Great skills in English language are truly empowering for students, allowing them to discuss real issues using articulate and analytical reasoning. By reading and analysing a range of texts, both fiction and non-fiction, students learn to be critical of the ways in which writers are expressing themselves.

Students who achieve success in GCSE English language become confident and creative in their own communications.

I teach English Language for primary students tackling KS2 all the way to Year 11 GCSE preparation.

English literature GCSE can be daunting, especially when students are reading Shakespeare for the first time, or exploring a nineteenth-century novel.

I teach GCSE students to explore the actions and motivations of characters, to understand the key issues that the novelist, poet or playwright wishes his readers to focus upon, and to stretch their imaginations away from the page into real life.

When writing about literature, it’s really important for students to think through and structure their arguments so that each point is analysed, and presented with evidence from the text, linked to other questions that are relevant, and explained thoroughly. My presentations, use of video and “model answers” will help them achieve that elusive grade nine.