Small groups · Term-time & holiday lessons
Wild Grove is a neighbourhood tuition centre for primary, secondary and exam-year students. Groups stay small, tutors stay the same each term, and every lesson starts from what your child actually found difficult last week.
Our approach
Most students do not need a new syllabus. They need someone to notice the exact step where the method stops making sense, and then enough practice to make that step boring. That is the whole plan at Wild Grove.
Programmes
Each programme runs as a weekly ninety-minute session during term time, with shorter intensive blocks in the school holidays. Mix two subjects if the timetable allows it.
Arithmetic fluency, fractions, algebra and the written methods that exams expect. Students re-learn the steps they skipped and then rehearse them until they are automatic.
Comprehension, structure and sentence control. We read closely together, then build paragraphs that answer the question asked rather than the one the student hoped for.
Biology, chemistry and physics taught as explanations rather than lists. Plenty of diagram work, required practical write-ups and the vocabulary mark schemes reward.
For Years 10–13: past-paper practice under real timing, mark-scheme reading, and a revision routine that fits around everything else a student has to do that week.
How it works
Nothing is committed until you have seen a lesson and agreed the schedule. Starting is meant to feel reversible.
Send the enquiry form with the year group, the subject and anything a school report has flagged. We reply with the groups that currently have space.
Your child joins a real group for one session. The tutor makes a short baseline note and tells you honestly whether that group is the right fit.
We confirm the weekly slot, the topics for the term and how you would like updates. Change the slot later if school clubs or fixtures move.
Our tutors
A small teaching team, each with one or two subjects they stay with all year.
Maths · Years 5–11
Teaches method before shortcuts, and keeps a running list of every step a group has found slippery so it reappears in later practice.
English · Years 3–13
Marks written work in front of the student rather than in private, so the reasoning behind every correction is part of the lesson.
Science & exam technique
Runs the timed-paper sessions, and is unreasonably fond of making students read the mark scheme before they write anything.
Questions
Yes. Every new student sits one trial session with the group we think suits them. If the fit is wrong, we will say so and suggest a different group or stage rather than enrol anyway.
By year group first, then by the topics students need. A group is never mixed so widely that the tutor has to teach two lessons at once.
Usually. Clubs, fixtures and school trips move, so tell us as early as you can and we will look for an equivalent group with space.
A short practice task between lessons, normally twenty to thirty minutes. It is deliberately small, because it has to coexist with school homework rather than compete with it.
A few lines from the tutor after each lesson covering what was taught and what to practise, plus a longer written review at the end of each term.
Enquiry
Tell us the year group and the subject and we will reply with the groups that have space, a suggested trial lesson and the fees for that timetable.