Online across the UK, in person in Longworth, Oxfordshire.

If your secondary school-aged son or daughter is looking for support or enrichment in English, or is going into Year 10/11 or Year 13 knowing that something needs to shift, you are in the right place.

I am Helen. I spent over twenty-five years teaching English in secondary schools, as a classroom teacher, Head of Department, Form Tutor and Pastoral Lead. Now I teach one-to-one and in small groups, online and from my workspace in OX13.

I know where students get stuck, because I have taught hundreds of them through it. From structuring an answer that builds a clear argument to writing about a poem without simply listing the techniques to finding something to say about a text they have read four times and stopped seeing. I also know what examiners are looking for.

But the reason I do this is simpler than exam results. When a student genuinely understands a text and when they have a view about it worth defending, the grades tend to follow as a consequence.

Getting started is easy. We talk for fifteen minutes, free and with no obligation. If we go ahead, your child has the same slot every week and you can pay week by week, before each lesson, or book a full half term, whichever suits you. There is no joining fee and no minimum number of sessions.