for A level English Literature.
Jack had been drifting along with his studying but after Hilary started teaching him he began to work hard. Hilary has enormous energy and works to hard tailoring her teaching to the individual needs. I would say that she put as much work into the lessons as the boys did afterwards. Her example encouraged them.
There is no doubt that her help with Jack at A level made an enormous difference to the outcome and Jack obtained the grade he needed to get into his first choice university.
My only regret was that we did not find Hilary sooner. I would recommend getting her started ideally at the beginning of the A level course in year 12 but certainly no later than the beginning of year 13.
I can highly recommend her.

Very helpful throughout all of my studying and a lovely lady with an incredible attitude towards helping me pass my QTS test. Boosted my confidence and will defiantly be on my mind for future studies.

Hilary is very reliable, very engaging and is very good at encouraging my son to feel more confident about english. We are very optimistic that our son will achieve the grades he needs with hilarys' help.