Josie

Josie is very warm and likeable person, my son is always finishing the lesson feeling better and more knowledgeable and is going to school with more confidence - he is keen to study just a little bit more and that's because Josie is very patient and understanding.

Josie has been very supportive to my daughter who is currently in Year 11, doing her GCSEs. Josie has been tutoring my daughter for English GCSEs; my daughter from the very beginning started feeling more confident and reassured. Josie is competent and she has a very calm and engaging approach. She has demonstred high organisational skills and flexibility. My daughter has benefited from lessons with Josie also in Classical Civilisations, improving her grades and her confidence. I would definately recommend Josie!

Josie is tutoring my non-native English speaker daughter (second grade), who is struggling with writing in English (phonetics). I highly recommend Josie. She is an excellent teacher, very patient and approachable and with her my daughter opened up very quickly. My daughter really enjoys her classes and looks forward to them. Thanks to Josie my daughter has already made remarkable progress and her confidence in English has increased. We are happy to have found such a great teacher.

Josie is excellent, my 3 children have improved so much since she has been their tutor in year 11. My 2 daughters were not confident in maths and she has given them confidence. She is friendly and clear and importantly they can access her teaching method. I am confident that my son will get a higher grade than predicted now too. Very happy!

Josie has proved a wonderful find and I can't recommend her highly enough.

She has tutored my 16 year old daughter on-line through from mid-way through Year 10 right up to GCSEs, initially for Maths only and latterly for some targeted intervention on specific parts of the English CGSE curriculum. She has proved very effective, and has also been warm, engaging and kind, which has really helped the learning process. We have actually recommended her to one of my daughter's friends and I know she and her family have also been very happy.

My daughter was in Set 4 for Maths and was running at a GCSE prediction of 5/6. Since then she has steadily gained in confidence and ability, with Josie's support, and started performing really well in both her homework and assessments. She has ended up easily top of her set and on many tests was doing as well as Sets 1 and 2. We are of course waiting for results (fingers crossed), but her final prediction from the school was a Grade 8 and we hope that she should at least obtain a 7. She did I think have some innate mathematical ability, but Josie has given her the input and confidence to really unlock this to the stage where she has started enjoying the subject much more (although not to the point of wanting to do A Level, which at one point the school was suggesting!!).

On English Josie gave some targeted support for the Shakespeare text and on Poetry. On the latter my daughter had a real blank spot to the point where she was giving good/reasonable responses in mocks and assessments on all other areas of English but was leaving Poetry questions completely blank. A few weeks before the exams Josie and I both did some targeted work with her on Poetry, with me running through the basics (Let's just at least read and have a chat about them!) and Josie doing the much more in-depth and focused work. This proved really effective and my daughter ended up being very happy with how this part of the paper went, commenting that by the end she actually quite enjoyed the Poetry piece and that 'Josie had made them really interesting'. Again I think Josie was able to build her confidence and break down some initial barriers.

We have been very happy indeed with Josie's support and it has also been very helpful to have someone who can tutor in both Maths and English.