✔︎ Cambridge, English, First Class Dissertation ✔︎ High-Net-Worth Family Homeschool Teacher ✔︎ 11 years Tutoring and Teaching ✔︎ Published Writer ✔︎ VR & NVR Question writer @ Atom Learning ✔︎ Teaching 9 GCSE subjects ✔︎ 11+, 13+ ✔︎ Personal Statement Consultant

I have ten years of experience working as a private tutor. Results over the last three years have been 96% A*-C (9-4), with 65% of students achieving a grade above the grade they set out as their initial target. In 2026, 100% of students passed, 86% hit their target grade, and 65% achieved level 9s across six different subjects.

I also have four years of classroom teaching experience, having taught English Literature for KS4 and KS5 in the Cambridge School of Bucharest, Romania for two years, with 100% A*-C at GCSE and A level in 2019.

Following this, I worked as a homeschool governor with Gabbitas Education Agency for a high-net-worth client for two years, teaching nine GCSE subjects full-time (English Literature, English Language, Maths, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, History, French and Spanish; 25 hours teaching per week) and managing a small team of other tutors to provide a full education for a pair of siblings. Exam results were 85% A*-C (9-4) and 30% A*-A (9-7).

In addition to my knowledge of the AQA, Edexcel and OCR GCSE, CIE and Edexcel IGCSE, and various A level English syllabuses, I also know the syllabuses for Maths, Biology, Chemistry and Physics for Cambridge IGCSE and Edexcel International GCSE back-to-front, and teach them frequently, with excellent results. I can speak five additional languages (French, Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Polish), and have taught Spanish and French with top results at IGCSE.

In my second year at CSB I mentored KS5 students on personal statement writing, in particular for Oxbridge applications; I have since continued this work freelance. Students of mine have successfully earned places at Oxford, King's, Durham, Bristol, SOAS, UChicago and Imperial in Engineering, Architecture, Biology, History, Politics and others.

My students whom I have tutored for entrance exams have successfully gotten in to Harrow, Winchester, St Paul’s, Westminster, Harris Westminster, King's College School, and Sevenoaks, among others.

I have also written English, VR and NVR questions for the 11+ and 13+ learning platform Atom Learning, which are still in use to this day.

Finally, I am a published writer, with published work in several American literary journals; I can therefore bring a knowledge of the subject from the “inside-out”, as it were. I therefore also have a good knowledge of legitimate literary magazines that publish and run competitions for young writers, in fiction and non-fiction, across the US, UK, Irish and Australian literary scenes. I am keen to promote young writers and help them take the first steps to launch their careers!

I focus on building up the foundations of a subject, and looking for new or unusual ways of explaining the basic concepts, to see if this can get things to 'click'.

My experience teaching a broad range of subjects allows me to explain English in terms that a more mathematically-inclined student could find easier to grasp, and vice-versa.

With strong foundations established, I then push students to develop their skills, with tailor-made exercises, tracked specific targets, and highly-detailed written feedback to maximise improvement.

Finally, by pushing students to begin revision early and gradually, as well as explaining how the skills covered in lessons translate directly to exam mark scheme requirements, my students enter exam term with less stress and more control.

I write short lesson reports after sessions upon request. This helps everyone to keep on the same page with current targets and long term progress.

Please get in touch with your specific goals; I would be excited to discuss your needs and agree on an approach that works for you.