Tutors For Excellence

It's time to boost your exam performance!
Our next Online Booster Sessions will take place during the Easter Holidays, April 7th - April 9th 2026, to help students prepare for the upcoming Final Exams for English GCSE.
We run Booster Sessions at this time to increase your child's knowledge and skills in the run up to the final exams, boosting their confidence for the final few weeks of study before the big day.
The Easter Booster Sessions take place over a 3 day period, and cover six of the most popular subject areas.
Each session lasts for 2 hours, and costs £40
To book for any of these Sessions, you can call 07902378921 or email us at [email protected].
You can read more about the Booster sessions here:
https://www.tutorsforexcellence.co.uk/gcse-english-revision-courses

It's the Autumn term already! We're back at work teaching all manner of GCSE English classes. We've had some amazing exam results from last years students (more on that soon), and our courses for this term are now almost completely full. So if you are looking for quality GCSE English tuition, get in touch while we still have spaces!

It's GCSE English Exam Results tomorrow! Wishing all our amazing students the very best for their results!

As we are in the midst of preparing for our next set of Booster Sessions at the end of February, we thought it might be good to use today's blog to talk about why we feel these sessions are so useful for students. You can read more here:
https://www.tutorsforexcellence.co.uk/learningblog/booster-session-overview

It's time to boost your exam performance!
Our next Online Booster Sessions will take place during the Spring Half Term, February 16th - February 23rd 2025, to help students prepare for the upcoming February Mock Exams for English GCSE.
We run Booster Sessions at this time to increase your child's knowledge and skills in the run up to the 2nd set of 'Mocks', boosting their confidence for the final few months of study before the exams.
The Spring Half Term Booster Sessions take place over a 7 day period, and cover seven of the most popular subject areas.
Each session lasts for 2 hours, and costs £40
To book for any of these Sessions, you can call 01256 320986 or email us at [email protected].
You can read more about the Booster sessions here:
https://www.tutorsforexcellence.co.uk/gcse-english-revision-courses

With the GCSE exams fast approaching, we know that examiners award higher marks to students who can use the correct
terminology to identify structural features in poems. Today in our blog we take a look at some of these terms, and tell you the three questions you should be asking when you analyse a poem for a GCSE English exam...
Read more at: https://www.tutorsforexcellence.co.uk/learningblog/poetry-structural-devices

In this week's Blog we present part three of a series looking at the characters in the play 'An Inspector Calls' and the roles each one plays. We continue with Ms Sheila Birling.
You can read more at:
https://www.tutorsforexcellence.co.uk/learningblog/an-inspector-calls-sheila-birling

It's Monday, so it's Blog day! This week we present part two of a series looking at the characters of the play 'An Inspector Calls' and the roles each one plays. We continue with Mrs Sybil Birling.
You can read more at:
https://www.tutorsforexcellence.co.uk/learningblog/an-inspector-calls-mrs-birling

After a relaxing time off, we're hard at work again, and what better way to start a new year than with a new Blog Series.
Over the next few weeks we'll be discussing important characters in the play 'An Inspector Calls', and the roles they play in the story.
To read Part 1, head over to:
https://www.tutorsforexcellence.co.uk/learningblog/an-inspector-calls-mr-birling-pt-1

Decent Language Devices Deserve Distinctions!

That’s right. In a GCSE English exam, the use of acceptable alliteration might be accorded awards.
That’s why we’re talking about the use of alliteration in this week’s blog on language devices, which you can read here:
https://www.tutorsforexcellence.co.uk/learningblog/language-devices-part-2

Bang!
Did that make you sit up? Well it should! That word is a great language device that will grab the attention in any GCSE English essay.
By a strange co-incidence, we’re talking about Language Devices in this week’s blog, which you can read here:
https://www.tutorsforexcellence.co.uk/learningblog/language-devices-part-1