Melanie

NOW AVAILABLE ⭐ Expert SuperTutor ⭐ Oxford English Graduate, PGCE, QTS, DBS ⭐ Experienced GCSE Examiner, also 11+ 13+ Common Entrance ⭐ former Head of Department at a top UK boarding school ⭐ 6 million-hit website ⭐ IGCSE and IB consultant in South Korea ⭐ Grades raised from 5 to 9 at GCSE, D to A at A-Level ⭐ first choice entry / Scholarship at top Grammar and Public Schools (Wellington, Marlborough, Eton, Brighton College) Oxford and Cambridge ⭐ I teach teachers - and tutors - how to teach ⭐

Current availability: Sunday afternoon, Wednesday 5-5.45, 6.15-7.15 Thursday 5.30-7.30. Good daytime availability Monday to Thursday. Some availability Sunday. Updated 27th September 2023

Tutoring Experience

⭐ 16 years' teaching and tutoring experience in OUTSTANDING Grammar and top Public Schools (11-18 & Oxbridge Entry)
⭐ lately Head of English Department at a top UK Public School
⭐ JQC-awarded Examiner at GCSE, also trained in Examination Validity
⭐ Recent examiner (and tutor) of Common Entrance at 11+ and 13+
⭐ Eton King's Scholarship, Wellington College, Marlborough College, Charterhouse, Brighton College and more
⭐ Oxbridge and Russell Group - building and writing a personal statement, ELAT and interview practice
⭐ Eleven years' online and international tuition experience via Skype, Meet/G-Drive and Zoom, with a massive library of original digital resources that work, upwards of a million words.

Exam Boards/Levels
⭐ GCSE AQA, OCR, Edexcel and WJEC in English Language and Literature
⭐ IGCSE Edexcel, CIE
⭐ A-Level: AQA and OCR
⭐ IB: International Baccalaureate - Language and Literature and Literature at Higher and Standard Level - Written Assignments (coursework), Orals - Global Issues, Paper 1 & Paper 2.

Recent Texts Taught:
1984
Alfred Lord Tennyson
All My Sons
An Ideal Husband
An Inspector Calls
Animal Farm
Antigone
AQA Love and Relationships (GCSE Poetry)
AQA Love Through the Ages (A-Level Poetry)
AQA Power and Conflict (GCSE Poetry)
Angela Carter The B. Chamber
Carol Ann Duffy (World's Wife etc)
Christina Rossetti Poetry
Christmas Carol
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
City of Glass and Persepolis Graphic Novels (for IB).
Death and the King's Horsemen
Death of a Salesman
Doll's House
Dracula
Duchess of Malfi
Edexcel Poetry and Prose Anthology
Edgar Allan Poe
Frankenstein
The Government Inspector, Gogol
Grapes of Wrath
Great Expectations
Great Gatsby
Hamlet
Handmaid's Tale
Hard Times
Hedda Gabler
Imtiaz Dharker
Jane Eyre
Jekyll and Hyde
John Keats
Journey's End
Julius Caesar
July's People
Life of Pi
Macbeth
Merchant's Tale, Chaucer
Midsummer Night's Dream
Miss Julie
Mother Courage and Her Children
Much Ado
OCR Power and Conflict (GCSE Poetry)
Oedipus Rex
Othello
Owen Sheers
Paradise Lost
Philip Larkin, Whitsun Weddings etc
Pride and Prejudice
Purple Hibiscus
Reader
Rebecca
Richard II
Romeo and Juliet
Samson Agonistes
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Simon Armitage
Songs of Ourselves 1 and 2 (CIE IGCSE Poetry)
Stories of Ourselves (CIE)
Streetcar Named Desire
Sylvia Plath (Ariel etc)
Ted Hughes Poetry
Tempest
Top Girls
Twelfth Night
A View from the Bridge
Waiting for Godot
White Devil
Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale, Chaucer
William Blake
Winslow Boy
Woman in Black
⭐If the text you need isn't listed, don't worry: whatever it is, I can teach it!

Successful Experience with:
⭐ Prize-winning and Oxbridge candidates: from double firsts to Economist essay competition prize winners
⭐ School refusers/excluded children
⭐ Home-Schoolers
⭐ Dyslexia
⭐ Dyspraxia
⭐ ADD and ADHD
⭐ Autistic Spectrum and Aspergers
⭐ EAL

Tutoring Approach

Tuition is bespoke.
I will meet your child wherever they are at and guide them where they need to go.
Lessons flex as they develop their skills to make the most of every minute of tuition.
This type of teaching offers undivided attention every step of the way and incredible value for money.

⭐ Get in touch for a FREE initial consultation. ⭐

I have helped thousands of students at all stages: from the fiercely bright, to those lacking in confidence - or any interest in learning whatsoever.
With three of my own, now aged 14-18, I've navigated entrance and scholarship exams, GCSE, A-Level and University applications, as a teacher, tutor, and as a parent, so I know what you're going through.

I also know what works.

⭐ Get in touch for your FREE consultation now