Key stage 2 covers school years 3 to 6, (junior school), ages 7 - 11. For this age group I can offer a broad spectrum of tutoring: Maths, of course, plus English language and General Science. If there's anything you particularly want to cover, you only have to ask me and I'll be happy to help.

In Maths we will usually concentrate on the fundamentals of maths: times tables, long division and multiplication, basic geometry and units of measure. Of course, this is all done in a fun and interesting way - there are no dreary pages of facts to learn! I have loads of great games. Children think they're playing - in fact they're doing solid Maths practice. You may find yourself playing along at home, so be warned!

For English we cover both the structure of English and the content. Punctutation is important, as we've all learned recently from the famous book about pandas, 'Eats, shoots and leaves'. I confess I'm a bit of a stickler, and am a founder member of the S.A.S. (Superfluous Apostrophe Society). What you write is just as important as how you write it, so we also look at how to make your writing more interesting and imaginative.

I teach Science through the media of everyday objects and practical experimentation. (Don't worry, you won't find little Jonny building a nuclear reactor on the kitchen table.) So we might build a model of the elbow joint as part of Human Biology mixed with Design and Technology and Physics.

Key stage 3 is school years 7 to 9, the first part of senior school, ages 11 - 14. I offer tuition in Maths, English language and General Science. The topics listed below are only suggestions. I will teach whatever you want to learn.

Maths might involve percentages, fractions, ratio, circle geometry or an introduction to algebra. But as always, I will teach whatever is needed, so we might be reviewing and strengthening subjects first covered in KS2, or we might be looking ahead to GCSE work.

English will introduce some of the more interesting aspects of the language - adverbs and itensifiers, synonyms and similies and all their friends. We may make up Haiku and limericks and play games that improve vocabulary without even noticing!

Science becomes a little more formal than in KS2. We might introduce the Periodic Table in Chemistry, and look at sub-atomic particles in Physics. Well, when I say we'll look at them, I don't really mean that. I'm afraid I don't have a scanning electron microscope available. And that would only show molecules at best, anyway. But you know what I mean. For Biology we might examine the structure of a cell or experiment with mapping nerve endings on the skin.

Key stage 4 covers the final two years of school, years 10 and 11, ages 14-16. Most of my students are Key Stage 4, studying for their GCSEs. Sometimes students change teachers at this time and some find their new teachers and the increased pace of work difficult to handle. For others, the prospect of looming exams is a real motivator. At this level I offer Maths and Physics, and I generally work through the syllabus using one of the popular revision guides. As always, though, if you want to learn a particular topic, you only have to ask.

Maths includes topics such as inequalities, number sequences, forming and solving equations, standard form, percentages including compound interest, travel graphs, quadratics, triangle and circle geometry, bearings and loci, transformations, probability, stats, 3-D shapes, graph plotting, Pythagoras (he had to crop up somewhere, didn't he?) and Trig.

If you're aiming for the higher grades, we can extend to working with surds, trig equations, simultaneous equations, algebraic fractions, harder versions of everything that has gone before and four (count them, four!) different ways of solving quadriatics.

The Physics syllabus covers heat transfer, electricity, the electromagnetic spectrum, Newtonian mechanics, atomic structure and radioactivity, optics, sound, and a brief history of time and space (so that'll be done in a jiffy, then). I can also coach the double award science subject. You'll find links to suitable revisions guides in the books section.

A-level students will be in sixth-form or college, and will definitely need the 1-hour slots. I teach Pure and Applied Maths at this level.

A-level topics in Pure Maths could include trigonometric ratios, radians, half-, double- and compound-angle formulae, integration and differentiation, polar co-ordinates and, if you're lucky, a lovely proof that 2=1.

Topics in Mechanics include ballistics (my personal favoutite), Newtonian mechanics including the ever-popular 'point of slipping' problems, frictionless pulleys, massless laminas, light, inextensible strings and other impossible things.