One student, one tutor
1-to-1 KS3 Tuition
£35per hour
60 minutes · online via Google Meet
- Flexible timetable agreed with the tutor
- Personalised learning, suited to your child's needs
- Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9 content
- Online via Google Meet
KS3 · Year 7 to 9
KS3 Maths tuition
Maths for Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9, one-to-one or in a weekly group. KS3 is where the number and algebra that GCSE takes for granted is actually built. It is far easier to fix a gap here than to find it in Year 11.
Two ways to learn
Taught as a group
KS3 Group Tuition
£5per hour
60 minutes · online via Google Meet
- Fixed weekly slot
- Builds the foundation GCSE is built on
- Year 7 to Year 9 taught together
- Online via Google Meet
Group timetable
One session a week, one hour, online via Google Meet. Year 7, Year 8 and Year 9 students are all welcome.
- KS3 (Year 7 to 9)Saturday · 11:00am–12:00pm
Who is it for?
KS3 rarely feels urgent, which is exactly why gaps open up in it. Here is how tuition supports students at each stage.
- Year 7 students
- The move to secondary school changes how maths is taught as well as what is taught. Tuition here is about keeping pace with that shift rather than quietly falling behind it.
- Year 8 students
- The year where algebra, ratio and proportion arrive properly. Get these right and GCSE is built on solid ground. Miss them and everything after is harder than it needs to be.
- Year 9 students
- GCSE content starts sooner than most parents expect. This is the last year to close gaps before they start costing marks that count.
- Students who have lost confidence
- Maths is the subject students decide they are bad at earliest. Working through a topic properly, at a pace that allows questions, is usually all it takes to undo that.
- Students who find class too slow
- For students who finish early and coast. Harder questions on the same topic, pitched above what the classroom has time for.
Every KS3 lesson
The same structure whether your child is one-to-one or in a group.
Every lesson · 60 minutes
- 10 min
Starter
Recall on the number and algebra skills everything later is built on, so gaps are caught now rather than in Year 11.
See an example
Four questions from earlier topics: simplifying, percentages, solving and ratio. - 20 min
Teaching and AFL
One idea taught properly and understood rather than copied, because KS3 is where the habits that decide GCSE are formed.
See an example
Expanding 5(2p − 1), worked through on the left and repeated on the right for the student to try. - 15 min
Fluency exercise
Practice until the method is automatic, which is what stops it costing thinking time two years later.
See an example
A set of questions on one skill, worked until the method stops needing thought. - 15 min
Exam practice
Harder, multi-step questions in the style GCSE will ask, so the step up later is smaller.
See an example
A worded problem where the algebra has to be built before it can be expanded.
Building towards GCSE
KS3 is not sat as an exam, so there is no board to follow. Teaching is pointed at the number, algebra, ratio and geometry that GCSE will assume has already been mastered.
The best time to start is before it is a problem
Book a free consultation and we will talk through where your child is now, what KS3 is about to ask of them, and what a term of structured tuition would target.