Hello!
Since graduating from Cambridge, I have tutored professionally, helping and getting to know hundreds of wonderful students and families. I love my role as a tutor — unlike teachers at school, I can work in a tailored, personal way, cutting out the distracting stuff and going straight for what matters. In my experience, it is also often a breath of fresh air for young people to be talked to in an honest, relaxed way, without being patronised.
I have always had an impeccable academic record (for example: 2 major scholarships to Charterhouse, 11 A*s at GCSE, 4 high A*s at A-Level) and I have a confident understanding of the various syllabuses. I have a robust record of improving students' work, turning many Ds into A*s as well as helping people successfully navigate through scholarship exams and the Oxbridge admissions process.
Something else important which sets me apart from the crowd is the fact that I have always known how to handle exams and get good results. This is a knack which not everyone has, which I can hopefully pass on!
Outside of tutoring, I make music and art (completing a Masters in Popular Music at Goldsmiths in 2019). I also love games, sports and the outdoors, and I have undertaken counselling training.
Please do get in touch; I would be delighted to help.
I have thousands of hours' experience tutoring students at prep school, GCSE, AS, A-Level, Cambridge Pre-U, and IB, in English, French, Spanish, Latin and EFL, as well as many casual and professional adult learners. I have also taught Latin as an after-school activity for primary age children (7-11). I have extensive experience preparing for entrance exams and interviews.
All in all, a very wide range of students/ages/teaching remits. Please have a look through my feedback to see what my previous students on First Tutors have thought.
Even when I was at school myself, I was taking note of how teachers did things, and understanding what worked and what didn’t. By the time I started tutoring I was already very confident, and now I am of course more confident still.
At school it is all too easy to fall behind and never quite get picked back up again. As a result, many students are very confused. I am an expert at stripping things back, and building from the fundamentals upwards, in the clearest way possible. In terms of literature and analysis, through my years at school, Cambridge and teaching I have developed a simple method of understanding what it’s all about, and how to put it into practice. I have lost count of the times a student has said that they learned more in a single lesson with me than they have in their entire time learning the subject at school, or that they never really understood what the point of analysis/studying literature was until I helped them with it.
It is, of course, essential to review past papers and study the specific requirements for a given exam; however, this is not everything, and I believe that there are some more general principles which help across the board. For example, writing technique (essay structure and argument, for example) is an essential tool not limited to a particular section of a particular paper. Another very important element of language study is translation, a skill which is often overlooked but which I believe is one of, if not the best way to improve language competence.
My cancellation policy is as follows: if a student cancels a lesson within 24 hours, 50% of the lesson is due to be paid; if within 8 hours, the full fee is due.
Languages | English (British), French, Italian, Latin, Portuguese, Spanish |
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Availability | Weekends, Weekdays (all times) |
References Available | On File |
Charterhouse School | 2007 | School | 11 A*s - GCSE | |
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Charterhouse School | 2009 | School | A**, A**, A**, A* - Cambridge Pre-U (A-level equivalent) | |
Cambridge University | 2014 | Bachelors | Modern & Medieval Languages | |
Goldsmiths, University of London | 2019 | Masters | MMus - Popular Music |
Feedback | |
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Unpublished feedback (Usually negative) | 0 |
English | |
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Primary | £90 |
Secondary | £90 |
GCSE | £90 |
A-Level | £90 |
University | £90 |
Casual Learner | £90 |
French | |
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Primary | £90 |
Secondary | £90 |
GCSE | £90 |
A-Level | £90 |
University | £90 |
Casual Learner | £90 |
Spanish | |
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Primary | £90 |
Secondary | £90 |
GCSE | £90 |
A-Level | £90 |
University | £90 |
Casual Learner | £90 |
Latin | |
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Primary | £90 |
Secondary | £90 |
GCSE | £90 |
A-Level | £90 |
University | £90 |
Casual Learner | £90 |
Entrance Exams | |
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Primary | £90 |
Secondary | £90 |
GCSE | £90 |
A-Level | £90 |
University | £90 |
Casual Learner | £90 |