Key Stage 2 Maths and English online tuitionKey Stage 2 Tuition

Our tailored Key Stage 2 tuition is designed to help your child excel in Maths and English and prepare for SATs. With a focus on building confidence, filling knowledge gaps, and enhancing key skills, we ensure your child develops a solid foundation before moving onto secondary school.


What We Cover in Key Stage 2 Maths Tuition

Our Maths sessions focus on developing a strong foundation and confidence in key areas, including:

  • Core Numeracy Skills: Strengthening understanding of addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.

  • Fractions, Decimals & Percentages: Building fluency in these essential topics to ensure progress in more advanced Maths.

  • Problem-Solving: Teaching students how to approach word problems, logical reasoning, and multi-step calculations.

  • Times Tables Mastery: Helping students achieve speed and accuracy to excel in daily Maths challenges.

  • Geometry & Measurement: Exploring shapes, angles, area, perimeter, and basic graph work.

  • Test Practice: Using practice questions and papers to familiarise students with the SATs formats.

Interactive and engaging, our Maths tuition aims to make numbers fun and relatable, ensuring every student feels confident tackling challenges.


What We Cover in Key Stage 2 English Tuition

Our English tuition builds essential literacy skills and helps students become confident communicators. Key areas include:

  • Reading Comprehension: Developing the ability to understand, analyse, and infer meaning from a range of texts.

  • Creative Writing: Encouraging imagination and structure in stories, descriptions, and essays while improving vocabulary and grammar.

  • Spelling, Punctuation, & Grammar (SPaG): Strengthening technical accuracy to improve overall writing quality.

  • Vocabulary Building: Expanding language skills to enhance writing and speaking abilities.

  • Speaking & Listening: Improving verbal communication and presentation skills for class participation and beyond.

We aim to nurture a love of reading and writing, ensuring that students not only excel academically but also enjoy the process of learning.


What We Cover in SATs Preparation

The transition to secondary school is a big step, and SATs play an important role. Our SATs prep sessions focus on:

  • Familiarising Students with Exam Formats: Practicing timed papers for Maths, English, and SPaG.

  • Boosting Confidence: Ensuring students feel ready and self-assured to perform their best.

  • Targeting Weak Areas: Providing personalised support to address gaps in knowledge or skills.

  • Building Test Strategies: Teaching techniques to manage time and approach different types of questions effectively.

With our guidance, your child will feel confident and prepared for their SATs journey.

Frequently Asked Questions

No, we conduct all our lessons online via Zoom.

Each session is tailored to meet the needs of your child. The tutor will work with your child to identify specific areas or topics they need support in.  Alternatively, they can focus on work they are completing in class, support with homework or work through the curriculum. 

You will need the following:

  • Laptop, computer or tablet
  • Internet connection
  • Zoom – download the software for free
  • A microphone and speakers (built into most computers) or headphones
  • A web camera is essential as this enables the tutor to gauge your understanding

It’s easy, all you need to do is click on the zoom link, which will have been sent to you via email.  You can use the same link every week.

Tutors make the most of the online features including screen sharing, videos & the interactive whiteboards, which our tutors write or draw on to help explain concepts or work through problems with students. These tools keep lessons varied helping students stay motivated and engaged. 

Homework is typically provided each week in order to reinforce and consolidate the learning in the lessons.

Yes, all of our tutors are experienced, qualified teachers, with enhanced DBS and either currently working in local schools or have extensive experience in teaching their specific subject and are now exclusively tutoring.

Yes, we have tutors who have worked with children with dyslexia, challenging behaviours and in Special Education Schools and are SEN trained.

Yes, we offer a range of different duration sessions from 30 minutes up to 1 hour, depending on the needs of your child. However, we would recommend a minimum of 1 hour for key stage 3 /GCSE sessions, due to the content needing to be covered.

Sessions are booked and paid for in rolling monthly blocks.

We offer a trial session to all new students, before booking in regular sessions with a tutor. This gives students the chance to meet their tutor and get to know them and their teaching styles a bit better, discuss learning goals, and create a plan of action for future sessions. 

Yes, we charge our standard rates for the trial session, and will then credit/refund this back to you following a further booking of 3 consecutive sessions.

Here are just some of the reasons students come to Teach Wessex for tuition:

  • To boost confidence 
  • To fill in gaps
  • To supplement their school work
  • To improve their grade in a resit exam
  • When studying outside of conventional eduction e.g. home eduction
  • To prepare for an exam i.e. 11 Plus or SATs (Year 6)

It gives your child the chance to learn at their own pace and in a way that matches their learning style. We have found that some children are often too shy to put their hands up in class, especially if they’re struggling. The reassurance of 1:1 tutoring means they can ask all the questions they want in a friendly and safe environment.