Kate

Tutor profile - Kate

Kate

English & History

Like all our tutors, Kate is a qualified teacher Like all our tutors, Kate holds a degree from a top University Like all our tutors, Kate holds a full, clean criminal records checkKate holds a Masters degreeKate either works or has worked as an examiner for an exam boardKate holds a degree from a Russell Group University
Kate has taught our daughter IGCSE English Literature and English Language for almost 18 months. Kate is knowledgeable and a competent teacher. She has covered both subjects in detail. We would recommend Kate to anyone considering tutoring for IGCSE English

Parent of online English student

Kate's biography

An articulate, dedicated and innovative professional with a proven ability to teach, motivate and help all children achieve, Kate is a qualified teacher with over 6 years’ teaching experience in a variety of different contexts. Her thoughtful planning, engaging lessons and timely, constructive feedback ensures that the students she works with make exceptional progress.

Having graduated from the University of Edinburgh in 2008 with a 2.1 in History, she then trained as a teacher through Teach First achieving a distinction in her PGCE. After two years in the classroom, she returned to academia, and completed a MSc in Outdoor Education, in which she also received a distinction.

As well as extensive experience within the classroom, Kate has worked as tutor for students of all ages. She has previously worked extensively with students at KS3, KS4 and KS5, helping them to hone their skills before their GCSE, A Level and IB exams, in this process, working with several different exam boards.

As a tutor, she is warm and encouraging, believing that in order for students to achieve, they must be confident in their abilities as learners. She adopts a rigorous approach to learning, using success criteria and constructive feedback to ensure that students know precisely what they need to do in order to improve, and equips them with the skills and knowledge to do this. She tailors lessons to students’ individual learning styles, and preferred ways of working, striving to make sessions enjoyable and productive.

Kate is currently working at School 21, which was recently judged to be ‘Outstanding’ in all categories. As well as heading up KS4 planning, she also runs ‘Adventure 21’, which offers all students the chance to take part in a range of adventurous activities from canoeing on the Thames, camping in Epping Forest and developing crucial skills such as resilience, independence, leadership and team work.

When not working, Kate enjoys reading, going to the theatre and mountaineering.

Kate's availability

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Kate's qualifications

Kate qualified to teach English in 2009, and holds a Post Graduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) from Canterbury Christchurch University College.

University name Name of degree Year of graduation
University of Edinburgh MSc in Outdoor Education 2012
University of Edinburgh MA (Hons) History 2008

Subjects tutored:

English (KS3, GCSE AQA, GCSE Edexcel, GCSE OCR, IGCSE, A Level Edexcel, A Level OCR, IB Standard Level, IB Higher Level and IB MYP)

History (KS3, GCSE Edexcel, GCSE OCR, IGCSE, A Level AQA, A Level Edexcel, A Level OCR, Pre-U, IB Standard Level, IB Higher Level, IB MYP and Advanced Placement)

Recent testimonials

Kate is an extremely good teacher. Her lessons are very effective and she is able to cover a lot of ground in a short time while really focusing on what matters. My son enjoyed his lessons with Kate; she boosted his confidence, he could tell himself that he was progressing and he was able to understand what he needed to do to improve his grade. Kate is very efficient and organised and prepares her lessons well. Kate made some excellent slides that my son could refer to later. Thanks to Kate, my son's IGCSE English Language and English Literature results were a grade higher than those predicted prior to the tutoring.

Mother of IGCSE English student in London

Monday, 5th September 2016

Here's where Kate can teach

London

  • Mayfair (W1Y)
  • Mayfair (W1X)
  • Soho, Piccadilly (W1V)
  • Oxford Street, Regent Street (W1R)
  • Goodge Street, Warren Street (W1P)
  • Regents Park, Oxford Circus (W1N)
  • Marylebone (W1M)
  • EC1
  • EC2
  • WC2
  • Westminster

  • Great Portland Street, Fitzrovia (W1W)
  • Marylebone (W1U)
  • Hanover Square, Savile Row (W1S)
  • Mayfair (north), Grosvenor Square (W1K)
  • Mayfair (south), Piccadilly, Royal Academy (W1J)
  • Marylebone (W1H)
  • Harley Street (W1G)
  • Soho (north west) (W1F)
  • Soho (south east), Chinatown, Soho Square (W1D)
  • Portland Street, Regent Street (W1B)
  • Paddington, Bayswater, Hyde Park, Westbourne Green, Little Venice, Westbourne Green, Notting Hill (W2)
  • Westminster (SW1)
  • Camden

  • Fitzrovia, Tottenham Court Road (W1T)
  • Highgate, Hampstead Heath (N6)
  • Euston, Camden Town, Somers Town, Primrose Hill, Gospel Oak, Lisson Grove (NW1)
  • Hampstead, Chalk Farm, Primrose Hill, Swiss Cottage, Belsize Park, Gospel Oak, Frognal, Childs Hill (NW3)
  • Kentish Town, Tufnell Park, Dartmouth Park, Gospel Oak (NW5)
  • St John’s Wood, Primrose Hill, Lisson Grove (NW8)
  • WC1
  • Kensington and Chelsea

  • Kensington, Holland Park (W8)
  • North Kensington, Queens Park (W10)
  • Notting Hill, Holland Park (W11)
  • West Kensington, Kensington Olympia, Holland Park (W14)
  • Chelsea, Brompton, Knightsbridge (SW3)
  • South Kensington, Knightsbridge (SW7)
  • Hammersmith and Fulham

  • Shepherds Bush, White City (W12)
  • Ealing

  • West Ealing, Northfields (W13)
  • Wandsworth

  • Battersea, Clapham Junction (SW11)
  • Putney, Roehampton University (SW15)
  • Southwark

  • Bankside, South Bank, Southwark, Bermondsey, Vauxhall (SE1)
  • Tower Hamlets

  • Aldgate, Bishopsgate, Whitechapel, Shoreditch, Spitalfields, Shadwell, Stepney, Mile End, Portsoken (E1)
  • Bethnal Green, Haggerston, Shoreditch, Cambridge Heath (E2)
  • Bow, Bromley-by-Bow, Old Ford, Mile End, Three Mills, London Gas Museum (E3)
  • Poplar, Isle of Dogs, Limehouse, Canary Wharf, Blackwall, Cubitt Town (E14)
  • Waltham Forest

  • Chingford, Sewardstone, Highams Park (E4)
  • Leytonstone, Wanstead, Aldersbrook, Snaresbrook, Cann Hall (E11)
  • Walthamstow, Upper Walthamstow (E17)
  • Hackney

  • Upper Clapton, Lower Clapton, Leyton, Stoke Newington (E5)
  • Hackney Central, Dalston, London Fields (E8)
  • Homerton, Hackney Wick, South Hackney, Hackney Marshes, Victoria Park (E9)
  • Leyton, Temple Mills, Hackney Marshes, Upper Clapton, Walthamstow Marshes (E10)
  • Barnsbury, Canonbury, Kings Cross, Islington, Pentonville, De Beauvoir Town, Hoxton (N1)
  • Stoke Newington, Stamford Hill, Shacklewell, Dalston, Newington Green (N16)
  • Newham

  • East Ham, Beckton, Upton Park, Barking (E6)
  • Forest Gate, Stratford (E7)
  • Manor Park, Little Ilford, Aldersbrook (E12)
  • Plaistow, West Ham, Upton Park (E13)
  • Stratford, West Ham, Maryland, Leyton, Leytonstone, Temple Mills, Hackney Wick, Bow (E15)
  • Silvertown, North Woolwich, Canning Town, Custom House, London City Airport (E16)
  • Redbridge

  • Woodford, South Woodford (E18)
  • Barnet

  • East Finchley, Fortis Green, Hampstead Garden Suburb (N2)
  • Finchley, Church End, Finchley Central (N3)
  • North Finchley, Woodside Park (N12)
  • Cricklewood, Willesden, Neasden, Dollis Hill, Childs Hill (NW2)
  • Brent Cross, Hendon (NW4)
  • Mill Hill, Arkley (NW7)
  • The Hyde, Colindale, Kingsbury, Queensbury, West Hendon (NW9)
  • Golders Green, Hampstead Garden Suburb (NW11)
  • Haringey

  • Finsbury Park, Manor House, Harringay, Stroud Green (N4)
  • Hornsey, Crouch End, Harringay (N8)
  • Muswell Hill (N10)
  • West Green, Seven Sisters, Duckett’s Green (N15)
  • Tottenham, South Tottenham (N17)
  • Wood Green, Bounds Green, Bowes Park (N22)
  • Islington

  • Highbury, Highbury Fields (N5)
  • Holloway, Barnsbury, Islington, Tufnell Park (N7)
  • Upper Holloway, Archway, Tufnell Park, Hornsey (N19)
  • Enfield

  • Lower Edmonton, Edmonton (N9)
  • New Southgate, Friern Barnet, Bounds Green, Arnos Grove (N11)
  • Palmers Green (N13)
  • Southgate, Oakwood, Arnos Grove (N14)
  • Upper Edmonton, Edmonton (N18)
  • Brent

  • Kilburn, Brondesbury, West Hampstead, Queen’s Park (NW6)
  • Willesden, Acton, Harlesden, Kensal Green, Neasden, Old Oak Common, Park Royal, Stonebridge, Brent Park (NW10)
  • City of London

  • EC3
  • EC4