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Our child has hugely benefitted from Colin's patient and engaging tutoring. He has built her confidence and helped her understand each element of the curriculum. I highly recommend Colin's tutoring.

My daughter's tutoring with Colin for her GCSE maths has been a very positive experience. She's really enjoying the sessions. Colin is patient and explains concepts clearly. He gives her personalised homework and feedback after each lesson to help her work on her weak areas. She's finding these lessons very helpful and highly recommends Colin as a tutor.

We have only been working with Colin for a few weeks but he is a very suitable tutor for my son. His tutorials are always on time, are relevant and he makes maths interesting. He is a very experienced tutor and that comes through in his delivery of lessons and homework. Communication is strong and clear and he's a really lovely person.

Colin makes learning fun!

Colin is currently tutoring our son for a 13+ Entrance Exam and we are so pleased & appreciative of the work Colin has put into preparing him.

Colin’s approach is well structured, very encouraging & methodical & this works to bring out the best in our son. By the second session our son was instantly more confident in his own ability & he’s come on leaps and bounds.

We have recommended Colin since on several occasions & would highly recommend him, not only for tutoring for entrance exams, but also as an exceptional maths tutor.

Colin tutored our children for 11+ and for increasing confidence in Maths. He's been excellent. I've been particularly impressed with the way he makes the sessions with the children fun, so there's never any protest about having tuition. My son's confidence in Maths has increased enormously. Both children were well-prepared for the 11+. Highly recommended.

My son has had 3 lessons so far with Colin and has another 7 to go and we couldn't be happier. We have been made to feel very welcome in Colin's home by all of his family, the atmosphere is very relaxed and Colin's personality and style of teaching is encouraging and engaging - even I am learning through listening in! As Colin teaches from home, you have the choice to sit in the room, sit next door in a very lovely conservatory where you can still hear what is being taught or you can choose to leave your child. I sit in, purely because I like to be able to chat to my son afterwards about what he has been doing so I can keep up with him! There are lots more positives, which I have bullet pointed below to avoid this review becoming too wordy! We would highly recommend Colin and would use him again in the future if the need arose.

Other positives:
- Clear and prompt communications, weekly feedback and lesson plans
- Thorough and weekly analysis of papers resulting in clear direction of key areas for learning
- Uses a mixture of computer and paper based exercises to explain concepts simply and in a fun way
- Gives you access to an online learning database with lessons and games to backup learning
- Calm, kind, positive and encouraging demeanour which boosts my son's confidence
- Easy to talk to for both pupil and parent
- Explains and demonstrates areas of learning in simple yet effective ways
- Sessions are well structured
- Good time keeping - even though he is very busy!
- And last but most importantly for me, my son is really enjoying his lessons, is keen to do more work at home for Colin and looks forward to the following week!

Many thanks for all you are doing Colin,
Claire & Ian Chapman

I can not praise Colin enough, he has a calm and reassuring manner and has help my 10 year old son significantly with his maths. I can only speak for Colins maths tutoring as this is the only subject we asked him to help us with. I would highly recommend Colin.

In the first couple of sessions that Colin has had with my son we have
noticed a significant improvement in his understanding of the topics
covered that he was not getting from his in-school tuition. We are delighted
with Colin's input so far and his positive attitude, which has had a knock-on
effect with my son's confidence in the subject. We look forward to his continued
guidance & would have no hesitation in recommending him to others.