---
title: Joe
url: https://owltutors.co.uk/tutor/35696/
type: Tutor profile
audience: parents
published: 2025-09-23
subjects: [11 Plus, 13 Plus, Other School Entrance, University Admissions, English, SEN]
compiled: 2026-11-15
---

# Joe

- From £120.00 per hour
- Enhanced DBS checked
- English teacher
- Qualified to teach in 1995
- Teaches: Online, Residential
- Masters, Examiner, Russell Group

## About Joe

Joanna is a very experienced and successful IGCSE/GCSE, A level and IBDP teacher with many years' teaching/tutoring experience plus GCSE and AS English examiner marking. Joanna can offer English/English literature tutoring in a range of exam boards including: Cambridge, Edexcel and AQA.

Joanna read English Language and Literature at Durham University (BA Hons), holds a Masters in Education from Manchester Metropolitan University and has been a GCSE and AS level examiner. Joanna has extensive teaching and tutoring experience: she been Head of Department and Deputy Head (Academic), teaching English (English as a Second Language) and English literature in top tier UK and international schools for 30 years. As a tutor, she specialises in 11+/13+ entrance examinations, I/GCSE, A levels and IBDP. Her excellent subject knowledge, combined with a carefully tailored/ individualised approach, ensures her students consistently make great progress, are academically successful and achieve their predicted grades- or higher- in external examinations.

For the past 16 years Joanna has taught the Cambridge IGCSE English (0500) and IGCSE English Literature (0475) courses (including the unseen poetry component) in international schools and tutored students 1-to-1. Her students always achieve very positive value added scores and exceed their baseline 'if challenged' predicted grades.

As a Durham University English language and Literature graduate and with 20 years' experience of teaching A levels, Joanna has a broad and extensive subject knowledge and a track record of effectively teaching literature and language at the very highest level.

Joanna's teaching experience includes preparing students for the following Language and Language and Literature courses: Cambridge, OCR, Edexcel, AQA. She has also been an A level examiner for AQA Language (AS level). Joanna has supported students with English related EPQs (Extended Project Qualification).

## Availability

Availability as of 15 November 2026: taking new students. Joe can currently accommodate 8 more students. Usually available (UK time): Monday: 7:00 AM–1:30 PM, 6:00 PM–7:00 PM; Tuesday: 7:00 AM–3:00 PM, 7:00 PM–8:00 PM; Wednesday: 7:00 AM–1:00 PM, 2:00 PM–3:00 PM, 6:00 PM–7:00 PM; Thursday: 7:00 AM–4:00 PM, 5:30 PM–7:00 PM; Friday: 7:00 AM–4:00 PM, 5:00 PM–6:00 PM; Sunday: 7:00 AM–8:00 AM.

## School entrance experience

Joe has experience of preparing pupils for the following schools:

- [Haileybury and Imperial Service College](https://owltutors.co.uk/schools/haileybury-and-imperial-service-college/)
- [Manchester High School for Girls](https://owltutors.co.uk/schools/manchester-high-school-for-girls/)
- [Oldham Hulme Grammar School](https://owltutors.co.uk/schools/oldham-hulme-grammar-school/)
- [Sevenoaks School](https://owltutors.co.uk/schools/sevenoaks-school/)
- [Stockport Grammar School](https://owltutors.co.uk/schools/stockport-grammar-school/)
- [The Manchester Grammar School](https://owltutors.co.uk/schools/the-manchester-grammar-school/)
- [Withington Girls' School](https://owltutors.co.uk/schools/withington-girls-school/)

Joanna has a number of years' experience of tutoring students for the 11+ English entrance examinations for Manchester independent schools and Haileybury and Seven Oaks School. All of her students were successful in gaining places at their first choice of school.

## Qualifications

- PGCE English (English), Manchester Victoria University, 1995
- NPQSL, Edge Hill, 2017
- MA Education , Manchester Metropolitan University, 2008
- BA (Hons) English Literature and Language, Durham University, 1989

## Subjects and levels

- 11 Plus (English, Verbal Reasoning)
- 13 Plus (English, Verbal Reasoning)
- Other School Entrance (10+ English, 10+ Verbal Reasoning, 12+ English, 12+ Verbal Reasoning, 14+, 16+)
- University Admissions (English Literature Admissions Test (ELAT))
- English (KS3, GCSE AQA, GCSE Edexcel, GCSE OCR, IGCSE, IGCSE (Cambridge), A Level AQA, A Level Cambridge International, A Level Edexcel, A Level OCR, IB Standard Level, IB Higher Level, ESL)
- SEN

## What parents and students say

Average rating: 5 stars from 1 review, 100% would use again.

> "Joanna is amazing. She has helped my daughter to fill out knowledge gaps and gain confidence already within the first 10 lessons." ★★★★★
> — Parent of English (A Level Cambridge International) student, 28 April 2026

## Next steps

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- Phone: +44 (0)20 3457 8474
- Email: enquiries@owltutors.co.uk