A tutoring centre on Whitchurch Road since 2014: fourteen tutors who are teachers or graduates in the subject they teach, every one named on this website with an enhanced DBS check, prices per hour on the page, a free first session, and a written report to you every half term saying where your child is and what next.
Pick the year and the free session form opens with the right level chosen; we match a tutor and reply within the working day.
How we teach
01
An hour a week with one tutor at one desk, on the things your child actually finds hard: the first forty-five minutes free as an assessment, then a plan to the exam board's specification, past papers and mark schemes, and a report to you every half term. The way most of our students work, for most subjects.
Primary, 11+ and Key Stage 3 £32 an hour; GCSE £38; A-level £42.
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Four students at most at one table with one tutor, grouped by level rather than by age, for an hour a week in GCSE maths, English, the sciences and the 11+: the structure of a class at the price of a group and the attention of a very small one. The timetable page has every group, its level and the spaces left.
£18 an hour, paid by the half term; £16 an hour on a term plan.
03
The same tutors and the same plan over a video call with a shared whiteboard, for students outside Cardiff, students who cannot get to Heath on a school night, and A-level students who would rather work from their desk. One-to-one at £34 an hour; recorded if you want, with the whiteboard saved and sent after each lesson.
£34 an hour one-to-one, any level.
04
Five mornings in the Easter or October half-term holidays, three hours a day in a group of four, on one GCSE or A-level subject: the whole specification revised in order, a timed past paper every day marked overnight, exam technique taught rather than assumed, and a report at the end saying what to do in the last weeks. £480 including the papers and the mock.
£480 for fifteen hours over five mornings, groups of four at most, including papers and a marked mock.
05
For Years 3 to 6: confidence with reading, writing and maths in one-to-one sessions at £32 an hour with tutors who are primary teachers, and for families applying to selective or independent schools, the 11+ course: thirty hours in a group of four across the autumn term covering verbal and non-verbal reasoning, maths and English, with four timed mocks and honest feedback on whether to sit it.
One-to-one £32 an hour, blocks of ten £295.
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One-to-one at £42 an hour with a tutor who has a degree in the subject or teaches it at A-level: maths and further maths, biology, chemistry, physics, psychology, economics, history, English and languages. For the student who needs the A for the offer, the student who got a D in the mocks, and the student who finds the step up from GCSE bigger than anyone said.
£42 an hour one-to-one at the centre, £34 online, blocks of ten £390.
Subjects
| Subject | Years 3 – 6 and 11+ | Years 7 – 9 | GCSE | A-level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maths | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| English language | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| English literature | No– | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Biology | No– | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Chemistry | No– | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Physics | No– | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Welsh second language | Yes | Yes | Yes | No– |
| History | No– | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Eight of the fifteen. Welsh, history, geography, French, Spanish, computer science, psychology, economics and the 11+ reasoning papers are on the subjects page.
How we work
WJEC for most of Cardiff, AQA and Edexcel for the rest, and the tutor teaches to the specification your child is actually sitting, with the past papers and the mark schemes. Generic revision is how students get good at the wrong thing.
A small group here is four at most, at one table, the same four every week, grouped by level not by age. More than that and it is a class; we have classes at school.
Your child sees the same tutor every week in the same slot, and the tutor keeps the notes. Cover is by someone who has read them, and we tell you in advance; a term with four different tutors is not tutoring.
We tell you when the job is done. A Year 9 who has caught up does not need a year of lessons, and we say so. Most students are with us for two terms around an exam; some for years; the choice is yours and never pushed.
The tutors
Fourteen tutors, each named on the tutors page with their subjects, levels and qualifications: teachers who still teach, graduates in their subject, two A-level examiners, a Year 5 teacher for the primary children. Every one has an enhanced DBS check renewed yearly, held on file with the dates, and Eleri interviews and observes each of them before they teach here. You can ask for a tutor by name, or we match; and you can change.
The timetable
Sixteen groups after school Monday to Thursday and on Saturday mornings, each with its subject, level, tutor and the places still open, and the Easter intensive dates below them. One-to-one slots are booked around them; the busiest go in September and January.
The timetable and the spacesParents
Elis was predicted a 4 in maths in November. Owain did the free session, told us exactly which topics were losing the marks, and Elis went every Thursday until May. He got a 7. The half-term reports were the thing: I knew what was happening without nagging.
Four of them round a table on a Tuesday with Sam, £18 an hour, and she went from hating chemistry to picking it for A-level. The group was the right call; she would not have asked a tutor on her own.
I needed an A for my offer and had a C in the mock. Online with Sam on Wednesday nights, the whiteboard saved after every lesson so I could go back through it, and past paper questions marked by Friday. Got the A, got the place.
The centre
Eight teaching rooms over two floors, a quiet study room, a waiting area with coffee for parents, and glass panels in every door. Two minutes from the Heath hospital roundabout, buses outside, free parking on the side streets after four.
One-to-one £32 an hour for primary, 11+ and Key Stage 3, £38 for GCSE, £42 for A-level; £34 online; £18 in a group of four at most. Blocks of ten and term plans are cheaper (a GCSE hour comes down to £33 on a term plan). Tuition is VAT-exempt and nothing is added. The first 45-minute session is free.
Every tutor has an enhanced DBS check, renewed every year, and is a qualified teacher or a graduate in the subject they teach. They are named on the tutors page with their subjects, levels and qualifications; Eleri interviews and observes every one before they teach here, and the safeguarding policy is on the wall.
A written report every half term with what was covered, where the gaps are and the grade we think your child is at, plus a timed mock when it is useful. You can ring the tutor between lessons and sit in on any lesson. Last summer 92% of our GCSE students reached their target grade or better and the average gain from first assessment to exam was 1.8 grades.
It depends on the child, and the free first session is where we work it out. One-to-one for a student with specific gaps or a specific deadline; a group of four for a student who does well with peers and needs steady work across a subject; a mix is common. We will say which we think, and we have no reason to push the dearer one.
The timetable page lists every weekly group and its spaces; one-to-one slots are Monday to Thursday after school and Saturday mornings, with the busiest slots (5pm and 6pm) going first in September and January. Online adds evening slots to 8:30. Book the free first session and we will say what is open.
Tell the office and we rematch, no awkwardness. It happens a few times a year and it is nearly always the right thing to do; the notes go to the new tutor and nothing is lost.
Tell us the year group and the subject, and we match a tutor and offer a slot for a free first session at the centre or online: an assessment, a chat with you both, and an honest view of what would help. We reply within the working day. Or ring the office.
