Online Maths Tuition for Home-Educated & Neurodivergent Students
I’m a qualified teacher with QTS and 19 years’ experience in education, including extensive work in SEN, SEMH and alternative education.
I provide personalised online Maths tuition for home-educated young people in Years 3–11, including GCSE and iGCSE, with weekday daytime availability.
Who I particularly help?
I work especially well with young people who:
Learn and think differently, including autistic and ADHD students
Have lost confidence or become anxious about Maths
Have gaps in their learning following disrupted or difficult experiences of education
Haven’t thrived with conventional classroom approaches
Are home educated or receiving EOTAS/alternative provision
Are working towards GCSE/iGCSE, from securing the Grade 4 they need through to aiming for higher grades
Not every student I teach has a diagnosis or has struggled at school. What they tend to have in common is that they benefit from Maths being adapted to them, rather than being expected to fit a particular way of learning.
Why online?
Online tuition is a deliberate part of how I work rather than simply an alternative to face-to-face lessons.
For some young people, learning from their own familiar space removes some of the pressure involved in travelling somewhere new or having another person enter their home. It also allows families to find a tutor who genuinely fits their child rather than being limited to whoever happens to live nearby.
Online won’t suit every student, but for the right young person it can provide a comfortable and surprisingly engaging way to learn.
What do we actually do?
My starting point is the student. I identify gaps in mathematical knowledge, but I also want to understand why something isn’t working.
We might need to rebuild an earlier concept, find a more visual way of explaining something, practise a core skill until it requires less effort, or work on how to approach and decode an unfamiliar exam question.
Depending on the student, I can provide:
KS2 and KS3 Maths
GCSE and iGCSE Maths
structured Maths teaching as part of a home-education programme
support towards a Grade 4 GCSE pass
support for students aiming for higher GCSE grades
exam preparation and revision strategies
rebuilding foundational skills and filling gaps
support with confidence, engagement and independence in Maths
Progress looks different for different students
Recent outcomes have included a student progressing from a Grade 4 mock to a Grade 7 at GCSE, as well as a GCSE resit student successfully securing the Grade 4 pass they needed.
But progress isn’t always a grade.
For a young person who has become disengaged from Maths, the first significant change might be attending consistently, attempting questions again, asking for help, or discovering that something they had believed they “couldn’t do” actually makes sense.
That’s often where the academic progress begins.
I currently work with both privately funded and EOTAS students and have weekday daytime availability particularly suited to home-educated young people.
Parents are very welcome to get in touch for an informal conversation about their young person, what has and hasn’t worked for them before, and whether online tuition with me might be a good fit.