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Barbara
- Hourly rate £100
- Response Time 24h
- Number of students 50+
£100/hr
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- English
- Test prep
- 11 plus
- Thesis
- 7 Plus
- 13 Plus
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About Barbara
- What kind of experience do you have?
I have extensive experience teaching students from Primary School level, through to Secondary School and A-Level. I am able to teach English from all the major examination boards and all my students consistently report achieving at least two grades above their predicted grade in school.
- Do you have an up-to-date DBS (Disclosure & Barring Service, formerly CRB) Certificate?
Yes - I have an Enhanced DBS certificate which I am happy to provide if requested.
- Tell me about some of your current students.
I reached out to Barbara as I was struggling with my English Language A-Level. I performed really poorly in my exams at AS Level and I became pretty desperate to find someone who was able to teach English Language at a high level, in a very professional but patient manner. Barbara stepped and with her support and guidance, I was able to get an A in my English Language A-Level and more importantly - I was accepted onto the University course of my choice: University of Exeter to study English Literature BA. She was amazing - well prepared, flexible with times, and she was always willing to meet me at a place most convenient for me.
- Jason Brown
Barbara is an outstanding tutor. I reached out to her, to help tutoring my 9-year old son. He is a bright spark but he has a lot of energy and he finds it really hard to concentrate for long in class. I reached out to Barbara to tutor him in English and French, and she was fantastic. She brought French language games for him, she gave him interesting English puzzles - as the conventional way of forcing him to sit down and read continuously for hours really doesn't work with him.
I really appreciate how she tailored her classes to suit his level of understanding, and he was able to creatively combine his energy with her French and English grammar games, to get better in class! Barbara really took a genuine interest in guiding and helping him, and she still comes in to tutor him regularly.
- Laura Morton
Barbara is currently teaching me English Language AS Level. I really struggled this winter to get decent grades in class tests in college, and I reached out to her just before Christmas. Have been having classes since this new year and she has been an ongoing supportive tutor - available when I need her, even on a last minute basis. Great tutor for English, and I am enjoying our evening tuition classes.
- Christiana Lucas
I engaged Barbara to support my daughter during her English GCSEs. My daughter particularly struggled with the English Literature side: interpreting poetry and long-form prose, and writing about it in a critical way. She was really struggling getting grades beyond a C but with Barbara's support she achieved an A in English. The support was invaluable and our daughter managed to get into the sixth form college of her choice. As a parent, I constantly worry if I'm spending too much on someone who is not very strong or supportive. I highly recommend Barbara - she was reliable, she always came to our home well prepared and her knowledge and expertise in respect to English Literature is amazing.
- Marta Sozynska
Barbara has been an incredible mentor and tutor; sharing her expertise and encouraging my daughter, who is she preparing to sit her A level English Language examination.
- Tania Talaga
Barbara has been tutoring English to my son for close to two years. My son has a learning disability and I needed someone who was patient and experienced in dealing with children with complex learning needs. My son is now 12 years old and Barbara has been tutoring him for close to two years. I really appreciate how patient and helpful she is, and how she makes her lessons very interactive for someone like him who is very smart - but just needs a bit of extra support at home, and at school. I recommend her if you are seeking someone to assist children and teenagers with educational special needs.
- Fabian Brown
About the lesson
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- English
All languages in which the lesson is available :
English
I am a fully qualified English teacher as well as an an experienced private tutor. My teaching style is fun, accessible and my students walk away with great grades and a renewed passion for the subject!
- Which subject(s) do you teach?
I teach English Language and English Literature at Primary School, Secondary School and Sixth Form College Level, as well as mature student level (for professional or personal self-improvement reasons). In addition, I have a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) which means that I am a fully qualified teacher with experience in teaching in both private and grammar schools in London. I am qualified to teach English on all the major examination boards therefore you are in safe hands working with me!
- Tell me about your qualifications.
I have A* in English Language, English Literature and French at GCSE-level. I have A in English Language, English Literature and French at A-Level. I have a First Class Honours Degree in Politics from the University of Nottingham and a Masters in International Management and Business from King's College London. In addition, I have a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) which means that I am a fully qualified teacher with experience in teaching in both private and grammar schools in London.
- How much do you charge?
I charge £100 per hour.
- Where do you teach?
I am available for one-to-one lessons at students' home.
- When are you available?
I am available between 9:00am and 10:00pm throughout the week.
- Which ages and levels do you teach?
I teach all ages: children at Primary School, teenagers at Secondary School and College, and mature students who are 20+.
- Which qualifications do you prepare your students for?
I prepare students to sit their 11+ and 13+ examinations, as well as their GCSEs, AS Levels and A-Levels examinations. I also help mature students who wish to take IELTS classes for those examinations.
- Describe your arrangements for online tutoring.
I teach online classes via Skype.
Review
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Perfect! Subject : English
Perfect! Barbara has been excellent in tutoring my son in GCSE English Lang and Lit. She is incredibly well organised and knowledgeable.
Subject : EnglishExcellent! Excellent tutor
Barbara is always very well prepared, punctual and enthusiastic. I'm pleased she is working with my son.
Subject : EnglishExcellent! Enthusiastic and organised tutor!
Barbara is focused and knowledgeable. She is also easy to get on with.
Subject : EnglishPerfect! Professional tutor
I was looking for a mature professional tutor in English for my bright son as I wanted to address all the weaknesses before he writes his 11 plus for the GL and CSSE English. Glad I chose barbara for hsi tuitions. I am very impressed about the way barbara is tutoring him.
She made an initial assessment, found his strength and weaknesses and started to address these from week 1.
I can definitely find the improvement. The materials for homework are of high standard which put my son to a good challenge.
Subject : 11+ School Exam Preparation
Outcome : The tutoring is ongoing. I am pleased to continue the sessions for my son with barbara for 11plus English.Perfect! Fantastic and inspiring teacher.
Subject : EnglishPerfect! Knowledgeable and organised
Barbara was a great tutor. She was knowledgeable, organised, focused and gave my daughter some great strategies to help her in her exams.
Subject : English
Outcome : The bookings were short term, for revision and to build confidence prior to the exam.Perfect! Subject : English
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Recommendations
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Barbara is a very talented, well-spoken and professional English tutor who connected immediately with my 10 year old daughter thanks to her warm and adaptable personality. Her lessons were always very well prepared and she was able to come up with lots of different exercises to practice some of the challenging aspects of the 11+ English curriculum.
Always upbeat and smiling, yet very focused and results oriented, she was able to instill confidence in my daughter (for whom English is a second language). I particularly appreciated her prompt feedback post-sessions where she would keep me up to speed with respect to progress.
In conclusion, I only have high praises for Barbara and cannot thank her enough for all she has done for my daughter. I would definitely hire her back if my daughter, or her older 13 year old sister were ever in need of a little extra assistance in the years to come.Barbara is a very talented, well-spoken and professional English tutor who connected immediately with my 10 yo daughter thanks to her warm and adaptable personality. Her lessons were always very well prepared and she was able to come up with lots of different exercises to practice some of the challenging aspects of the 11+ English curriculum.
Always upbeat and smiling, yet very focused and results oriented, she was able to instill confidence in my daughter (for whom English is a second language). I particularly appreciated her prompt feedback post-sessions where she would keep me up to speed with respect to progress.
In conclusion, I only have high praises for Barbara and cannot thank her enough for all she has done for my daughter. I would definitely hire her back if my daughter, or her older 13 yo sister were ever in need of a little extra assistance in the years to come.I have always been sceptical about tuition, but contacting Barbara was the best decision I made during exam season. She replied swiftly, asking for all the relevant information in order for her to help as soon as possible. My only regret was that I wish I had contacted her earlier in the year and had more time to work with her.
The great thing about Barbara was that she was not merely someone to help with essays (which is the area that I struggled the most with) but also helped me with my confidence - which is one of the most essential things when approaching exams.
Barbara also goes beyond what she has to do by supplying extra reading and areas to consider.
I would highly recommend her! She helped me so much, and should you choose her I am confident she will help you too!
Barbara has been tutoring English GCSE to my son for close to three years. My son has a learning disability and I needed someone who was patient and experienced in dealing with children with complex learning needs. My son is now 16 years old and Barbara has been tutoring him for three years. I really appreciate how patient and helpful she is, and how she makes her lessons very interactive for someone like him who is very smart - but just needs a bit of extra support at home, and at school. I highly recommend her if you are seeking someone to tutor teenagers with educational special needs.
Barbara's tuition was first class. My daughter Mercy was so behind in her English - she scored really poorly in her English tests in school, and I was worried about her chances of getting into Henrietta Barnett School - which was really where I wanted her to go. The School is competitive and I was really worried Mercy wouldn't get the grades she needed in English to pass her 11+ entry for the school but Barbara made it happen for her. She came in with so many practice papers, I didn't have to spend anything on revision guides papers, she knew her stuff - and my daughter really turned things around for herself and got top marks in her 11+ exams. Barbara gave her that push and confidence and I can't recommend her highly enough!
Barbara has been tutoring my daughter for her GCSE English. She has been so helpful and is a really enthusiastic and inspiring teacher. She makes each lesson so interesting. I am very grateful to her.
My son Tom really struggled through Primary school with English - it's not his favourite subject and for years we found it hard to get him focused enough to sit still and read, much less practice for his 11+ exams! Tom has always been a top student - particularly in Maths and Science. Yet English was the subject that always let him down. We wanted him to get into Westminster School and we feared his English marks would let him down. Barbara was not only excellent in focusing Tom - she came in prepared, she knew exactly what these exams were testing and what examiners were looking for, but more importantly, she got Tom motivated to do his best. We were incredibly pleased when he got accepted into Westminster School. Thank you Barbara!
Barbara's tuition was first class. My daughter Mercy was so behind in her English - she scored really poorly in her English tests in school, and I was worried about her chances of getting into Henrietta Barnett School - which was really where I wanted her to go. The School is competitive and I was really worried Mercy wouldn't get the grades she needed in English to pass her 11+ entry for the school but Barbara made it happen for her. She came in with so many practice papers, I didn't have to spend anything on revision guides papers, she knew her stuff - and my daughter really turned things around for herself and got top marks in her 11+ exams. Barbara gave her that push and confidence and I can't recommend her highly enough!
Barbara has been tutoring my daughter for her GCSE English. She has been so helpful and is a really enthusiastic and inspiring teacher. She makes each lesson so interesting. I am very grateful to her.
I engaged Barbara to support my daughter during her English GCSEs. My daughter particularly struggled with the English Literature side: interpreting poetry and long-form prose, and writing about it in a critical way. She was really struggling getting grades beyond a C but with Barbara's support she achieved an A in English. The support was invaluable and our daughter managed to get into the sixth form college of her choice. As a parent, I constantly worry if I'm spending too much on someone who is not very strong or supportive. I highly recommend Barbara - she was reliable, she always came to our home well prepared and her knowledge and expertise in respect to English Literature is amazing.
Our seventeen year old daughter wanted some help with her A level English Literature and we discovered Barbara on this site. After one lesson it was very clear that she had a really solid understanding of her subject and was able to communicate very enthusiastically her knowledge. Her comprehensive text notes are invaluable and Agnes very much loos forward to her next lesson.
I reached out to Barbara during the summer to help my daughter prepare for her 11+ entry exams into Bexley Grammar School. She was speedy in her response, very reliable and efficient. Preparing under time pressure (we just had two months to get ready) was really daunting for us. Although I could help my daughter with the numerical reasoning part of the test, my English isn't so strong and Barbara made this process manageable. We just have a week to go before her exam, and my daughter has gone from feeling anxious to confident. I really recommend Barbara - she gave my daughter the confidence boost and targeted support she needed.
Barbara has been an incredible mentor and tutor; sharing her expertise and encouraging my daughter, who is she preparing to sit her A level English Language examination.
Barbara is professional and very personable. I highly recommend Barbara to new students studying English.Barbara Njau
Barbara is an amazing tutor. I feel very blessed that I found her. I needed a tutor last minute.com to help guide and restore my sons cofident for GCSE English exam ...She is very professional tutor with a positive teaching ethics. efficient and puntual .her method of teaching was spot on.she taught at an excellent pace that suited him very well. Above all that she's a really nice person. Will highly recommend her. I have a new Son that has been transformed. Thanks you Barbara.
Barbara has been tutoring English to my son for close to two years. My son has a learning disability and I needed someone who was patient and experienced in dealing with children with complex learning needs. My son is now 12 years old and Barbara has been tutoring him for close to two years. I really appreciate how patient and helpful she is, and how she makes her lessons very interactive for someone like him who is very smart - but just needs a bit of extra support at home, and at school. I recommend her if you are seeking someone to assist children and teenagers with educational special needs.
Barbara is currently teaching me English Language AS Level. I really struggled this winter to get decent grades in class tests in college, and I reached out to her just before Christmas. Have been having classes since this new year and she has been an ongoing supportive tutor - available when I need her, even on a last minute basis. Great tutor for English, and I am enjoying our evening tuition classes.
Over a year ago, I had posted an advert online that I was seeking a French tutor, who could support me as an older, mature student. I would be moving to live in Lyon on a secondment with my job, and although my basic French was strong, I needed ongoing support in the lead-up to my departure to take me to an intermediate level - where I could hold conversations with people, understand conjugations beyond just present and past participles and improve my French speaking skills.
Barbara reached out to me - she has previously lived and studied in Paris and she had a fantastic knowledge of the French language: how to read, speak and also understand the tougher elements of the language like verbs and conjugations at advanced level.
She was able to teach me French in a way that was easy-going, conversational, and she also shared a lot of anecdotes about French culture. I highly recommend her if you are a mature student, interested in sprucing up your French skills. Merci beaucoup, Barbara!Barbara is an outstanding tutor. I reached out to her, to help tutoring my 9-year old son. He is a bright spark but he has a lot of energy and he finds it really hard to concentrate for long in class. I reached out to Barbara to tutor him in English and French, and she was fantastic. She brought French language games for him, she gave him interesting English puzzles - as the conventional way of forcing him to sit down and read continuously for hours really doesn't work with him.
I really appreciate how she tailored her classes to suit his level of understanding, and he was able to creatively combine his energy with her French and English grammar games, to get better in class! Barbara really took a genuine interest in guiding and helping him, and she still comes in to tutor him regularly.Barbara was an amazing tutor and mentor to me. She helped me prepare for my English GCSE summer exams and although I was really stressed, she helped ease me into preparing for my GCSE exams by taking me back to basics.
She was able to clearly explain ways to improve my comprehension, analysis, reading and writing. A really useful skill she taught me was how to skim read long passages, under time pressure, while also absorbing the key elements of the exam question. My reading speed rapidly increased, and she was incredibly patient and assuring - she really helped me raise my confidence before my exam. She was able to condense a lot of content into just a couple of sessions, and before I knew it, we spent several classes going through past papers and focusing in on perfecting my exam technique through practising past exam papers.I reached out to Barbara as I was struggling with my English Language A-Level. I performed really poorly in my exams at AS Level and I became pretty desperate to find someone who was able to teach English Language at a high level, in a very professional but patient manner. Barbara stepped and with her support and guidance, I was able to get an A in my English Language A-Level and more importantly - I was accepted onto the University course of my choice: University of Exeter to study English Literature BA. She was amazing - well prepared, flexible with times, and she was always willing to meet me at a place most convenient for me.
I engaged Barbara to support my daughter during her English GCSEs. My daughter particularly struggled with the English Literature side: interpreting poetry and long-form prose, and writing about it in a critical way. She was really struggling getting grades beyond a C but with Barbara's support she achieved an A in English. The support was invaluable and our daughter managed to get into the sixth form college of her choice. As a parent, I constantly worry if I'm spending too much on someone who is not very strong or supportive. I highly recommend Barbara - she was reliable, she always came to our home well prepared and her knowledge and expertise in respect to English Literature is amazing.
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Hourly rate
- £100
Pack prices
- 5h: £500
- 10h: £1000
online
- £80/h
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