Tuition Fees
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 provide discounts for a variety of circumstances, and always discount for students who attend state schools, so please get in touch to find out more. In particular, I want to support my local school as much as possible (where both of my own children attended), so students who attend The Cherwell School in Oxford are eligible for a significant discount.
Bespoke Mini-Groups
If you are interested in having lessons with a friend or two, then the hourly rate will be divided between you, plus an additional £5 per hour. For example, two students together would be charged £65 each and three would be charged £45 each. Please note that students need to be at the same school, so that we can match your topic order, and of course students also need to be free to have lessons at the same time.
Year 13 Exam Technique Small Groups
If you are interested in joining the Year 13 Exam Technique Course, then the sessions are £40 each - or £25 if you are also one of my individual students.
Whatever you are looking for...
I have approximately 12000 teaching hours under my belt from the last 16 years of tutoring full-time, plus 12 years of teaching at
St Paul’s Girls’ School before switching into private tuition. That makes for a lot of very happy clients, so please do get in touch and see what I can do for you!
Lesson Location, Length And My Availability
**Please note : I am full for after school slots for the 2026-27 academic year, but do still have a little availability for tuition during the school day.
There are also 3 slots remaining in the Year 13 Exam Technique Group as of 4/6/26**
Do get in touch to explore options, or to go onto my waiting list for 2026-27, or to plan for tuition a little further down the line.
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, we can work online. 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 75% online most years now, with even Oxford students preferring to work from their own homes.
I am available to teach between 8:30am and 6pm on weekdays during term time, and by arrangement at some times during school holidays for Year 11 and Year 13
For A level I recommend hour-long sessions weekly, though if you are a mature student we can extend that to 90 minutes with a short break at some point. Lessons can also be more frequent - and in a group this can be a good idea, for example 2 x 45 minutes. Lessons can also be fortnightly and this works best if we start working together in September / October of Year 12 - i.e at the start of the course.
For GCSE, with so many subjects on the go, time efficiency is really key here! I recommend that lessons are weekly and 30 minutes long as I find that a 'short sharp' lesson gets a whole lot done - not quite as much as hour, but for sure much more than any 30 minute period within an hour. I guess there is an extra level of focus as we all know the lesson will be over in a flash!
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.
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.