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English Aid Language Services - One-to-one ENGLISH TUITION for secondary pupils & BASICS BOOSTER courses
- Freelance WRITING

My name is Carolyn O'Hara and I am a fully qualified Secondary English Teacher, with 20 years experience in the classroom and more than 10 years as one-to-one tutor. (fully disclosed)

I am happy to provide BASICS BOOSTERS sessions for children of any secondary school age in term time and during holidays. CHARGES
TUITION:
£25 per hour/session

As a freelance writer, I have had work published in l

ocal newspapers, a number of magazines, poetry included in anthologies, as well as blogs and poetry published online. With a passion for social history, I have written a non-fiction social history book, “OCULEUS, The Musings of a Liberal Victorian in Ayr”, about the town in 1898 as I am keen to share my finding with a wider audience. Since the beginning of 2017, I have started reading my poetry and monologues at spoken word events which is fulfilling and fun.

04/08/2026

Time to say goodbye....

04/08/2026

Congratulations! So proud of this year's pupils. Wishing you every happiness.

05/05/2026

When qus from HIGHER English RUAE on Taylor Swift are read out on Radio 1!😆👌🏻

30/04/2026

With HIGHER English only a day away, I'm wishing my pupils every success - you've got this!😁

11/09/2025

Tuition spaces for Session 2025-26
are now filled.🙏

05/08/2025

Yup, that's how I feel today, CELEBRATING the exam successes of my pupils!

Congratulations.🎉😍👌

My mind is blown!A chance encounter at Ayr Writers' Club on Wednesday brought me face to face with a past pupil, who is ...
04/10/2024

My mind is blown!

A chance encounter at Ayr Writers' Club on Wednesday brought me face to face with a past pupil, who is now a published author.

Then, today, I read this from said crime writer, Tony Black...

"I had a fabulous evening talking to Ayr Writers' Club this week. The evening ended on a high note when the lady pictured on my left came up to me and said she thought she may have been my English teacher at Belmont Academy.

For some reason I couldn't even remember the name of my English teacher (this was 1987-ish) but thankfully, my good old bestie Sarfraz Afzal is still in possession of all his faculties and promptly informed me it was indeed Mrs O'Hara.

I'm particularly ashamed not to have recalled her name this week, as without doubt, Carolyn O'Hara is the one English teacher I owe the most to. (Flashback Warning). Mixed in with my memories of Mrs O'Hara's class (we read The Ghost of Thomas Kemp) I recall being set the homework task of writing a descriptive scene set in an airport. This was the closest I'd been, at this point, to being given a creative writing assignment and I was desperate to do well, knowing that creative writing might just be my only avenue of employment.

When my homework came back Mrs O'Hara's remarks had a huge impact on me, so much so that they were committed to memory (obviously minus their author's name!) and regurgitated many times later in moments of doubt. She wrote: "Well done, Tony. You have exactly captured the essence of descriptive writing."

A little encouragement can go a long way, especially for a child for whom any encouragement was sorely lacking. It may be impossible to weigh the impact of those words now, but remembering them all these decades later and getting to relay them again to Mrs O'Hara was a special moment.

Thanks to all at Ayr Writers' Club."

***UPDATE: Slot now filled. Thank you.In need of ENGLISH support for your child, sitting Nat 5 or Higher in 2025?One slo...
29/09/2024

***UPDATE: Slot now filled. Thank you.

In need of ENGLISH support for your child, sitting Nat 5 or Higher in 2025?

One slot has become available with me, on Tuesdays at 6 pm or 6.30 pm for an hour.

Get in touch for more information.

Celebrating the successes of my students today! 👏Proud of you - all that hard work has paid off.Onwards and upwards!😍
08/08/2024

Celebrating the successes of my students today! 👏
Proud of you - all that hard work has paid off.

Onwards and upwards!😍

Thanks to Nicola for her testimonial...
20/08/2023

Thanks to Nicola for her testimonial...

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