English
English tuition, online and one to one.
English is marked on what a student can do with a text rather than on what they can remember about it. Two children can have read the same book equally carefully and be a long way apart on how they build an argument about it.
Tell us what your child is working on and we will find them an English tutor. Every tutor holds an enhanced DBS check, has been interviewed by our school staffing team, and teaches in a recorded session in your browser.
- Enhanced DBS checked
- Interviewed by our school staffing team
- Every session recorded
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Who teaches English here
Open a profile to read about them in their own words, see every clearance we hold for them, and see what an hour with them costs.
See English tutors in the full tutor directory, or create an account and tell us what your child is working on and we will go and find them a tutor.
The syllabus, in plain English
What English covers
Depth and emphasis differ between levels and between exam boards, and your child's school decides both. If you are not sure which part is going wrong, this is the shortlist to read down before you tell us.
Reading and comprehension
Reading fluently, and then answering questions about a text using it as evidence rather than from memory.
Writing
Sentences that hold together, paragraphs that do a job, and writing for different purposes.
Spelling, punctuation and grammar
The mechanics, which are tested separately in England at the end of Year 6 and are the part that is easiest to practise little and often.
Speaking and listening
Explaining an idea out loud clearly enough that somebody else can follow it.
By level
English tutors, level by level
These are the levels tutors here currently teach English at. Each one has its own page.
Wherever you are in the United Kingdom
Every session runs online, in our own video room in your browser. There is nothing to download and nothing to install, nobody comes to your house, and nobody has to be driven anywhere on a school night. It does not matter where in the United Kingdom you live: the tutors on this page are the tutors available to you.
Tutor and child work on the same whiteboard, which updates for both of them as they write, and whatever is on it at the end is saved to the session. The lesson is recorded, and you can watch your own child’s sessions back from your account.
An English tutor is still an adult alone with your child.
Tuition means somebody your family has never met spending an hour a week with your child, unsupervised. That is the problem this platform was built around, and it is why the vetting is not a page in the small print.
Read our full safeguarding policyEnhanced DBS, every tutor
Every tutor on the platform holds an enhanced DBS check. We do not make exceptions and we do not allow grace periods.
Interviewed before they teach
Our school staffing team interviews every tutor before they take a single session. They are the same people who vet and place staff in UK schools.
Every session recorded
Sessions are recorded and retained for safeguarding review, so there is always a record of what happened in a lesson. You can watch your own child's sessions back from your account. The tutor cannot.
Continuously monitored
Vetting is not a one-off. If a tutor's clearance lapses they come off the platform automatically, and they cannot teach again until it is back in place and verified by us.
Nothing happens off the platform
Every session runs in our own video room in the browser, and personal contact details are never exchanged between a tutor and a family.
Ready to find an English tutor?
Create a free account, tell us what your child needs, and we will take it from there. Nothing is charged when you book.