How It Works

Five steps, and none of them a surprise

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Day one

You get in touch

Fill in the enquiry form. We ask for your child's school year and what you would like maths tuition to change. It takes about a minute, and we come back to you within a working day to get the Success Session in the diary.

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Where it starts properly

The Student Success Session

A free half hour, and the part that actually matters. We work with your child briefly so that you can watch the method rather than read about it, and you leave with a clear view of where they are and what would help. Both parents are welcome, and we would encourage it.

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Before the block begins

The diagnostic assessment

A fuller 30 to 45 minute session, one to one. It is not there to produce a number. It identifies conceptual strengths, the misconceptions underneath them, how your child handles being unsure, and how they explain their thinking. From it we set five goals that stay visible for the whole block.

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Twelve weeks

The lessons

Two live hours a week in a group of three to five, aligned to school terms. The programme pauses over school holidays, so it runs alongside your child's year rather than on top of it.

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End of the block

Assessment and review

A second assessment revisiting those original five goals, and a call to go through it. You get a comparison rather than a grade, showing what has shifted in understanding, reasoning and confidence, plus an honest recommendation about what should come next.

While it is running

You will not have to ask how it is going

Most tuition leaves parents guessing between one invoice and the next. We would rather the information came to you than you had to go looking for it.

A live progress tracker about your child

Not a group newsletter, and not a login you have to remember. Two specific observations from that week's lessons, what progress your child made in that lesson, one thing to focus on in the classroom, and the recordings. Track your child's progress anytime with this single link.

Conversations across the block

A call after the first week to confirm the pathway is right and a call once the closing assessment is done. With your permission, we will add you to your child's class WhatsApp group to connect with other parents. You can also message us privately on WhatsApp at any time.

Lesson recordings

Linked in that progress tracker, available for 10 days, then deleted. That is a safeguarding decision and we do not make exceptions to it, including when asked. Access to these lessons is restricted to you and the families within your child's group.

The practical bits

Where: Online and live, over Zoom. Lessons run on prepared slides with live annotation from a graphics tablet.
When: Twice weekly, in 12 week blocks aligned to school terms. Block one runs with term one, and so on.
What your child needs: A quiet spot, pencil and paper, ideally a headset, and their camera on. Cameras on and speaking up are both expected, because the discussion is the lesson.
Who teaches: Every tutor holds a valid UK teaching qualification, and is chosen partly on whether they genuinely believe a child's mathematical ability can grow.

Groups are capped at five and we do not go over it, so places in a given pathway and time slot are limited by arithmetic rather than by sales technique.

Questions parents actually ask

Is this the same as normal tutoring?

No. Normal tutoring usually means an hour a week on whatever came up at school that week. This is a structured twelve week programme with an assessment at each end, a fixed group, a defined pathway, and a set of thinking skills we are deliberately building. The topics matter, but they are the vehicle rather than the destination.

My child is already doing well at maths. Is this relevant?

Often it is the most relevant. Children who find the procedures easy are frequently the ones who have never been asked to explain why a method works, and secondary maths can come as a shock to them. Extension groups exist for precisely this, and the work is genuinely harder rather than simply further ahead.

How do you decide which group my child joins?

By assessment and pathway, not by age alone. We also think about whether a particular mix of children will talk to each other productively, because in a group this small the discussion does real work and one silent group can undo a lot.

Do you set homework?

No homework lists. The weekly email suggests one optional thing to try at home. Children in this programme already do maths for two hours a week with us and five days a week at school. Adding worksheets tends to cost more in goodwill than it gains in fluency.

How can I help without confusing them?

Ask "how did you work that out?" rather than checking whether the answer is right. Praise the strategy rather than the speed. And let your child sit in being stuck for a moment before you step in, because that moment is where the thinking happens. You do not need to remember any of the maths.

What if my child does not want to do it?

Fairly common, and not a reason to rule it out. Most children arrive expecting to be tested and are surprised to find themselves in a conversation instead. If a child is still unhappy after the first couple of weeks, tell us. We would much rather have that conversation early than have a child sitting quietly in a group that does not suit them.

What happens at the end of the twelve weeks?

We assess, we talk it through with you, and we tell you honestly what we think should happen next. Sometimes that is another block on the same pathway, sometimes it is the next pathway up, and sometimes it is that your child no longer needs us. All three are good outcomes.

Ready to start the conversation?

Tell us a little about your child and we will get you booked in. Nothing is committed at that stage, including you.

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