Fees
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Individual Tuition
Your first hour of tuition with me is free. This gives you a no-commitment opportunity to find out what my teaching style is like, and to be reassured that I am the right tutor for you. When you first get in touch I’ll send you further details of how I work and what you can expect from me during my time tutoring you.
My headline price per hour of tuition is £120 and reflects my extensive qualifications and nearly 30 years of experience in teaching chemistry. I do, in addition, provide discounts for a variety of circumstances, so please get in touch to find out more. In particular, students who attend The Cherwell School in Oxford (my local state school where my two children attended) are eligible for the maximum discount, where the hourly rate is £75.
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For GCSE I recommend that lessons are weekly and either 30 or 45 minutes long, depending on when we start working together. For A level I recommend hour-long sessions weekly, though if you are a mature student we can extend that to 90 minutes. A level lessons can also be fortnightly and this works best if they start when the A level courses start - i.e. September of Year 12.
Shared Tuition
If you are interested in having lessons with a friend then the price will be a little more than half the hourly rate each.
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If you are interested in joining one of the Year 13 Exam Technique Courses, then the sessions are £40 each - or £25 if you are one of my individual students.
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Whatever you are looking for...
I have approximately 10500 tutoring hours under my belt from the last 14 years of tutoring full-time, plus 12 years of teaching at St Paul’s Girls’ School before I switched to tutoring. That makes for a lot of very happy clients, so please do get in touch and see what I can do for you!
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Lesson Location And Availability
**Please note : all my tuition slots are full for the 2024-25 academic year, and there is already only very limited availability for after school slots for the 2025-26 academic year**
Please get in touch to go on the waiting list, or to plan for tuition starting from June 2025 onwards, once GCSE and A level exams are at least under way.
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Face-to-face lessons take place at my home in North Oxford. I am just off the Woodstock Road about half way up between the city centre and Wolvercote. Of course, whether you are local or not, online tuition has become a mainstay over the last few years. I upload the same resources that I would have used 'live' into our teaching room, and videos / websites can be shared, so aside from the physical molecular models that students wouldn't be able to handle, it is pretty much the same experience. I end up teaching about half and half face-to-face and online most years.
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I am available to teach at the following times during term time, and by arrangement at some times during school holidays for Year 11 and Year 13:
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8:30am to 6:00pm
8:30am to 6:00pm
8:30am to 6:00pm
8:30am to 6:00pm
1:00pm to 6:00pm
Most of my A level students have their lessons during the school day - in their free periods or over lunch. This works really well for most people and keeps the school working day within the expected time limits, with the tuition slotting in nicely.
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After school times do tend to get taken very quickly - quite often they are are already filled before the start of the academic year with people that were on a waiting list for them from the previous term, or longer. And of course GCSE students can only have lessons after school in the first place. If you know that you can only have lessons after school, do get in touch as soon as possible and I'll do my best to accommodate you.
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