Thomas O'reilly

My tutoring lessons are generally divided into three sections. We will start with anything you have struggled with, maybe from school in the prior week, and address these topics or any homework you have been set. Using this, we will then go on to cover more advanced questions on the same topics you bring to me and work out ways you can solve them or approach them differently. We will finish with some exam-specific questions on topics you may have previously struggled with to ensure that learning is being reinforced and you are remembering previous issues that we have covered.
Tutoring sessions are aimed to build confidence and help you to gain a better understanding of the subject in whatever way suits you best. Not everyone learns in the same way and so it is important that we address this early on. This means that learning could either be far more visual and led by me, or it could require more work by you which we then talk through together. We will work in unison to find an approach that suits you.
We also want to ensure that you begin to enjoy the subject and look forward to lessons and tutoring. Setting lots of extra work may work for some students, but for others it does not help and that is okay. Balancing up how intensive work is within our hour and then external to this is important, and we will again work together to ensure that you do not have too large a workload that impacts your other subjects.
I look forward to working with you.