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Catherine has transformed my daughter’s appreciation of English Literature for A level. She is now hoping for an A* (fingers crossed!), which is down to Catherine. She has also developed a real love for the subject, which again is due to Catherine’s own enthusiasm and expert guidance. I couldn’t recommend Catherine more highly.

Catherine has been an excellent tutor for my 17 year old son who is preparing for Alevels. She has really engaged him with the subject, so much so that he has changed his degree choice . She has worked with him on the structuring of essays and analysis of texts. He has ADHD and she has been great at adapting her tutor methods to accommodate this. His results have gone from C’s and D’s in his mocks to A ‘s in recent work. I would thoroughly recommend Catherine to any student.

Catherine has been great, she was careful from the beginning to assess the personal strengths and weaknesses of my daughter and has since applied a flexible approach to teaching, trying different methods to find what works. My daughter was predicted As at A'level, but achieved Cs and we came to Catherine for help with re-takes. While understanding her subject fairly well, my daughter was falling down on confidence, discipline/application, and planning. These aspects have improved considerably over the last year since working with Catherine who has been consistently patient and kind but also provided structure, support, and intelligent feedback. She understands my daughter's needs and I would not hesitate to recommend her.

My son started lessons with Catherine 7 months ago with the aim of improving exam techniques for his A/L English Literature. He finds her lessons very enjoyable and her help invaluable. My son once struggled with the analysis of authorial methods, but he is now much more comfortable with them due to her advice on exam technique. She has provided my son with many exam questions to test himself, which he has used to improve his test scores. Catherine has been very helpful to my son by pointing out where he has lost marks on practice questions. She is also very knowledgeable about the exam mark schemes.

Overall, I am very happy with Catherine's high quality lessons.

Outstanding, has completely engaged with my son who is now asking for more books to read!

Brilliant tutor! Exceptional tutoring skills, perfect explanations. Has helped improve grades drastically, definitely recommend!

Catherine is a highly qualified and experienced tutor who puts in alot of thought into how she plans and presents her lessons. Her lessons are very engaging and extremely useful as she provides tips and pointers in regards analysing and presentimg information in relation to my daughters English writing. She is patient, flexible and always encourages my daughter to do her best. My daugher throughly enjoys working with Catherine and has beome more confident in her English A-Level in a short space of time. I would highly recommend Catherine.

Catherine’s tutoring approach is first class. With her professional knowledge and experience in teaching the subject, she is able to identify weaknesses of individual student quickly and to provide precise and effective guidance and encouragement for helping student to improve. Not only that she has a sharp focus on my daughter’s academic needs, Catherine also understands parents’ perspective. I am very grateful for her professional attitude and for keeping us informed of the progress at the appropriate stages. My daughter enjoys Catherine’s tutorials very much and she is gaining insight and confidence in the subject within a short period of time. Despite Catherine’s busy schedule, she is always prepared to give support to my daughter. A great professional. I would highly recommend Catherine.

Olivia is really enjoying the lessons with you and finding your advice and tips very helpful. Many thanks.
Sandra and John Borns

Experience invaluable in working to make the difference from an A grade to an A* and provides that additional insight when analysing submitted works.

Catherine is very knowledgable and has a clear understanding about my daughter’s weaknesses and comes up with a solution quickly on how to tackle it. I have seen improvements in my daughter’s work in 3 weeks.

Catherine was an excellent tutor of English. My son was happy about the lessons but it wasn't happened with different English teacher which he had before. I believe feedback from your child is very important.
Was highly competent and knowledgeable about all aspects of GSCE exam and very organised.
I think her teaching style was very effective as she helped my son re-take English GSCE exam in very short time (3 months).
Highly recommend.
Thank you :)

Catherine is not only incredibly experienced but she is sensitive to the individual needs of her student. Couldn't have found a more caring tutor for my son.

Hi Catherine - I think this feedback is coming directly to you. I'm very pleased indeed with the way you have quickly established rapport with Ben and he is genuinely enthusiastic and wants to do well - which he wasn't before he met you! I think that expressing himself through writing doesn't come easily to him and so it will take time. You've already helped him a lot though through breaking down what he needs to do and how to work on things. Thank you
Diane