GEEP Education - Maths, English and Science Tuition in Leeds/Online

GEEP Education - Maths, English and Science Tuition in Leeds/Online We give parents peace of mind by offering Maths, English and Science Tuition. Our focus on mainly on the core subjects of Maths, English and Science.

We are a leading provider of Quality Tuition backed up with Inspirational Training and Support for Young People. We provide quality tuition and support in Maths, English and Science to all levels up to and including GCSE. We provide specific weekly tutorials and our students have extra access to support for their homework and specific exam preparations. Our core focus is on Maths, but we evaluate

the other core needs of our students and provide the support to ensure that they are strong overall in Maths, English and Science. Our goal is to work in partnership with local schools to deliver the extra support that will ensure that the students that we work with go on to achieve their best possible grades and can apply to the top 10 schools in their fields in the United Kingdom and other global Ivy League Schools.

The first full week back.Here is what is actually happening in school right now, most of which nobody will tell you.Base...
07/09/2026

The first full week back.

Here is what is actually happening in school right now, most of which nobody will tell you.

Baseline testing.

Many secondaries run cognitive or subject baseline assessments in the first two or three weeks. These feed target grades that will follow your child around for years.

Setting.

Maths, and often English and Science, are being set or re set. Decisions are being made quickly and on thin evidence.

Expectations are being established.

Not the school's expectations of your child. Your child's expectations of themselves. A student who decides in week two that they are "not good at this subject" will behave accordingly until something forces a change.

Teachers are building a picture.

Right now your child is a name and a data point. By October they are a story, and the story is sticky.

๐—ช๐—ต๐˜† ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ป๐—ฒ๐˜…๐˜ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ธ๐˜€ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐˜๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐˜€๐˜ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—บ.

In September the syllabus has barely started. A gap found now can be re taught before anything is built on top of it.

The same gap found in January is buried under a term of new content, and by April there is no room to teach anything at all, only to revise around it.

That is the whole argument for acting early, and it is why we run our free assessments in September rather than in the new year, when most families finally reach for help.

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฒ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜๐—ต ๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ฒ๐—ฒ๐—ธ:

Ask your child which lesson they are most and least looking forward to. The second answer is the useful one.

Check whether the school has told you about baseline tests. If not, ask.

Write down the one subject you would most like to be different by Christmas.

Then come back to that note in December. It makes the whole term measurable.

Comment with the subject you want to be different by Christmas.

๐—ช๐—ฒ ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—น๐—ฑ ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ฏ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—บ. ๐—ก๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐˜† ๐—ฐ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—บ๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—บ, ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—ป๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐˜† ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ธ๐˜€.We hold a number of subsidised places ever...
05/09/2026

๐—ช๐—ฒ ๐—ต๐—ผ๐—น๐—ฑ ๐˜€๐˜‚๐—ฏ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ฑ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฝ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ฒ๐˜ƒ๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐˜† ๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—บ. ๐—ก๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐˜† ๐—ฐ๐—น๐—ฎ๐—ถ๐—บ๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—บ, ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ฎ๐˜‚๐˜€๐—ฒ ๐—ป๐—ผ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐—ฑ๐˜† ๐—ฎ๐˜€๐—ธ๐˜€.

We hold a number of subsidised places every term. Most terms, some of them go unclaimed, and it is not because there is no need.

It is because nobody asks.

So this post is the asking, done for you.

If you want your child to have tuition and the fee is the reason they do not, send this page a message and say so.

That is the whole process.

You will not be asked to prove anything, provide documentation, or explain your circumstances to a stranger.

We will talk about what your child needs and we will find a number that works, which sometimes means a group place rather than one to one, sometimes a reduced rate, and sometimes a free place.

๐—ช๐—ต๐˜† ๐˜„๐—ฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€?

The Sutton Trust's 2026 research found thirty per cent of pupils from the best off households have had private tuition against twenty three per cent from the worst off, and forty five per cent in London against nineteen per cent in rural areas.

Tuition has become part of how the system works, and a service that only reaches families who can comfortably pay is quietly widening the gap it claims to close.

We are a small provider. We cannot fix that. We can make sure our own list does not look like that list.

Two things you can do today.

If this applies to you, message the page.

If it does not, share the post. The family it is meant for is far more likely to see it from you than from us.

Jonah

First day back for a lot of families today. You will ask "how was school" and you will get "fine", and that is not your ...
02/09/2026

First day back for a lot of families today. You will ask "how was school" and you will get "fine", and that is not your child being difficult. It is a question too broad to answer.

Seven that actually work:

1. What made you laugh today?
2. Who did you sit with at lunch?
3. What was the hardest thing anybody asked you to do?
4. Did anything happen that you did not expect?
5. Which lesson went fastest?
๐Ÿฒ. ๐—ช๐—ฎ๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—บ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐˜ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ณ๐—ฒ๐—น๐˜ ๐—ฎ ๐—ฏ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—น๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜?
7. If you could redo ten minutes of today, which ten?

Two rules that matter more than the questions.

Ask sideways, not across. In the car, walking the dog, washing up. Eye contact raises the stakes and teenagers in particular give worse answers face on.

Ask one, not seven. This is a list to choose from, not an interrogation to run.

Number 6 is the one that earns its place. It gives a child permission to say they did not understand something without having to admit failure, and it is often the first sign of a subject going wrong, weeks before any assessment shows it.

Good luck to everyone going back this week. Tell me in the comments how the first day went.

Free diagnostic assessment week starts today and runs to Saturday 5 September.Most schools go back on Wednesday. Here is...
31/08/2026

Free diagnostic assessment week starts today and runs to Saturday 5 September.

Most schools go back on Wednesday. Here is why the timing matters more than it looks.

The first three weeks of term are the only window where a gap can be found cheaply.

Teachers are still setting baselines, nobody is behind yet, and a topic that is missing can be re taught before anything is built on top of it.

By half term the syllabus has moved on and you are repairing rather than preventing.

That is the whole argument for acting in September rather than January, and it is why we run assessment week now.

Forty minutes. Online or in person. Maths, English Language or Science.

A written summary of what is secure, what is not, and the three topics that would move the grade most.

Free, with no obligation to book anything.

After Saturday, autumn tuition slots go to a waiting list. We cap group sizes at six and one to one availability is genuinely finite, so this is not a manufactured deadline.

Message the page with your child's year group and subject.

If cost is a concern, say so in the message. We hold subsidised places every term and we would rather you asked than assumed the answer was no.

Free diagnostic assessment week runs from Monday 31 August to Saturday 5 September.๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜:A forty minute assessmen...
27/08/2026

Free diagnostic assessment week runs from Monday 31 August to Saturday 5 September.

๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—ด๐—ฒ๐˜:

A forty minute assessment for your child, online or in person, in Maths, English Language or a Science.

It is adaptive, so it finds the edge of what your child can do rather than testing what their year group is meant to know.

A written summary within three working days: topics that are secure, topics that are not, and the three that would move the grade most.

A fifteen minute call to talk it through if you want one.

๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐˜€๐˜๐˜€:

Nothing, and there is no obligation to book anything afterwards. The summary is yours to take to school, to another tutor, or to keep in a drawer.

๐—ช๐—ต๐˜† ๐˜„๐—ฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ ๐—ถ๐˜.

Because the commonest reason tuition does not work is that it starts in the wrong place. A tutor who follows the school's scheme of work will re teach things your child already knows and skip the thing that is actually broken. Six months and a lot of money later, nothing has moved.

๐—ช๐—ฒ ๐˜„๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—น๐—ฑ ๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ ๐—ณ๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ผ๐˜‚๐˜ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐˜๐˜† ๐—บ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜‚๐˜๐—ฒ๐˜€.

Slots are limited because each summary is written by hand. Message the page with your child's year group and subject to book one.

And a note we mean sincerely: if the assessment shows your child does not need tuition, we will tell you that. It has happened more than once.

Message the page with year group and subject to book a free slot.

Nine days to the new school year. The reset checklist that is not about pencil cases.Most schools in England go back aro...
24/08/2026

Nine days to the new school year. The reset checklist that is not about pencil cases.

Most schools in England go back around Wednesday 2 September, with many using the first day or two as INSET, so plenty of children start on the 3rd. Check your own school, term dates are set locally and they vary.

Either way, you have roughly nine days. Here is the reset checklist that has nothing to do with pencil cases.

1. Move bedtime back now, not on the 1st. Sleep timing shifts by about fifteen minutes a night comfortably. If your child is going to bed at midnight, that is a week of adjustment, not one Sunday night of misery.

2. Do twenty minutes of maths, three times. Not revision. Not a workbook cover to cover. Twenty minutes of arithmetic, three times over nine days, purely to get the machinery moving again. The six week gap is real and the first fortnight back is where it costs them.

3. Read something. Anything. Fifteen minutes a day of a book they chose does more for English than any holiday workbook. Comics count. Football autobiographies count.

4. Find last year's report and read the targets. Not the grades, the written targets. Those sentences are what the teacher will be looking for progress against in the first term, and almost no family reads them twice.

5. Ask one question. "What is the one thing you are actually worried about going back?" Ask it in the car or on a walk, not across a table. You will get a better answer.

6. Write down what you want to have changed by Christmas. One sentence. It makes the parents evening in October a very different conversation.

Which of these are you doing this week? Tell me in the comments.

If number 4 turned up targets you did not understand, send us a photo of the report and we will translate it for you, free.

Our November GCSE resit programme is now open for Maths and English Language.๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—ถ๐˜€:Eleven weeks, from the first wee...
22/08/2026

Our November GCSE resit programme is now open for Maths and English Language.

๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—ถ๐˜€:

Eleven weeks, from the first week of September to the November series.
Small groups, capped at six, so nobody hides at the back.

Week one is diagnostic only. We find the specific foundations that are missing before we teach anything.

Weeks two to ten are built around what that diagnostic found, not around a generic scheme of work.

Week eleven is full papers under timed conditions with individual feedback.
Taught by qualified subject specialists.

๐—ช๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ถ๐˜ ๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜:

It is not a repeat of Year 11. Recovering a two-year syllabus in eleven weeks is why most resits fail.

Who it is for. Students who came out with a grade 3, or a low 4 in a subject they need higher, and who are prepared to do about forty minutes of independent retrieval practice a week between sessions. We will show them exactly how.

Places are limited by the group cap.

Message this page with your child's subject and grade and we will send you the timetable and the fees and tell you honestly if we think a different route suits them better.

And if cost is the barrier, say so in the message. We hold a number of subsidised places each term and we would rather you asked.

๐—œ๐—ณ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฑ ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ ๐Ÿฐ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐— ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ต๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—˜๐—ป๐—ด๐—น๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ต ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด, ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜† ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€.Congratulations...
20/08/2026

๐—œ๐—ณ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚๐—ฟ ๐—ฐ๐—ต๐—ถ๐—น๐—ฑ ๐—บ๐—ถ๐˜€๐˜€๐—ฒ๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ ๐Ÿฐ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐— ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ต๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—˜๐—ป๐—ด๐—น๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ต ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—บ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ป๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด, ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ ๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐˜€ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ๐—ณ๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ ๐˜†๐—ผ๐˜‚ ๐—บ๐—ฎ๐—ธ๐—ฒ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜† ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป๐˜€.

Congratulations to every family celebrating this morning. Genuinely, enjoy it.

This post is for the other households. If your child missed a grade 4 in Maths or English today, read this before you make any decisions.

๐—™๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐˜€๐˜, ๐˜๐—ต๐—ฒ ๐—ณ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—น ๐—ฝ๐—ผ๐˜€๐—ถ๐˜๐—ถ๐—ผ๐—ป. ๐—” ๐—ด๐—ฟ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ๐—ฒ ๐Ÿฏ ๐—ถ๐—ป ๐— ๐—ฎ๐˜๐—ต๐˜€ ๐—ผ๐—ฟ ๐—˜๐—ป๐—ด๐—น๐—ถ๐˜€๐—ต ๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐Ÿญ๐Ÿฒ ๐—ฑ๐—ผ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐—ป๐—ผ๐˜ ๐—ฒ๐—ป๐—ฑ ๐—ฎ๐—ป๐˜†๐˜๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ป๐—ด.

Under current post 16 arrangements your child will normally be required to keep studying that subject alongside whatever else they do, either towards a resit or towards a Functional Skills qualification.

They will get another attempt. The November resit series is the next one.

๐—ฆ๐—ฒ๐—ฐ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ฑ, ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐—ฎ๐—ฐ๐˜๐˜‚๐—ฎ๐—น๐—น๐˜† ๐—ด๐—ผ๐—ฒ๐˜€ ๐˜„๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—ป๐—ด ๐—ณ๐—ฟ๐—ผ๐—บ ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฟ๐—ฒ. Most students who miss a 4 and then resit do the same thing again: they repeat a whole year of content at the same pace and hope it lands differently.

It usually does not, because the problem was never coverage. It was two or three specific foundations that were missing while everything else was built on top of them.

๐—ง๐—ต๐—ถ๐—ฟ๐—ฑ, ๐˜„๐—ต๐—ฎ๐˜ ๐˜„๐—ผ๐—ฟ๐—ธ๐˜€ ๐—ถ๐—ป๐˜€๐˜๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ. Diagnose precisely what is missing, teach those things properly, and leave the rest alone. A student resitting Maths in November has roughly eleven weeks.

That is more than enough time to move a 3 to a 4 if the eleven weeks are aimed correctly, and nowhere near enough if they are spent re covering the syllabus.

Our November resit programme opens on Saturday. Twelve weeks, small groups, Maths and English Language, built entirely around a diagnostic in week one.

Today, though, do not sign up for anything. Feed your child, tell them this is fixable, and come back to it at the weekend.

If you want to talk it through, message the page. No charge and no sales pitch.

I did not start GEEP Education because children need more school. Most of them have plenty.I started it because help is ...
19/08/2026

I did not start GEEP Education because children need more school. Most of them have plenty.

I started it because help is not evenly distributed.

I trained as a maths teacher. I then spent years researching education, which mostly means watching the same pattern repeat: two children of identical ability, in identical classrooms, ending up in different places because one of them had somebody at home who could explain the homework, or afford someone who could.

The Sutton Trust's 2026 figures put it plainly.

Twenty nine per cent of secondary pupils have had private tuition. Forty five per cent in London. Nineteen per cent in rural areas. Thirty per cent among the best off households against twenty three per cent among the worst off. Twenty five per cent of Year 11s, which tells you most families reach for help only when the deadline is visible.

That is not a story about clever children and less clever children. It is a story about who has access to a second explanation.

GEEP exists to widen that access. Practically, that means:

Qualified, subject specialist teaching. Not a sixth former with a worksheet.
A free diagnostic before anyone pays anything, so nobody buys sessions they do not need.
Methods with evidence behind them. Retrieval practice, spaced review, worked examples, deliberate practice.

Free teaching published openly on this page every week, for families who are not going to become clients and should not have to.

If that is the kind of provider you want in your child's corner, follow the page. If you want to talk about your child, message us.

Jonah

Three days until GCSE results. Most of the useful thinking can be done before Thursday rather than during it.The four co...
17/08/2026

Three days until GCSE results. Most of the useful thinking can be done before Thursday rather than during it.

The four conversations worth having before Thursday.

One. What is the actual plan? Ask your child what they think they will do in September if everything goes to plan. Get it said out loud now, while it is calm. A vague plan discovered at 8:15am on Thursday is how families end up making decisions in a panic.

Two. What is the backup? Not as a prediction of failure. As a normal piece of planning. "If Maths comes back a 3, what do we do?" A child who has already heard the answer will not spiral when they see the number.

Three. Who do we ring? Get the numbers written down now. The school exams officer. The sixth form or college admissions line. Both are far busier on Thursday than they are today.

Four. What does the college actually need? Check the entry requirements for the courses your child has applied for. Not the offer letter from last winter, the current published requirements. They move.

And a note on the day itself. Whatever the grades say, the first hour is not for strategy. It is for reacting. The plan can wait until lunchtime.

If Thursday brings a result you were not expecting, we will be here. Send the page a message and we will talk you through the real options, including the ones that do not involve us.

Message the page on Thursday if you need to talk it through.

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