Christopher

I live in Bristol and serve my local community through working at a local high school. I have a young family and love spending time on family excursions and seeing friends. My hobbies include fitness and conditioning through gym sessions, as well as playing squash once-or-twice per week. Taking up running is on my to-do list, but this has been the case for some time!

Availability: I am available during weekday evenings:

- Monday 6pm onwards
- Tuesday 4.30pm onwards
- Wednesday 5pm onwards
- Thursday 4.30pm onwards
- Friday 4.30pm onwards

and also weekends:

- Saturday mornings
- Sunday mornings

I am happy to offer this during term-time and non-term times, although non-term times may have to have slightly different timings, to suit both myself and my tutees.

Willing to travel: 2 miles

Experience: I am a passionate maths teacher with 4 years experience of teaching GCSE maths. My approach to teaching is based around developing understanding and forming deep links between topics, so that no one topic becomes `siloed` knowledge.

This approach requires basis and strategic long-term thinking towards a student`s needs. Once the core skills are mastered, I ensure diagnostic questions are used frequently to test for true understanding, as well as interleaved problem-solving to replicate the experience under test/exam conditions. Foremost, the wellbeing of the learner takes priority and I am extremely sensitive to the affect on anxiety levels that learning maths can often have on learners.

The department I teach in has achieved tremendous results in recent years, which I have been proud to be part of. We sit at +0.77 progress 8, meaning learners will achieve almost a whole grade more than expected at the end of primary school. These are amongst the top results in the south-west, both based on attainment and progress 8.

My own results sit towards the top end of my department, with learners achieving at least more than half-a-grade higher than expected en masse. This is down to expert pedagogy, forensic questioning and a thorough level of trust with my students. I would be delighted to help any student achieve further progress in maths and nurture a passion for learning.

DBS Check: Yes