Experienced tutor, motivator and life skills coach - English tutor with Allan

I highly recommend Allan as a private tutor. His caring, patient and skillful approach encouraged my daughter – a teenager – to discover her competitive edge and to want to succeed and come top of her class and not just get by.

He identified how my daughter could progress in GCSE English Language and Maths and he worked with her to set clear and well-defined progress targets and collaboratively they worked to achieve those targets in both subjects.

In a short time she achieved a 30% improvement in her marks when sitting mock papers and we expect her to move to the top sets very soon.

Allan has been working with my 9-year old son with a view to improving his overall performance at school and build his confidence in literacy. My son had been found to have comprehension difficulties and therefore the tutor we chose needed to have patience and commitment as well as be varied enough in his approach to make the lessons interesting for a young child. Allan has been able to build trust between himself and my son and, in addition to the technical and academic elements, they have been playing “games” that have significantly improved my son’s language skills and verbal communication abilities. I have the highest respect for his approach to my son’s problems and the ease with which he dealt with them.

This is a follow-up to my earlier reference for Allan. Since tutoring my daughter Julia in Maths and English as well as helping her with her attitude and approach to school work in general, she has recently been assessed for and immediately accepted into both Kew House and St. Georges Ascot, both highly rated private schools. St. Georges even offered for her to sit their scholarship exams. We are so pleased with the work that Allan has done with Julia and we cannot thank him enough.