🔎National Fees, Termly Structure & FAQ

📊 Baseline Assessment

£35 Flat Fee

(£50 Oxbridge / STEP)

* Mandatory 50-minute 1-to-1 diagnostic prior to 1-1 support commencing
* Evaluates foundational gaps.
* Pinpoints exam board technique flaws.
* Delivers a written statistical roadmap straight to parents.

🚀 Advanced Track

From £70/hr

(Flexible: Day or Evening)

* Undergraduate & Open University Modules:‍ ‍£70/hr. Support for transition mathematics, calculus, real analysis, and linear algebra.

* Oxbridge Track (STEP / MAT / TMUA Masterclasses):‍ ‍££90/hr. Advanced problem-solving and interview coaching

🏫 1-to-1 (4-8:30pm)

From £44/hr

(Mon–Thu After School)

* Key Stage 3 / 11+: £44/hr.
* GCSE: £50/hr.
* A-Level / Further Maths: £70/hr.
* ⚠️ Weekend Premium: Saturday/Sunday 1-to-1 individual slots are subject to a peak rate (GCSE £80/hr | A-Level £105/hr).

☀️ Off-Peak (10am-3pm)

From £40/hr

(Any weekday)

* 6th Form Free Periods: £50/hr. Optimise school study blocks via online or home-visits.
* Home-School Blocks:

GCSE £45/hr

KS3 or below: £40/hr

(For home-school blocks I advise a 2-hour minimum curriculum cycle, but will work around your needs and demands)

🏖️ Intensive Revision Days

From £120/Day

(Exclusive Holiday and Brea Bootcamps)

* Focused small-group bootcamps run during high-anxiety half-terms, Christmas, and Easter breaks.
* GCSE Higher Booster (4 hrs): £120.
* A-Level Pure Masterclass (5 hrs): £175.
* Capped at 5 to 6 local students max at your Yarm space or online.
* Deployment: Dates are locked and spaces unlocked exclusively to the expression of interest register 4 weeks prior to each school break.

👥 Small-Group Masterclasses

Exact Group Fees

(Per Student / Hour)

* Capped at a strict maximum per group to ensure personal delivery.
* Grouped by identical exam boards/tiers.
* Key Stage 3 / 11+: £13.
* GCSE Higher Tier: £15/hr
* A-Level / Further Maths: £20/hr
* Available peak evenings & weekends.

👥 How to Join a Cohort

The Onboarding Cycle

Whilst places are capped, additional sessions are provided to cater for addition need.

1. Submit Interest: Fill out the intake form on my contact and booking form with year, mock grade, and exam board.
2. Cohort Matching: I align peers from local tracks to sync curriculum timelines.
3. Baseline & Launch: Once enough peers match, I will lock in the additional slots

💻 Online Exam Masterclasses

£100 Pass Fee

(4-Week Dynamic Courses)

* Highly leveraged 30-student max interactive online webinars.
* Structure: 4 weekly, high-energy 90-minute modules focusing on advanced algebraic, calculus, or exam-technique sprints.
* Run dynamically throughout the academic year timed to key mock and final exam cycles.
* Deployment: Schedule announced to waitlist once critical mass is met..

Structured, National, Elite Mathematical Support

Your child deserves the best mathematics tutor available. Tuition is a direct investment in measurable academic outcomes. My fee structure reflects an elite tier of curriculum command, mathematical fluency, examination expertise, and a significant history of securing top grades.

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Option 1: Termly Blocks | Protected by my Committed Agreement

To protect slot continuity and maintain learning momentum, the most secure option is whereby ongoing individual and group tuition is billed strictly in advance. This is aligned seamlessly to your child’s 6- to 8-week school half-term calendar. This provides access to additional support, such as any-time help, whereby your child can safely contact me for support with their ongoing leaning. This ensures my expertise is available beyond just the 1-hour, weekly tutorial.

Guarantee:

  • Any child registered to a termly block will have their price fixed for the ensure duration of tuition, even if my prices rise for any new intake

  • Their slot will be protected for the duration of tuition

  • You still have the right to change your mind, at no cost, through my committed guarantee

    🤝 My Committed Guarantee to Your Child's Progress: I have absolute confidence in the quality of my tuition. However, if due to unforeseen circumstances your child’s needs shift mid-term, you are never locked in. I operate a transparent 1-week notice policy. Simply provide 7 days' written notice, and I will immediately cancel the remainder of the block and issue a full, pro-rata refund for all outstanding sessions.

Option 2: Flexible Payment | Building Trust

However, I fully appreciate the need to build trust with parents and their child. Committing to a tutor is a big step financially. It is absolutely right that you should want to take the time to find the right person for your child. Furthermore, I do not want to disadvantage families who need to space out payments.

If preferable, you can pay for sessions on a weekly basis, with payment for that week securing my ongoing any-time help for that week

Payment Methods & Settlement:

  • New Students: All tuition commences with a no-obligation, standalone 50-minute 1-to-1 Baseline Assessment. This is a supportive, mathematical dialogue with your child, at a venue of your choice. It is then YOUR choice whether you wish to commence a block of tuition or not. This is currently priced at £35 for local pupils and families

  • Termly Block Billing: Invoices for the upcoming full half-term block are issued 14 days prior to the start of term OR at point of agreement. These must be settled in full via Direct Bank Transfer (BACS) or secure online payment links (Stripe / Card Payment). Pay-as-you-go or cash terms are strictly not accepted for this model.

  • Flexible Payment: Invoices are issued 7 days in advance OR at point of agreement. These must be settled in full via Direct Bank Transfer (BACS) or secure online payment links (Stripe / Card Payment).

  • Mid-Term Enrolment: If you are joining my practice partway through a school term, you do not need to wait. Your first invoice will simply be pro-rated to cover the remaining weeks left of that current half-term block and will be issued at the point of agreement OR 7 days in advance IF you are adopting the flexible payment model.

🤝 My Committed Guarantee to Your Child's Progress: I have absolute confidence in the quality of my tuition. However, if due to unforeseen circumstances your child’s needs shift mid-term, you are never locked in. I operate a transparent 1-week notice policy. Simply provide 7 days' written notice, and I will immediately cancel the remainder of the block and issue a full, pro-rata refund for all outstanding sessions.

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Mathematics worksheet showing fractional consolidation and a right triangle area quadratic: 4/(x−3) − 2x/(x²−9), with base (x+2) cm, height (2x−3) cm, and equation 2x²+x−36=0.
Mathematics worksheet showing fractional consolidation and a right triangle area quadratic: 4/(x−3) − 2x/(x²−9), with base (x+2) cm, height (2x−3) cm, and equation 2x²+x−36=0.

We do not guess; we measure. Before a student is accepted into the practice, they undergo a supportive yet academic dialogue to map their exact cognitive limits. This will help maximise the support they deserve.

The Anatomy of an Elite Diagnostic Assessment

Educational graphic showing a quadratic area equation with an algebraic error: 2x² + x − 6 = 0 instead of 2x² + x − 36 = 0.
Educational graphic showing a quadratic area equation with an algebraic error: 2x² + x − 6 = 0 instead of 2x² + x − 36 = 0.

🛠️ 1. The Format: What Actually Happens

The initial 50-minute Academic Consultation is not a silent, stressful school exam. It is a live, dynamic, supportive mathematical dialogue between the director and your child. We write our custom-engineered question strings on the board or on paper and work through them collaboratively.

By observing your child's real-time problem-solving approach, we evaluate what a standard exam score can never show: their mathematical communication, their ability to absorb complex structural hints, and their first-principles resilience when a familiar formula breaks down.

📊 2. The Result: What You Receive

Immediately following the session, the clinical data gathered is compiled into a physical Baseline Diagnostic Report. This report maps your child’s absolute performance across three core mathematical pillars:

  • Algebraic Manipulation Fluency: Their speed and precision when expanding, re-arranging, and handling multi-step fractional expressions under pressure.

  • Rigorous Logic & Notation: Their adherence to formal examiner marking criteria and step-by-step mathematical proof structures.

  • Problem-Solving Endurance: Their structural resilience when facing highly abstract, non-routine higher grade questions.

This diagnostic roadmap isolates their exact academic bottlenecks, showing you precisely what is required to safely transition them from their current baseline up to a secure top grade.

🚀 3. How the Feedback is Used to Build the Track

We do not provide generic homework help. The findings from this baseline report are used to custom-build your child’s dedicated tracking matrix. If a scheduling and exam board profile match exists, your child is placed into an elite 1-to-1 Track or an aligned Small-Group Exam Cohort (capped strictly at 4 students).

Every structural block we build is fully protected by our 1-Week Notice Mutual Guarantee, keeping your family's commitment entirely transparent and risk-free from day one.

Example Document: Year 10 Grade 8/9 Accelerator Booklet

Oxford Mathematics Education Yarm baseline academic consultation and diagnostic assessment details, including Year 10 Grade 8/9 Accelerator track and 50-minute duration.
Heading reading “Stage 1: Mechanical Fluency & Algebraic Rigour (Suggested Time: 15 Mins)”
Algebra worksheet question asking to expand and simplify (2x − 3y)² − 3(x² − 4xy + 2y²).
Algebra worksheet question asking to simplify 4 divided by x minus 3 minus 2x divided by x squared minus 9 into a single fraction.
Heading reading “Stage 2: Logical Structuring & Transposition Proofs (Suggested Time: 20 Mins).”
Worksheet showing Question 3 on solving simultaneous equations x/2 + y/3 = 4 and 3x − 2y = 8, and Question 4 on rearranging W = (3t + 4)/(t − 2) to make t the subject.
Geometry question describing a right triangle with base x + 2 cm, height 2x − 3 cm, area 15 cm², and quadratic equation 2x² + x − 36 = 0.
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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Having spent 9 years as a Deputy Headteacher and Head of Faculty in Grammar Schools, I do not simply tutor mathematical topics—I understand the exact structural mechanics behind exam board grading metrics (Edexcel, AQA, OCR). This insider curriculum expertise allows me to quickly diagnose student blindspots, build exam pacing, and instil the high-level problem-solving approaches needed to confidently unlock Grade 9 and A* trajectories.

  • Just as a high-level medical consultant or structural engineer never prescribes a solution without a deep diagnostic evaluation, an elite educational track requires an absolute understanding of a student’s mathematical baseline.

    Our mandatory 50-minute standalone session is a highly rigorous, non-linear evaluation designed to uncover the exact cognitive, algebraic, and notation gaps holding your child back from top-tier grades. Capable students rarely fail because they lack ability; they fail because they harbor hidden structural vulnerabilities or lose procedural clarity under timed pressure.

    Following this consultation, you will receive a comprehensive Baseline Diagnostic Report mapping your child's exact mathematical profile against strict exam board specification metrics (AQA/Edexcel/OCR). This allows us to construct a bulletproof, precision-targeted curriculum road map for their half-term block, ensuring that every subsequent hour delivers maximum grade-advancement yield.

  • I have absolute confidence in the quality of my tuition and my ability to unlock your child’s mathematical potential. However, I understand that unforeseen personal or academic circumstances can happen.

    Our Mutual Guarantee: If at any point during a half-term block you feel your child’s needs have shifted and you wish to stop tuition, you are never trapped. I operate a transparent 1-week notice policy. Simply provide 7 days' written notice, and I will instantly cancel the remainder of the block and issue a full, no-quibble pro-rata refund for all outstanding sessions.

  • Securing top grades in mathematics requires absolute consistency and momentum. A block-booking structure (aligned to the 6 to 8-week school half-term) ensures a dedicated commitment to a structured learning roadmap. It allows us the necessary time to accurately diagnose gaps, execute targeted interventions, and measure tangible improvement in school mock exams. It also permanently protects your highly competitive peak-time slot in my schedule.

  • I operate a strict 24-Hour Cancellation Policy. Because your time slot is exclusively reserved for you in a limited calendar, sessions cancelled or missed with less than 24 hours' notice are billed at the full rate. If you give more than 24 hours' notice, every reasonable effort will be made to arrange an alternative online or face-to-face make-up session within the same week, subject to availability.

  • As a former Head of Mathematics, I have comprehensive, deep-dive expertise across all major UK examination specifications. This includes Edexcel, AQA, OCR, and Cambridge International (CIE). Whether your child is sitting GCSE Higher Tier, A-Level, or Further Maths, their tuition will be strictly aligned with their specific exam board's mark schemes and assessment objectives.

  • Mainstream Year 12 and 13 students can utilize their free timetable blocks between 9:00 AM and 3:00 PM. Students can either log into my interactive digital whiteboard from a quiet study area/library at their school, or leave campus to attend my Yarm home office. This frees up their evenings and offers a reduced rate (£75/hr) compared to peak evening slots.

  • Online tuition is delivered nationwide using a premium, fully interactive digital whiteboard system alongside high-definition video. Students do not need any complex software, but they will need a laptop or tablet with a stable internet connection. For the best interactive experience, I highly recommend a low-cost digital writing tablet (such as a Wacom Intuos, approx. £35) so they can write equations on our shared screen seamlessly.

  • Yes. I specialize in the intensive preparation required for elite Russell Group and Oxbridge admissions. This includes dedicated coaching for the Cambridge STEP (Sixth Term Examination Paper), the Oxford MAT (Mathematics Admissions Test), and the TMUA (Test of Mathematics for University Admission). These sessions focus heavily on advanced problem-solving strategies and academic interview coaching.

  • As a professional educational practice, data privacy and security are treated with the highest priority. Oxford Mathematics Education is fully registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) under the UK Data Protection Act 2018.

    All academic metrics, mock grades, and baseline diagnostic reports are held securely using enterprise-grade, encrypted cloud architecture. We strictly collect student profiles directly from parents or legal guardians to tailor our curriculum paths. Your family's data, contact details, and performance metrics are strictly confidential—we never share or sell student data to third-party marketing services, ensuring absolute digital safety for your child.