From Falling Behind to Confidently Flourishing:
Supportive Group Tutoring to Help Your Child Thrive
Feeling helpless as you watch your child freeze in lessons, fall behind or lose their love of learning?
You don’t have to stand by and watch their confidence slip away.
Online group tutoring helps primary school aged children remove the barriers of fear, frustration and self-doubt - unlocking skills, belief and joy in learning once more.
Whether in school or home educated, your child's future is brighter than you think. Let's rebuild it together.
My Group Tutoring Programmes
Does your child feel isolated in their learning, lack confidence and self-belief, or struggle to stay engaged?
My small group online tutoring sessions provide a high-energy, creative and collaborative space where children feel encouraged, engaged, and excited to learn. Whether they’re home educated or attending primary school, these online tutoring sessions will help them realise they are not alone!
Maths Unscrambled
Is your child struggling to keep up in maths lessons - relying on fingers, freezing during questions, or missing new concepts because they have gaps that are holding them back and causing increasing frustration and overwhelm?
Maths Unscrambled offers confidence-building online group tutoring for primary school children who need to fill learning gaps, strengthen core skills and finally feel capable again.
Helping your child enjoy maths again through interactive games, digital manipulatives and real-world problem-solving.
Narrowing your child's individual gaps, building stronger, more efficient strategies that work for them so they can actively participate in class again.
Removing the fear of being wrong and the anxiety that comes with feeling like they’ll never catch up or do as well as their peers.
Replacing feelings of defeat and embarrassment with pride and success in every mathematical task.
Boosting confidence, independence and self-belief as your child sees tick after tick in their books - instead of pages of endless crosses.
This isn’t just progress on paper — it’s building a maths mindset that lasts.
Powering Up Writing
Is your child overwhelmed by writing tasks, staring at blank pages, or stuck using the same few words over and over?
Are they losing confidence, becoming reluctant to write - knowing that whatever they produce will come back covered in corrections?
Powering Up Writing offers targeted, confidence-building online group tutoring for primary school children who need to build strong sentence structure, expand their vocabulary, and write with greater fluency, creativity, and control.
Helping your child overcome blank page syndrome by generating vivid ideas they are excited to write about.
Strengthening your child’s ability to organise their thoughts clearly, building strong paragraphs that flow with confidence.
Expanding their vocabulary through immersive, real-life inspired topics and creative experiences that bring writing to life.
Removing the overwhelm writing can bring that causes children to freeze or give up too soon.
Boosting confidence, creativity, and pride as your child produces longer, richer, and more expressive pieces — and starts seeing positive, encouraging feedback instead of endless corrections.
✍️ Powering Up Writing
Is your child overwhelmed by writing tasks, staring at blank pages or stuck using the same few words over and over? Are they losing confidence with every piece of marked work filled with corrections instead of encouragement? They're not alone.
Powering Up Writing offers targeted, confidence-building online group tutoring for primary school children who need to develop strong sentence structure, expand their vocabulary and write with greater fluency, creativity and control.
Instead of freezing when asked to write, repeating basic phrase or producing short, underdeveloped pieces of work, your child will learn how to generate vivid ideas, organise them clearly and use ambitious language that lifts their writing to a new level. Your child will write for longer, producing stronger, richer pieces of writing and with greater independence — seeing real improvements in their writing feedback - all without overwhelm or reluctance.
Through immersive, real-life inspired topics and creative experiences, writing is brought to life - helping your child to live, breathe and imagine what they are writing about, making it easier, more meaningful and far more enjoyable. Ultimately, they'll produce
writing that is more powerful, engaging and expressive.
This isn’t just about spelling corrections - it’s about building a fluent, capable and enthusiastic writer ready to tackle every challenge with confidence.
Times Tables Workshop
Is your child still counting on their fingers, struggling to remember times tables or falling behind as maths gets faster and more demanding? They're not alone.
The Times Tables Workshop offers engaging online tutoring for primary-aged children, designed to turn slow, uncertain recall into fast, confident multiplication skills - without stress, frustration or endless rote repetition.
Instead of hesitating, guessing or feeling left behind in every maths lesson, your child will build automatic recall they can rely on - unlocking stronger progress across division, fractions, problem-solving and more. They'll move from slow, finger-counting to quick, accurate answers that boost their confidence every time they speak up in class. They will be able to keep up, participate actively and learn new concepts with ease.
Through fun, interactive games, rapid-fire challenges and creative memory strategies, I make learning times tables stick for your child - turning a daily struggle into a lasting strength.
This isn’t just about knowing multiplication facts - it’s about building a faster, braver, more capable mathematician, ready to thrive.
Maths Unscrambled Group Tutoring
Grasping mathematical concepts that are difficult for your child to comprehend in class.
Building number confidence by ensuring your child has solid foundations.
Equipping your child with practical strategies that work for them.
Developing fluency and accuracy with addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
Targeting your child's specific gaps and misconceptions in knowledge and understanding.
Increasing participation and willingness to tackle challenging problems.
Fostering critical thinking and logical reasoning skills through structured and sequential learning.
Supporting understanding through practical sessions that help your child visualise the maths.
Powering Up Writing Group Tutoring
Equipping your child with the knowledge of how to plan, organise, and structure their writing.
Fostering creativity by encouraging children to explore and analyse different writing styles.
Expanding your child's vocabulary by exposing them to new vocabulary.
Developing your child's writing by teaching them how to write for a specific purpose.
Eliminating your child's reluctancy to write through providing practical and fun writing opportunities.
Helping your child to articulate their thoughts clearly and effectively in planning and writing.
Collaborating with peers to share ideas, develop sentences and use better vocabulary.
Supporting your child's writing capabilities by effective modelling and scaffolding.
Meaning In Reading Group Tutoring
Reducing frustration that your child feels when struggling to read.
Developing your child's reading skills moving from reading words and sentences to reading for meaning.
Enhancing your child's vocabulary and giving them the tools to find the meaning of unknown words.
Developing your child's critical thinking by exploring texts in a structured and supported way.
Providing hands on opportunities that enable your child to experience the words - bringing them to life!
Encouraging a love for reading by providing enjoyable sessions and exploring quality texts.
Helping your child to analyse, summarise and give opinions of texts - key skills needed for comprehension.
Supporting your child's reading comprehension through targeted teaching of key skills.
Each group tutoring session provides a highly supportive environment where your child will fall in love with learning again. Where their strengths are embraced and they step out of their comfort zone!
The collaborative learning, helps build an independence which will enable them to truly succeed in class. They get to practise asking for help. Having peer-to-peer discussions. Answering questions in front of other children. Sharing ideas. These are skills that are needed for your child to become an active, confident member of their class.
Your child needs little and often for the skills and knowledge to become embedded. That's why group sessions provide so much more than one session a week. Your child will benefit from support throughout the week. Whether this be video tutorials, activities and games, drop-in sessions, workshops or feedback sessions with myself.
Sessions run term-time with additional holiday booster sessions available. A drink and snacks are provided for your child. Spaces are capped at 4 students a session. Just £35 a week.
Let me help your child to become a motivated, highly confident and independent learner, who keeps up in class easily, without fear and whose progress flourishes!
1-2-1 Tutoring
You want what's best for your child, but they need help in too many areas. You know everyday in class they are trying to mask their struggles. You listen to other parents boast about how amazing their child is doing, but you know your child is only just coping.
You're worried how your child's future is going to be affected. You know if things don't change, the gaps are going to get bigger and your child's confidence is going to diminish even more.
It's a pretty hopeless situation especially considering they appear to be hind in reading, writing and maths! Or is it?
If your child is lacking confidence, feeling overwhelmed, struggling to vocalise their struggles and needs help in more than one subject, 1-2-1 tutoring would benefit them.
I offer a highly impactful 1-2-1 tutoring programme that works with your child exactly where they are. Not only do they benefit from a personalised session with me, they receive activities to complete between sessions to ensure they are practising the skills learnt.
No child is going to progress at their full capacity if they hate learning! FACT! Despite being 1-2-1, sessions are engaging, fast-paced and provide opportunities for your child to have those light-bulb moments, where they realise just how much they already knew.
I work at your child's pace, tailoring sessions to their highest priority. During sessions, I carefully balance nurturing your child, whilst still encouraging them to challenge themselves. Providing a safe environment for them to make mistakes and to learn from them.
Let me help your child become a risk-taker, to step out of their comfort zone and to go on an incredible journey that sky-rockets their confidence and progress!
Momentum Writing Club: Holiday Booster Sessions
Is your child struggling to maintain momentum over the holidays? Do you want them to return to school with a renewed sense of confidence and progress in their writing? My Momentum Writing Club is the perfect solution to ensure your child starts the new term with a bang!
Prevent Learning Gaps: The long breaks during school holidays can sometimes lead to a loss of valuable learning. My holiday sessions keep your child on track, reinforcing essential writing skills so they’re prepared for the challenges of the new term.
Boost Confidence: By focusing on key writing skills and providing targeted, one-on-one support, your child will feel more confident when facing assignments, tests, and creative tasks.
Small Group, Big Impact: Through engaging, interactive group sessions, your child will benefit from tailored attention and plenty of practice, all while building a love for writing.
Stay on Top of Writing Skills: Whether it’s refining story structure, improving vocabulary, or perfecting grammar, our holiday sessions are packed with practical exercises that help your child strengthen their writing abilities.
Creative and Fun: Who says learning can’t be fun? These holiday sessions are designed to be enjoyable, with activities that inspire creativity, boost writing fluency, and leave your child excited to continue writing!
How it Works
Book a free consultation and we will discuss how I can support your child! This means I'll be finding out more than just their academic struggles. I want to know their interests and hobbies, their personality etc.
We make a plan of action that will get the best results! During each session, I will be providing targeted provision for your child. Every session provides opportunities to assess progress and to inform the next session.
They will become more confident, enjoy learning again and will grasp difficult concepts in a practical way. You'll receive feedback from your child's teacher about their improved confidence and their can-do attitude.
Testimonials
Hazel King
Zara has completely transformed my son from a 10 year old child who lacked so much academic confidence to an 11 year old who has passed all his year 6 SATS and is ready to take on the new challenges of secondary school in September. She has worked hard to make him believe in himself. Zara has a magic touch with children where she is calm and patient, pushes them to do better and progress at each session, and does not allow negativity. The positive change in my son has been remarkable. School have noticed a massive improvement in confidence, effort and achievement, with an excellent report at end of year 6. We are continuing on into year 7 with tutoring and now my daughter going into year 4 is starting with Zara too. Already she is working well for Zara and enjoying the 1 to 1 teaching.
Alison Lumgair
Zara has been tutoring my son for 6 months. After the last few years of interrupted learning we thought our son would benefit from a bit of extra support with his English and build on his Maths which he was already fairly confident with. The 11+ was not our end goal, so we questioned whether we should start tutoring or not, but after the first session to hear him say ‘I really enjoyed that’ we knew it was the right thing to do. Zara engaged our son every week, he grew in confidence and was for once willing to do work at home!! At the end of the academic year there was a noticed improvement in his school report which I have to give Zara the credit for. I would definitely recommend her.
Frequently Asked Questions
Where do group sessions take place?
I currently run sessions from my house in Northumberland Heath. This means I can provide a local tutoring service for students living in Bexleyheath, Belvedere and Erith.
There is plenty of street parking, a park close by to walk or local supermarkets to do the weekly shop whilst your child is having their tutoring session.
What if I don't want group tutoring for my child?
Parents can often feel group tutoring takes away from their child's learning. Afterall, you as parents are paying and investing in your child's future so you want to know your child is benefiting from it.
But I would like to take this moment to reassure you that when group tutoring is taught well, the benefits can far exceed 1-2-1 tutoring.
Let me explain...
When a child lacks confidence, so much so that it holds their academic progress back, they often start in a place where they are fearful of answering questions, they find it hard to articulate ideas and end up needing lots of support and reassurance.
It's important that we discuss your child holistically, to see if they would benefit from the supportive group environment that will help them become an active member of the group, giving them the confidence to imitate this in a classroom, or whether your child needs the comfort blanket of having more personalised attention.
Therefore, I do have limited 1-2-1 slots. However, there can often be a waiting list.
How are your group sessions different to others?
Group sessions are run as half-termly blocks. Each week there is a main session. The sessions are fun, engaging and hands on wherever possible. Your child will have opportunities to learn and practise a skill. However, for the most effective progress to be made, your child needs opportunities to practise regularly. This is why I provide extra activities during the week for your child to complete. Please do not fear - I am not giving your child hours and hours of homework a night that will cause overwhelm, not a worksheet in sight. It will be tutorials, games, activities etc. Each activity will be short and sweet, but super helpful to your child's progress and confidence.
During sessions, it's important your child keeps their energy, especially when they have had a long day at school, so a snack and drink will be provided.
We will build a supportive environment by getting to know each other, helping and supporting each other. Imagine your child having the opportunity to feel on top of the world as they help another child rather than always being the one who needs help!
I am a big believer that hard work, perseverance and showing up matter. This is why I use rewards such as trophies, certificates and prizes.
Furthermore - in each half-termly period, your child will have an opportunity to jump online with me for 20 minutes or to come to my house for a drop in session. These will be 1-2-1 sessions and will provide feedback and personalised support in helping your child further progress. These usually take place half way through or at the end of each half-term to prepare/review for the next half-term. I will always provide a link for you to book a slot in advance on a first come, first serve basis.
In addition, I am on call to help your child. Whether they are stuck with homework, or need a little extra support, you can contact me and I will respond with a video response/voice note in a timely manner. Your child's extra work will also be acknowledged and feedback provided.
And if that wasn't enough, I provide your child with all the resources they need to practise at home. They get their very own set of pens, pencils, whiteboard and pens, highlighters. Depending on whether your child is having reading, writing or maths group tutoring sessions, will depend on what other things your child will find in their giftset.
I am a big believer that every child deserves to succeed, and that's why I do everything in my power to make it happen for your child!
How much are group tutoring sessions?
Instead of charging per session, I charge weekly. Regardless of whether you are booking your child in for reading, writing or maths tutoring, all group tutoring is priced at £35 a week.
This is inclusive of the sessions itself, all extra activities provided, the resources and giftset and the extra 1-2-1 drop-in session offered.
What about 1-2-1 tutoring sessions?
As a tutor, I understand each child is different and therefore group tutoring may not suit all children. Or your child may benefit from 1-2-1 tutoring at the beginning.
1-2-1 tutoring sessions are held at my house in Northumberland Heath, or I can provide tutoring sessions locally in the surrounding areas of Bexleyheath, Barnehurst, Belvedere, Erith, Crayford, Dartford.
From January 2025, 1-2-1 sessions are from £65 (travel incurs extra costs depending on distance). And for an additional £10 a week, your child will receive additional support through recorded tutorials, games and activities for them to practise key skills.
