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Featured testimonial from parents of a Primary school child

My family have been tutored by Janet now for the past 12 years. She has worked with all 4 of my children, some of them from before school age until year 9; currently she is working with two of my children.

She has the experience and skills to offer continuity of teaching through many years whilst offering the children great curriculum support throughout the primary school and into secondary school. When they are little, Janet knows what they need to do next to progress and as they get older she encourages them to start to take more responsibility for their own work by taking suggestions from the children about the work they want to improve, as well as knowing what they should have help with.

She is flexible to meet children’s changing needs and supportive of parents as they try to help their child to do the best they can. When a child is struggling, she gives them patient help to enable them to progress step by step, and boosts their confidence. She makes learning fun and helps the children to see that they can achieve what they are struggling with, even if it is going to take hard work. My children found it most useful that Janet gave them structure and skills to remind them of the method to use, with certain topics, so that they could put that into practice in school and succeed on their own. 

Mother of Year R boy and Year 9 girl.

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Testimonials from other Primary school children and parents

Mother of Year 6 girl

“….I am dropping you this email to say that E  said she struggled on the Monday with SATs, but this was English! She said she “smashed” her maths (or so she thinks).  It’s a real shame actually; had I have known the progress you made with her would be so great, I would have signed her up long ago fo...

Mother of a Year 6 girl

“Janet it so professional in her tutoring approach, but more than that, she goes the extra mile to get to know the child and their family. She helps the child set goals and then provides support and guidance to get them there. She is patient and encouraging and my daughter has actually really enjoyed...

Mother of a Year 8 and Year 5 children

“Janet has helped support both our children, who are very different in terms of personality and need. She took special care to identify their own specific requirements and remained open and flexible as things progressed. She is a warm and experienced person who has gone above and beyond, even after w...

Mother of Year 1 boy and Year 3 boy

“Janet has been fantastic with our children. She is warm, professional, knowledgeable and approachable.  Janet matches the lessons to our children’s needs and has helped their confidence, interest and competence grow significantly.  She helps them to maintain focus when learning whilst also making it ...

Mother of Year 4 girl

“My daughter has been going to Janet for maths tutoring for some time now and we have seen a remarkable difference in her confidence and the way in which she now approaches her maths. Having always struggled with how to apply her knowledge to maths questions, Janet has worked hard at teaching her how...

Mother of a Year 4 girl

“My daughter has been having weekly tutoring with Janet Atkinson for more than 18 months now. She has special educational needs and struggles with a lot of her school-work, but I was particularly concerned about her incorrect letter formation and illegible handwriting that had become a real barrier t...

Parents of a Year 4 girl

“Our daughter has been tutored by Janet for two and a half years since she started year 4. We wanted some help to build up our daughter’s confidence in her school work mainly in maths but also in English. The one to one sessions and Janet’s calm approach have really helped our daughter and there has be...

Parents of a Year 5 boy

“Our children have been tutored by Janet for the last three and a half years. Janet was recommended to us by a friend to help our son with school entrance exams. Our son was tutored by Janet throughout year 5 and helped him with exam technique and verbal and non verbal reasoning which he did not do i...

Father of Year 6 girl

My daughter was scared of the entrance exams she was facing for senior school. She had not seen the test types before and was apprehensive. Target Tutoring gave her the confidence to attack them head on, the one on one teaching helping her reach her full potential in the entrance tests by focusing o...

Mother of Year 6 girl

“Over this time, we have been impressed with the progress our daughter has made in terms of building her skills and, most importantly, her confidence in core subjects.  Janet has provided a flexible approach and regularly accommodated specific requests to focus on particular areas of need.  In doing ...

Mother of Year R boy and Year 9 girl

“My family have been tutored by Janet now for the past 12 years. She has worked with all 4 of my children, some of them from before school age until year 9; currently she is working with two of my children.
She has the experience and skills to offer continuity of teaching through many years whilst of...

Testimonials from Secondary school children and parents

On many occasions Target Tutoring has been able to help secondary age students because their skills in certain areas may have a particular weakness  and their curriculum needs fall within that of a very able primary child. This has most frequently happened when a personal recommendation has preceded initial contact and parents have made the choice based on this and the rapport they believe I can forge with their child. I have worked with Key Stage 3 & 4 students in school to support them in one-to-one sessions, and have taught Study Skills to classes of Year 9 students to enable them to optimise their revision techniques as they approach their final school exams, before they enter Key Stage 4.

Featured GCSE Testimonials

“Jack is a fantastic tutor (must take after his mum!) Also, from a parent’s point of view, I’d like to add that Jack is very professional, friendly and approachable; he is understanding of different needs and lessons are good value for money! We couldn’t ask for more and L will be back for A level tuition if Jack is interested?”

Parent of the Year 11 girl who penned the adjacent note.

“E really felt he benefited from Jack’s tutoring sessions. He said that Jack explained the subjects really clearly and in a better way than his teachers. He said he came out of the sessions having an excellent understanding of the topics.”

Parent of Year 11 boy

Mother of a child recently moving into Secondary school

“Janet has helped my daughter with additional tutoring when she was finding things difficult with her studies. My daughter was at that difficult stage between Primary and Secondary schooling and Janet was able to help her gain confidence dealing with fractions. Janet was able to provide a comprehensi...

Mother of Year 8 boy

“Our son thoroughly enjoys his English classes with Mrs Atkinson which he started in Year 7 and has been taking now for 18 months. The lessons have improved his confidence and communication skills, made a tangible difference to his English grades and also helped other subjects that require written En...

Year 9 pupil aged 14

“I have always been a good creative writer, however, I have struggled with punctuation since around Year 5. I think that tutoring has improved my punctuation considerably and has also introduced me to new grammar points which are useful tools in my writing. I have been aided with simple and advanced ...

Year 8 girl.

“I first started working with Mrs A in 2011 when I was in Year 3. After a while my confidence had grown and I stopped tutoring for a while. I returned in 2014 when I was in Year 6 and approaching SATs assessments. Obviously, sometimes we all get very confused in maths but what has really helped me is...

Mother of Year 8 girl.

“My daughter’s confidence in maths has increased significantly over the years that she has been a pupil of Target Tutoring. While she still finds numbers and maths difficult she has been able to learn strategies to help her cope. Support with her homework and reinforcing school learning has also contr...

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