SENsational Tutors Ltd -

Sandra Kporha

We are grateful for Jessica’s hard work, patience, determination and passion. Jessica has great communication skills and was very flexible. She was very eager and joyful, passionate about my son understanding the content and patient when he struggled. She supported, strengthened and encouraged him not only in terms of his education but also through his medical treatment. Jessica was vital in the success of my son's exams, her patience and ability to help him understand was crucial. Jessica was truly a blessing

Louise Carrington

Helen has been a brilliant tutor for us. My son is autistic with a PDA profile and suspected dyspraxia. When I first spoke to Helen I explained what my son needed. The most important things for us were finding someone (very) patient and flexible. Helen said she could do that and I feel 100% she has been both these things.

Helen has a caring approach and she has continued to learn about my son’s needs along the way. Helen has reflected on and adapted how she does things as soon as any challenges arise. Helen has many strategy ideas for the tuition sessions and she will spend time outside of the sessions researching new approaches and activities. Helen provides a completely bespoke education for my son. The sessions are fun and interesting.

Helen is able to pick up on early signs of emotional dysregulation and immediately change the level of demand, offer a break or use a range of other strategies that are individual to my son.

Helen has worked with our OT to incorporate fine motor skill activities in tuition sessions, while bringing many of her own ideas. Helen has been able to engage my son with touch typing, something he has previously not wanted to do.

Helen supported us at my son’s EHCP annual review meeting, attending and being the main contributor to the meeting and writing a thorough and accurate report in advance of this.

After over a year out of school and school trauma Helen has been able to re-engage my son with learning. I am very grateful to her for this. I would highly recommend Helen as a tutor.

Ikram Faraji

I have been using SEN Tutors for nearly over 4 months now and they have been so professional and smooth sailing to work along side. They picked out an amazing tutor named Jenna who is attending to my daughters needs in both Maths and English. Jenna is patient , caring and has fun ways of making learning more enjoyable and exciting. My daughter has only done better in school since Jenna came on board and has a new found enthusiasm for learning and confidence in the class. I would recommend SEN tutors for their smooth , swift communication and easy booking procedure, I would recommend Jenna as a tutor who is able to bring out and unlock your child's strengths.

IKRAM

Rachel Corbyn

Sensational tutors matched us with Amanda over a year ago now as we were looking for a private tutor to support our Autistic/PDA daughter. When Amanda started our daughter had experienced severe school trauma and Autistic burnout and had lost all trust in adults. She barely left her room and could not engage in any other activity besides watching TV. When Amanda first agreed to work with Elsie I was at the point where I really thought no professional would be able to meet her complex needs and all provision would fail. How wrong I was! Amanda was the first professional I'd met that just 'got' PDA. She was willing to work with Elsie at her own pace and always focuses on the mental health of my daughter as the most important foundation to her learning. Amanda is extremely knowledgeable and has years of experience working with SEN children but it is also her authenticity, her empathy and her calm presence plus her lived experience as an Autistic adult supporting Autistic children herself which truly makes her one of a kind. I feel so lucky to have her supporting us as she really has changed our lives, supporting not only Elsie but our entire family. We would be lost without her. Thank you Amanda for all you do. xx

Zoe O E S

Our 15 year old daughter has dyslexia, and Caroline has been tutoring her for English Language and English Literature for the last 19 months in the run up to her GCSEs. She is a very skilled and experienced teacher as well as being kind and patient, and we have noticed our daughter’s confidence grow significantly as a result.

Caroline taught approaches for engaging with unseen texts, as well as wrangling with an enormous amount of literature content in the GCSE syllabus, condensing thoughts about themes, characters, story structure etc into digestible chunks that could be reached for during exams. She enabled our daughter to significantly improve her writing technique, and her grades improved accordingly. Caroline always communicates promptly and thoroughly after each session so we have a good idea of exactly what they have covered. We have been very grateful for all of her help.

SENsational tutors were very organised in the way they paired us up with Caroline, and contacted us from time to time to see how things were going. Their advice about how to find the help we needed, and how to navigate a state school with limited dyslexia support was all much appreciated.

Skills like this will stay with our daughter for life, and the people you choose to mentor can make an enormous difference, so we are very glad that we chose Caroline.

Sarah M

Really pleased with my son’s tutor Kelly she has been wonderful over the past 13 months. My son has, and continues to, cover a range of subjects with her. Really pleased with his progress and will also be undertaking his GCSE’s thanks to her help.

Michelle Bax

Shona has been tutoring my son in maths, for the last 2 months. He has been out of mainstream education for quite a while and 1-1 tutoring is part of his return to education plan. He is very academically able, previously attending a grammar school, however his autism, ADHD and PDA presented a lot of challenges that were not as well supported as he needed in school. On paper Shona looked to be a good fit for my son with her extensive experience teaching young people with additional needs. Shona initially met with my son to see how they would get along and if they could work well together, this is exactly the approach needed as my son will totally disengage if he dislikes a teacher. My son would be sitting his GCSEs under normal circumstances and so the initial session was an assessment of his capabilities with a view to him working towards functional skills level 2 in maths. As sessions have been going so well and he has gained his confidence back, following completion of some practise papers, he is now working towards Maths and English GCSEs. Shona is very patient, knowledgeable and really listens to my son, she also ensures that there are regular breaks during the sessions, which helps with focus, attention and engagement and I often hear them chatting away during breaks, which is lovely. During sessions, If my son is struggling, they will look at different ways to help his understanding and work through problems together. We would highly recommend Shona and SENsational tutors.

Kari Kutchera

Dee tutored my son who had been out of school for a while. She was very patient and came up with various ways to help him back into education. Her communication was excellent and she was very supportive and encouraging.