
Primary, Secondary, Home Education and Adult Online Tuition
For your bespoke service, get in touch and let us see how we can help you to achieve your learning goals with online tuition!
For your bespoke service, get in touch and let us see how we can help you to achieve your learning goals with online tuition!
Firstly, let me welcome you to Bespoke Educational Services.
As a teacher with almost twenty years of classroom experience, I am well placed to assist you in fulfilling your potential. I taught, for extensive periods, in all areas of the primary sector before moving into secondary education and middle-management. At each stage, I was placed in key areas of the school, to aid transition, from EYFS all the way up to A-level - particularly looking at entrance to Russell Group universities and Oxbridge.
For me, the importance of teaching is to ensure that the teacher is responsive to the needs of the pupil; you cannot fit square pegs into round holes! Too often, teachers rely on text books or expecting the pupils to adhere to their methods - I believe that this is wrong. An outstanding practitioner will flip this mentality and become the one who reacts and responds to their learners' needs. Online tuition can achieve this much more successfully, building a rapport that allows the teacher to understand each individual for exactly that - an individual.
With so much experience, it is likely that I can work with you to ensure that you get what you need. Perhaps this is homework help or consolidation of your learning; perhaps it is the need to approach texts in a different way; perhaps it is simply to ensure that you are crafting your written work in the best possible way. Whatever you need, please get in touch and I will be happy to help you to achieve your goals, as your online tutor.
My qualifications, all from the University of Cambridge, are in English and Education. Understanding how learners assimilate the English language, from infants to adults, is key to being able to deliver what a pupil needs and how to deliver that for them. This has served me well in both primary and secondary settings - with pupils regularly achieving excellent grades and making tremendous progress.
Additionally, I spent a number of years as Head of English and Head of Drama, in a top independent school, devising and developing extensive programmes of study for KS3 to A-level. This resulted in the growth of the departments, as a whole, and with some of the school's best ever results in these subjects.
As part of my own Continuing Professional Development, I undertook a 120-hour TEFL course, which has provided me with the knowledge and resources to engage with those for whom English is not their first language, aiding their appreciation for, and application of, our highly-nuanced language.
Every learner is different. They have different needs, different styles, different goals. With individual, online tuition, these needs can be met.
Whatever your needs, one-to-one tuition is absolutely the best way to ensure they are met. I look forward to working with you.
- William Jonathan Ross
EYFS-Year 6
From letter recognition and phonics, to numeral formation and subitising, let us help your little learner find the fun in developing these key building blocks to learning.
As learners engage with the more formal National Curriculum, it is vital that they do not lose that sense of wonder and play. Our range of interactive games; tools to consolidate prior learning and methods to introduce new, exciting concepts will help your budding scholar to blossom in their knowledge and understanding of the world around them.
These formative years will really prepare your child for the rigours of "big school", which is coming quicker than any of us would care to admit! Let us help to aid in a smooth transition by ensuring that they are fully ready with their literacy and numeracy skills. A firm bedrock of these core subjects will see them through the next phase of their school days!
There is, often, no greater stress for children than the examinations at the end of their Key Stage. Whether your child is preparing to undertake the 11+, the ISEB tests, Key Stage 1 or 2 SATs or a school's Entrance Examination, we have the experience and resources to help thoroughly prepare your child.
This preparation is, of course, partly academic - giving our pupils the tools they need to tackle each component - but there is also a significant focus on building confidence and reducing stres
Although we pride ourselves on delivering high-quality, bespoke tuition to the individual learner, we have recently received several enquiries for tuition in small groups. If you would like siblings or friends to form a small group, please do let us know and we will do our best to accommodate you!
Home Education really does require that bespoke touch. Over the years, we have worked with those who need a more structured approach; those who thrive with our ability to adapt to their interests; those who are working towards entering (or re-entering) mainstream education and with both new and experienced members of the Elective Home Education community.
For more information on our HE services, including our current programme and pricing, please look at our dedicated Home Education Hub section.
Year 7 to Upper Sixth & Adult Education
English is, arguably, the most important subject. Now assessed in subjects as unexpected as Mathematics and Science, we can help your child to develop a sound understanding of how clear communication is the key to achieving those higher grades.
Covering writing styles, textual analysis techniques and essay-writing techniques, we can offer a bespoke service to give your child the confidence they need to achieve.
From hints and tips for practical performance, to a deeper understanding of dramaturgy and the theories of prescribed practitioners, we can aid you in treading the boards and navigating the concepts taught at GCSE and A-level Drama.
With extensive experience in aiding students with Devising Logs, Working Notebooks and tutoring the key strategies for examination success, we can help you to set the stage for your own achievement.
'Going back to school' can seem very daunting, for an adult. But, by choosing to study for your Functional Skills tests, with us, you can relax! We understand that you have other commitments; that you are studying with a particular objective in mind and that life can get in the way. Working with adults, we are facilitators who offer flexibility and develop our 1:1 course around you, because there is no 'one size fits all' in life.
For those in Home Education, aged 11-16, we offer a comprehensive, skills-based programme that enables our learners to thrive. From learning how to craft letters and blogs, to enhancing their vocabulary; from studying texts and poetry for the purposes of both understanding and developing a love of literature, to formal preparations for GCSE or IGCSE English, we have a wealth of experience and resources to help your child to succeed. Visit our Home Education Hub section, for more details.
EAL/ESL/EAP/ESP/IELTS
Do you need help in conversational English?
Would you like help in writing accurate sentences?
Do you need academic, business or social vocabulary?
Whatever your requirements, we will tailor a bespoke curriculum for you with no examinations and no formal assessments. Let us help you communicate in English with all the confidence that you deserve!
IELTS examinations prepare non-native English speakers to feel confident in reading, writing, speaking and listening. Whether you are undertaking the IELTS Academic examinations or the IELTS General Training, we use our long-standing techniques to ensure you feel confident in the tasks you need to undertake. We ensure that our sessions are tailored to your needs - be they conversational, business or academic English - advising you, at all times, on how to maximise your marks and potential.
We are so excited to announce the launch of our V&R Hub! This page will provide a range of videos and resources that aim to help you "find and remind" yourself about our in-session learning. Whether these videos are tools to help you get started with our recommended resources, or explanations of how to appraoch particular elements of English, drama or mathematics, we're sure that you will find something to help you! If not...just ask and we'll be happy to make a resource for you to use!
We are incredibly excited to announce that one of our talented young people has, recently, finished filming a movie with an Hollywood A-Lister. Whilst we can't say too much right now, keep checking our News page for more information.
We are so proud of one of our fantastic pupils, who we invited to take part in the Young Writers Annual Showcase 2022. At 11 years of age, this was their first foray into creative writing, and we are overjoyed to see that their work has been selected (out of over 5000 entries!) for publication!
Once again, Bespoke Educational Services is delighted to announce that our pupils and students have achieved a 100% pass rate at GCSE and A-level, this year! Not only that, but every child who took their SATs examinations achieved either Expected Standards or Greater Depth - bucking the trend of the current cohort. As one parent put it, "My children have not only made great progress, but also enjoy your relaxed and pleasant style of teaching. I am very appreciative."
We are incredibly excited to announce the launch of our Home Education Hub - a range of sessions that are exclusively for the Elective Home Education community.
As we grow, we hope that we will be able to connect our members; share ideas and resources and become a hive for your EHE needs.
One of our fantastic young people has attended a local Creative Writing Workshop, in their library, with author Nick Perring. Having been asked to write a story that starts sadly and end happily, our budding writer has created a gorgeous narrative arc. It is always so great to see this particular young person achieving their full potential. What a star!
"It's the most wonderful time of the year..." So, as a result, we are closed from December 17th 2022 - January 2nd 2023 (inclusive), so we can spend time with our own families. We are sure you will all enjoy a much-deserved rest, during this rare closure!
Every student has unique needs for support. Tell us more about what you are hoping an online tutor can do for you, and we will start on a plan to help you get what you need.
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