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Marina has been excellent with our 13 year old son who has been receiving English tuition for the past 2 months. She tailors the sessions to his needs and he has already said his confidence in English is growing. Although it is early days, we are very happy with Marina’s teaching style and most importantly our son is enjoying and getting a lot out of the sessions.

Oscar enjoys going to see Marina (and Lottie!). Marina carefully considered Oscar’s learning style from the first session and adjusted her teaching methods accordingly. The school have noticed progress and improvement in Oscar’s English objectives that Marina has covered which was wonderful to hear. We are so grateful for all she has done to help Oscar so far.

Marina only started tutoring a few weeks ago and she already has such positive impact on my daughter's confidence. My daughter has ADHD but she manages to keep her attention and make it interesting for her to stay focused. She is even keen to make her homework which is amazing.

Marina has been tutoring my 11 year old son for 10 months. The improvement in his confidence on reading, spellings and comprehension is unbelievable and has massively supported his transition from year 6 to secondary school. She is patient, calm, encouraging and shares techniques on remembering things. My son has a lot of respect for Marina and enjoys her tutoring sessions and never complains about doing the homework she sets and I believe that is because he feels the benefit of her sessions. I would highly recommend her tutor services.

Marina is friendly and very patient with my child. She gets on with my child and would like to see how my child’s English is improving over the time with Marina’s help.

My daughter has gone from not wanting to have a tutor to looking forward to her sessions with Marina.
Marina is working with my daughter to prepare her for 11+ entrance exams.

Marina is an excellent tutor and is really helping my daughter progress with her English GCSE work. She has been tutoring my daughter only since September but has already made a big difference in her understanding of her English coursework. She was able to identify from the first meeting exactly which areas my daughter would need extra help with. Would highly recommend.

Marina has been outstanding in every regard and she has managed to build confidence in our grand-daughter that we have not seen before. Marina has also brought a joy to the whole learning experience and has provided us with continuous constructive feedback. We are absolutely delighted.

Extremely happy with Ms Marina, cant be more satisfied and we are really pleased the way Marina is taking our girl through her studies in a very systematic and stressfree manner. Our daughter looks forward to the classes every week and always speaks nice about Marina.

Marina has worked patiently with my son to help with his writing. She has always responded very promptly to enquiries. She is adapting the sessions to make them fit with his interests.

My daughter is in year 6 and started with Marina at the beginning of September. My daughter really enjoys going to Marina’s once a week and already we can see the benefits, it has given her so much more confidence. Currently Marina is doing Maths with her and school can see a positive changes to her work.
Marina provides homework and emails feedback to me after each session, so we know what they have worked on and the areas which they need to work on further.
Both my daughter and I would definitely Marina to others.

She started tutoring my son only three weeks ago. My son enjoying learning with her. She is very professional and always on time.

Great start tutoring our six-year-old. Would recommend.

Efficient and flexible.

Friendly but professional. I can’t recommend Marina highly enough!

We have been very happy with the progress our son has made so far. He is much more confident in his ability and more structured in his responses. Marina has been quick to identify the gaps in his understanding / approach and deliver a lesson plan to improve in those areas. We have seen an improvement in every written subject as a result - thank you!

Marina is an excellent English tutor for my 10 years old son. She is very punctual and reliable. She is prepared and organised for each lesson. My son really looks forward to the tutoring sessions.

Marina has worked very well with our son and helped him grow in confidence with his English leading into his GCSE year. Marina's approach is professional and well organised, we would highly recommend Marina for additional tuition lessons.

Marina is very professional. She is very organised and has helped my daughter gain confidence. Highly recommend Marina.

Hi Marina
Just wanted to say Thank you, for your input while working with Orrin to improve his English Language GCSE grade. He was delighted with his result of Level 5, which was an improvement by two levels.
Considering he met with you for a short time, only 8 weeks before his exam, we are pleased with the result. Your approach gave him focus and strategies when completing the papers.
I would be happy to forward your details to other students who need English tuition.
Thanks again.
Triona.

Marina is wonderful with my two children and teaches them according to their very different individual learning styles. As a result they are both showing noticeable progression in their maths even after the very first session with Marina, and for me, just as importantly, especially in the case of my son who can suffer with lack of self confidence, I have observed / witnessed that their confidence in their abilities also rises with each lesson. For me this ticks the two most important boxes. Marina is also kind and nurturing, firm when needed and fair. Again these are all qualities that suit the needs of my children.

I found Marina while looking for support for my seven year old daughter, who was having a hard time adapting to the English language on top of difficulties with her reading and writing.
She now has been having classes with Marina for the past three months and I am very happy with the progress she’s made so far.
She always looks forward to her lessons which is a great sign, her confidence is growing and also is her interest in learning more and more.
I would strongly recommend marina to any parent looking for extra support for their child.

Marina has been a good patient teacher for our daughter and has made her revise and read books. Which we were trying to do. It has been given her confidence they she needed.

Isabella has improved leaps and bounds in the 6 weeks Marina has been tutoring her. Isabella is now actually enjoying maths and is more confident! Thank you so much. Nick

I can thoroughly recommend Marina. My son likes her teaching methods and the fact that she also sets homework each week is excellent. Although early days with Marina, I am very confident that good progress will be made as my son goes into year 10 in September.

My daughter is about to do her GCSE's this year. Historically, English has been the subject she has hated. However, over the past few weeks, she has found being tutored by Marina 'fun' and engaged with both learning language techniques and reading, something up until now she has completely avoided. It's still early days, but her confidence is definitely rising.

Marina is an excellent Tutor and really been kind and supportive . I would strongly recommend Marina as an inspirational tutor.

Very professional and friendly tutor, excellent punctuality, calm and positive. Marina is helping our 10 years old boy with English as second language started nearly from scratch as he just came to UK from Russia. Marina has her own methods and individual approach, and the boy has made a great progress already. He is actually looking forward for the classes with saying it is a good fun, and his confidence goes up so quickly! We really appreciate Marina's efforts and her teaching style.

Marina understands the individual learning needs and style of my daughter. She is kind, professional and patient. My daughters confidence in English has improved dramatically.

Marina has been incredibly helpful tutoring my daughter on the run up to her English GCSEs. She was very comfortable in Marina's company, we would definitely recommend.

My son enjoyed and benefitted from his tuition. The only minor complaint was a cancellation and a number of altered appointment times. Otherwise recommended.

We decided on finding a tutor because our daughter is academically delayed and we wanted someone to help with her English so that we could bridge the gap between our daughter and her peers. We have been thoroughly impressed with Marina. Her understanding of Special Educational Needs is good and her approach with our daughter is outstanding. We are so happy with the decidion to hire Marina that we wanted to extend the orginal arrangement to a long term agreement. We will not be looking elsewhere for a English teacher and I recommend Marina highly to anyone looking for help for their child/ren.

In the event we did not go ahead with the tutoring. MArina was very helpful and polite but a very experience neighbour of mine offered to do the tutoring and this was a good thing.

THank you To Marina for her offer.

We have been very pleased so far with how the tutoring is going. There has been clear communication with Marina, who is organised and made a good initial assessment. The lessons are giving our daughter greater confidence and specific help in the areas particularly needed, and she's enjoying them too.

Marina has been tutoring my daughter since October 2016 and has helped her build her confidence in English Comprehension and Literature. She has calm and kind manner and offers a variety of approaches to build skills and confidence. We hope to continue this relationship through to the end of the school year and possibly into secondary school as well.
Thank you Marina!

Marina did a good job helping my son to get the grades he was looking for in both English literature and language at GCSE where he was obviously struggling with his existing schooling. She has a great grasp of the subject and is knowledgeable in what it takes to help an individual progress significantly and in what is needed to successfully address the exams.

Cannot do enough to help my son, is flexible and reliable and in a very short space of time my son has come on leaps and bounds.

Marina is a very through and conscientious tutor that achieved great things with my son for his English GCSEs. As with many boys at this age, he wasn't a natural English student and could have been in difficulties getting the grades he needed to proceed to college. With Marina's skill, support and patience he developed from borderline Fail to achieve the grades he needed, and indeed an 'A' for Literature. I feel Marina has a natural sense of how to get traction and make a difference, whether working with the gifted or the challenged. Recommended.

Very good but have only had 2 lessons so far.

Marina has quickly pinpointed some specific areas our daughter help with. She has helped her feel more confident about approaching her GCSEs with this extra support. Thank you!

Marina has been a big hit with our two boys aged 14 and 11. Both enjoy the 1-1 time. Confidence has grown and best for me is that they both look forward to going!

My daughter has had few first sessions and she becam more confident.

Only 2 lessons in so a bit early to assess results, but so far so good. She has assessed out sons ability and has a plan to work to based on this. Our son seems motivated and happy to work with Marina.

Fabulous. Friendly and nurturing and honed in on exactly what my daughter needed. Good to see homework was given too.

Gemma really looks forward to her lessons. She has already improved in the few lessons she has had.

Very professional and makes my son feel at ease.

Marina is an excellant support to my daughter's education. Marina is providing focused support on both english and maths for our daughter's upcoming SATS. Marina is punctual and has not only developed a good rapour with my daughter but communicates the subjects well to her, concentrating on her weaknesses after an initial assessment. We intend to keep the lessons going and would recommend her without any hesitation.

Marina has been providing English tuition to my year 9 daughter, Beatrice for 4 months and during that time, we have seen real progress with Beatrice's confidence and writing skills. Marina has started from the basics (quite of lot of which had been forgotten) building to the more complex topics whilst at the same time, working on some of the topics being covered in class. This means that Bea is more prepared and can develop a better understanding of her classwork and homework. Marina is very organised and seems to have very good knowledge of the KS3 and GCSE curriculum which is reflected in her lesson plans. She is patient, very hard working and sets appropriate homework which consolidates the skills learnt in the lesson. Most importantly, Beatrice is very fond of Marina and trusts her which is helping her to unlock her potential. I would not hesitate to recommend Marina as an English tutor.

Marina has immediately formed a good relationship with Robyn. She quickly found Robyn's level and weaknesses and has been able to challenge her. After every session Robyn is bursting with enthusiasm for learning and eager to know more, she has in fact begged me to continue with this tutoring arrangement even though it is no longer needed. We have decided that Marina is a great benefit to Robyn's general education and therefore are continuing with sessions even though she no longer wants to take the 11+ exam. I would recommend this tutor to other parents without hesitation.
Jo Grobbelaar

Marina has built a good relationship with my daughter, very quickly. Marina is always on time and discusses what has been covered in the lesson. Although they have only just started to work together I feel positive that we made the right decision regarding getting a tutor to help my daughter. Emma looks forward to Marina coming and is happy working with her.