GCSE tutor

Techno

If your friend’s child is into rap and hip hop this app may be worth a try. Free for 30days and then 2.50 ish per month. It was put together initially by a dad who was a singer/songwriter for his lad who couldn’t cope with the normal way of learning. It sets the work to music and is very repetitive so helps it go in. It’s all noise to me but a couple of the kids at school really like it. http://www.studytracks.education/gb/school/

Fireflyaway

I sent my daughter to after school classes. It really helped and I found a small group rather than 121 was beneficial for her as she needed to develop independent problem solving. Sometimes 121 can mean the child is too quick to ask for help when if they spent a couple of minutes thinking they could have found the answer themselves which builds confidence. Depends on the child though.
For 1.5 hour sessions it was £19. That's in Buckinghamshire.

pinkshoes

Thanks for all the posts. It gave her some figures to work with and compare!

She is near Reading, and has now found a science tutor for £30/hour who is actually a teacher and teaches the same syllabus.

Another was asking £45/hour which she now knows was perhaps a bit steep.

sooty&sweep

Hi

I paid £32 per hour last year for an English tutor. My son is dyslexic & she had experience of dyslexia.

A lot depends upon finding someone who can connect & understand the child's difficulties.

Jen

michelle09

I work through a London agency - depending on the client, I get £35 - £45/hour. This agency doesn't tell me what they charge the clients individually. The rates are the same for GCSE although I mostly deal with A level or university students.

hello007007

I have had a few tutors.


From my personal experience I would now only hire a qualified, currently teaching teacher as a tutor for my children.



I once paid a uni student £20 for 1.5 hours to teach the kids science. I later learnt she had been teaching them all wrong and the kids were reporting that their school wasn't happy as they were getting so many questions wrong.



I currently paid £25 for English tuition, £30 for Maths both tutors are current GCSE teachers with knowledge of the new GCSEs. My children say they learn more in one session with their tutor then they do in a week at school.



I found the tutors on Gumtree. A friend of mine paid £30, to a tutor agency, for the contact details of a tutor who could teach her daughter A level Science. My friends daughter had a few sessions and later her mum told me he wasn't even that good and she wasn't happy.


My personal experience with online tuition hasn't been great - most of the tutors are university students and only charge a few pounds less than what a visiting tutor would charge. A few we found have been good but most are awful. My son had a session where the tutor hardly ever looked up as she was on her phone throughout the session. Another one, didnt know the Maths topic herself. A number of time the tutor were late to sessions or forgot about them.

My advice - If the child is in Year 11 - don't waste your time or money on anyone but a qualified, currently working in a school, GCSE teacher, if that makes sense.

I would also say, try again with the school. Maybe if you take the issue to the head of the subject they may offer help. The school needs the students to do well too. Also if the child gets pupil premium (if they have had free school meals in the last 6 years, the school get just under £1k in extra funding for them) you maybe able to use that to pay for extra tution sessions