The Malling Tutor

23/03/2026

Attention homeschoolers: I offer daytime sessions to support and guide you in your homeschooling journey. Sessions are to improve confidence, regain a love of learning and to simply have FUN in English - all things we used to able to do before it became so exam driven and results based.

If your child is in Year 7 - 9, why not book some fun sessions with me to rediscover that English can be really fun - and we link it to the real world, too.

If you are homeschooling a GCSE student, I provide exam board guidance and tips and techniques, whilst encouraging critical thinking skills and ideas for using your English skills in the world of work. Plus we can still add the fun!

Daytime tutoring rates are cheaper than evening ones, so it might be more affordable than you think to do one (or maybe two) sessions a week to keep your young person on track, and enjoying their learning again.

Your young person can come to me for a change of scene, which can often help refocus the brain, or I can come to you within a 3 - 4 mile range of West Malling.

Why not WhatsApp me to find out if I can help you and your family?

I can provide testimonials from my current and past homeschooled students.

Justine 🙂

Picture is of me with my lovely rescue dog, Nova - she loves meeting all of my tutees!

31/12/2025

02/12/2025

If I were to run a mock AQA language exam (I would write the exam, so it would be original) in Kings Hill on two consecutive January weekends, would you want your young person to attend? They would sit paper 1 and paper 2, and I would mark it with full feedback provided - and a chance to talk through the feedback . I am an examiner with 13 years experience of marking papers. Does any of that sound like something you might be interested in? Or someone you know? Please comment below if so! Thank you.

14/11/2025

Also read fiction. It trains empathy and imagination in ways no textbook can.

11/11/2025

And in the same way, a four year old isn’t half an eight year old.

We miss the common sense and passionate voice of Sir Ken Robinson in the world, but that’s not to say that each and every day we can’t continue to echo his messages and pour positive energy into childhood 👏🏻

As an aside, his quote is also a portal to this question:

What if we ditched the Empty Speak of ‘Reception, ‘Year One’, or ‘Key Stage Two’ and put them in the bin where they belong, and instead transformed our narrative into speaking about ‘four and five year olds’, ‘five and six year olds’ or ‘ten year olds’?

Might this then put an end to the constructed framework imposed on childhood and enable adults to see that there’s no such thing as ‘Year One’, instead there’s the world of five and six year olds?
Now go figure what those children need and deserve….

Shifts in language can have powerful meanings - I know what story I want to tell of childhood and so do you, as one of the Play People - so why not tell it?

Too much of anti-childhood gets easily concealed under year group labels, chief amongst them, the nonsense of the readiness brigade, the dead harvest of the Phonics Screening Check and the absurdity of the word ‘formal’ which is merely code for control, ego and the end of children’s autonomy (and needs calling out for being so btw)

Let me know your thoughts on this in the comments, even if it’s to share some love for Sir Ken ❤️✍🏻

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11/11/2025

At the going down of the sun and in the morning, We will remember them.

02/11/2025

In England, young children go from glitter clay and building dens to classrooms a Victorian would recognise – and that system is failing many of them.

18/10/2025

How to annotate... show your GCSE students!

18/10/2025

20 Hidden Meanings Behind Famous Book Titles 🫣📚

13/10/2025

Aldous Huxley /
"Experience teaches only the teachable."
"Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher. He wrote nearly 50 books—both novels and non-fiction works—as well as wide-ranging essays, narratives, and poems. Born into the prominent Huxley family, he graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with an undergraduate degree in English literature."

11/10/2025

Hilarious summary of Shakespeare's plays!