Sevenoaks School Entrance Guide

Alison has a creative approach to the lesson, depth of knowledge, tailored made lessons and able to make complex topics understandable. My son has great respect and personal connection with her and push himself further where us as parents we are not able to reach. I totally recommend Alison to anyone.

Alison is an excellent tutor, who engaged immediately with our daughter, quickly establishing the gaps in her knowledge and the exam techniques she needed to master in order to succeed. We had a limited timeframe to prep for an academically challenging exam, but Ali filled us with confidence that our daughter could achieve what she needed to. Ali taught with kindness and encouragement and our daughter actively looked forward to her sessions and felt motivated by the feedback Ali gave her. I would not hesitate to recommend Ali to any family looking for a tutor.

Nicola was exceptionally structured in her approach to tutoring. She took time to understand our needs, conducted a baseline and then concentrated on the areas needing the most focus. Nicola set high expectations each week for what needed to be achieved, but coached and encouraged our son all the way so that he never lost interest and stayed focused on achieving the goal. We were very impressed with Nicola’s kind, attentive and professional approach. Her feedback throughout was excellent and really helped us in ensuring we were developing our son’s skills in an efficient and effective way.

Holly has been a fantastic tutor. She is extremely engaging and positive and my daughter looks forward to her lessons. I have seen a significant improvement in her abilities and I am confident she is well prepared for her 11+ exams.

My daughter enjoys the lessons. Alison’s feedback & summary of the lessons are very helpful. We are very lucky to have Alison

Alfie enjoys his tutoring lessons with Alison and he improved his writing since he started working with Ali.

The tuition has been great, so useful and my son loves the sessions. He has also made great progress.

Emily is an excellent teacher. In a short period of time, she helped our daughter to prepare for the 13+ entrance exam to Sevenoaks.

Charlie was a fantastic tutor for our 12-year-old who needed to be prepared for the entrance exam to a private school. In addition to the technique, he boosted our child's confidence in creative writing. I would certainly highly recommend Charlie as a private tutor.

Alison is lovely. She has a great rapport with our daughter, and is a fantastic teacher who explains things clearly and provides detailed and very useful feedback to us as parents.

Gary prepared my daughter for the 9-year entrance exam into a private school. Gary is an excellent tutor. He combined work during the sessions with homework really well, and determined and targeted weaknesses and loopholes in my daughter's knowledge really fast. I had regular feedback on the progress that my daughter made. He also informed me about what she needed to work on a bit more. Most importantly, after lessons with Gary, my daughter was confident about her exam.

Alison is meticulous , kind , adaptable , and my son genuinely enjoyed his lessons . She understood exactly what was needed and undertook to deliver that .

Holly provided fantastic support and tuition, helping my daughter achieve offers from both Sevenoaks School and Caterham School. My daughter enjoyed the online sessions and always looked forward to working with Holly. Thanks so much for all your help!

Friendly, kind and takes the time to get to know the student to tailor the learning appropriately.

Sobia has been such a help - she is patient and explains concepts in a clear manner. My daughter has really grown in confidence and her maths has improved significantly as has her non-verbal reasoning. What is more my daughter comes away from her sessions with Sobia saying how much she has enjoyed the hour!

I highly recommend Alison. She tutored my son of 10 and now my daughter of 8. She is punctual, professional and generous. Alison is passionate and dedicated teacher, able to connect and build relationship with pupil she works with, taking my son one step further in a safe way, filling the gaps, preparing every lesson in details. She encouraged my son all the way, feeding the successes even more and this was not only learning but growing together. Thank you again, Mara.

I wanted to write to you to tell you how pleased we were with the results we got from working with Josh who you introduced us to start of 2021. My daughter was in year 5 at the time so we were relatively late to tutoring compared to some of her peers. Though our daughter had a good grounding and support from her prep school I know that working with Josh was a huge factor in her success. She’s just had offers from CLSG, Jags, Alleyn's, Sevenoaks and an academic scholarship at St Dunstan’s. The first three would have been considered stretch options for her when we started the process. If you ever want me to do a reference for Josh I’d be delighted to as our experience has been great. We didn’t do any extra work with our daughter ourselves so Josh did all the out of school work. As well as making sure she was confident on the basics and techniques required generally he proactively worked with her on past papers for specific schools - for example highlighting the different approach to some maths questions for City and what they were looking for. His style also worked really well for us as he’s very calm about the whole process and was able to make her feel comfortable very quickly. She really enjoyed working with him and remained enthusiastic about her lessons throughout which made everything easier for me! Thank you to you too Lawrence for finding Josh for us.

Our daughter enjoyed working with Jay very much! In fact, we've asked him today if he may be free a couple days over half term.

Sobia tutored my daughter who was not doing the common entrance as she was at an international school for 13+ scholarship exam for a British public school. She worked with her on English, Science and Maths. She has an excellent rapport with her and found the lessons stimulating and interesting. We would wholeheartedly recommend Sobia.

Hi Lawrence, we're really loving our sessions with Holly, she's exactly what we were hoping to find and we have every confidence that it'll be a long and productive tutoring relationship for our son!

Gary did a fantastic job with our daughter. He managed to build a special relationship with her and keep her motivated over a 5-month period. His explanations were very clear and (our daughter) improved very substantially. She moved to the 1st set in maths and did very well in her entrance exams.

Isabel was a wonderful tutor, she was quick to find the places where my son was weak and work on them. She stretched and encouraged him and he went on to be invited to attend scholarship papers at a leading school. We will certainly look to Isabel when GCSE time comes for help. I could not recommend her highly enough.

Sobia is an excellent tutor. From the moment we met her on Skype, she was warm and friendly and made us feel very comfortable. It was important to me that my daughter worked with someone she was comfortable with, and she was. Sobia understood our goal and prepared Açelya accordingly within the short time frame we had. Working with Sobia had definitely improved Açelya's chances of achieving her aim. Furthermore, Sobia always made sure she answered any questions or problems we had outside of tutorial times. This was much appreciated. I would definitely recommend her to anyone.

Isabel is very helpful. She knows exactly how to pick the difficulties and work accordingly, and the best part is that she has worked really hard to help my son bring out his dormant creativity. We are very lucky to have Isabel as our tutor.

I am very happy and satisfied with Owl tutors and would definitely recommend my friends and family.