Natasha

I am a friendly, supportive and experienced Teacher of English (secondary schools) who lives in Rugby. I have two children in secondary school and I am passionate about teaching English. I also love to read and I am currently working on creative writing projects. I am a qualified teacher with Qualified Teacher Status, also trained in Cambridge English Language Teaching for Adults. If you are studying a GCSE please let me know which exam board you use and bring samples of your work when we meet as this will help me to plan a first lesson that is personalised to you. I am also trained in neurodiversity and am currently completing a Postgrad in neurodiversity with specialism in ADHD teaching because of my experiences as a mum (one of my children is neurodivergent). I will work to build your child`s confidence and work with their strengths (I also have a diploma in coaching). I will diagnose how I can support your child and put together personalised lessons to help them grow, rather than using a one-size-fits-all approach.

This is a recommendation from another parent:

It is my pleasure to write these words for Natasha. She helped with my son`s GCSE English. She possesses exceptional personable demeanour that had very perceptible effect on my son`s attitude and interest in the subject right from the start. We saw steady improvement in his performance and he achieved grades way above the expectation. Natasha was very quick to narrow down on the problem areas and undertook remedial actions with laudable results.

Dr Khalid
Cawston.
Rugby.

Availability: I can tutor online or in person - willing to travel.

Willing to travel: 5 miles

Experience: Teaching Experience and My Eleven Plus advice

Currently undertaking a Postgraduate Diploma in Neurodiversity
I am hold QTS (Qualified Teacher Status) and am trained and experienced in teaching English and Languages. I teach and tutor secondary children at key stage three and GCSE. I can help diagnose issues with a spelling or reading. I love to read and write and am passionate about my subject!

I helped my son to pass his Eleven Plus and i taught him myself for the most part.

If you would like information about Eleven Plus teaching pls get in touch- In short I taught my son across all subjects but had a maths tutor to help me.

I feel concerned when I see parents booking onto programmes where the child attends once a week or purchasing an online programme and maybe hitting the books once a week on top. That is not enough and it takes daily work and effort.

It is a family event not just something you can outsource to a company. I observed what I did and observed the families who passed. The families who passed made it part of their identity and worked daily, putting it FIRST.

If families passed in my experience and from what I saw, they paid caring tutors to help them, worked with the tutors and also did the work themselves. I saw highly intelligent kids who were dropped at a corporate tutoring centre once a week NOT PASS. This process is as much about parent coaching and support in my opinion, as anything else. I am not saying it`s impossible to pass using a tutoring centre, I am saying that I didn`t see people pass by using this route. I would say if you are a using a tutoring centre that would need to be in combination with lots of work at home, and daily work in the year of the exam including test papers and test books (CGP) that you mark.

Families who passed created networks of kids who worked together while one parent was teacher. I think the key to passing is relationships, not just thinking you can fix it with paying one corporate place on a monthly subscri ption. It takes CARE. I believe there is pretty much no way of getting through this without care from individual adults.

This care could come from individual tutors or from you.

You also have know their scores on exam papers long before the test (people should be getting positive grades in Easter of year 5 before a September test) - so there should hopefully be no major surprises on the day (although anything can happen).

Get the CGP books and start working through them with your child age 7 or 8. You are never too early. Work at pace and keep an eye on the date when you need to be completing the 10-11 books. Work daily. I do believe kids who are young in the year at a big of the disadvantage as they are nearly a year younger and technically turn seven up to a year later. Just start as early as you can and play catch up if you have to, working on the books week in and week out.

And get CARING tutors to guide you or use a family network but don`t expect the corporates to get you through. I didn`t hear of anyone who got through with them. It`s just a different level of work that is required and care.

Personally I would recommend tutors who are parents who have got their own or other kids through the test. What i found useful is having someone to keep me on track. So this week you need to do this and that. By now we should be xyz. As i said I really believe this is about parent support more than anything else.

And one more thing - they aren`t all cut out for it. One of my kids is bright as a button but maths is not her thing and she would have hated this process. Make a realistic call from the word go - at the start of primary you want to know they are very good at maths and easy to teach maths to. If they struggle - it may not be the right thing for them. Embrace their other strengths but not Eleven Plus.

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