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AI can help explain an idea, but your child still needs to practise producing an answer independently. Here, I personally mark their submitted work and give them feedback, deciding what needs attention and setting a specific improvement to make. A regular submission deadline gives the practice structure, and their later work helps me see whether they can use the feedback.

Set aside around 15–30 minutes to read the comments, revisit the model, make the essential improvement and check the result. The focused improvement task itself usually takes about 15 minutes; reading and checking need time too. These are flexible planning estimates, not timed tests.

Extra activities and wider reading are optional. Prioritise the essential improvement, then choose extra practice if your child has time. There is no need to send the rewrite back for another round of marking: keep it for reference and move on to the next pack.

Each year has a curriculum. The starting task and subsequent work show your tutor which skills need attention. Support or stretch replaces part of the standard task. GCSE routes also use the student’s confirmed exam specification and set texts.

Yes. AQA is a central focus, and we also support the main Pearson Edexcel, OCR and Eduqas GCSE English Language and Literature specifications taught in England. The exact qualification matters: for example, Edexcel English Language and English Language 2.0 are different courses. Select the boards on the enrolment page; English Language and Literature can use different boards. Then confirm course codes if known, exam year and set texts, including poetry, in your reply to your tutor. For International GCSE, Welsh qualifications or another route, enquire before paying. Exam-specific tasks are supplied only after the specification is confirmed.

Yes. The starting task establishes priorities. At GCSE, your tutor selects the most useful part of the map against the actual exam date. Your child does not have to complete every preceding pack before receiving relevant support.

No. It is focused supplementary practice. School lessons and wider reading remain important. The weekly learning pack and feedback tasks do not replace a full school timetable or teaching of every set text.

We make the demands of strong GCSE answers explicit, show how they are met in worked models, and set deliberate practice matched to the exam board. Your tutor personally marks each submission, gives precise feedback and sets a focused improvement task. The challenge builds from the student’s starting point towards increasingly independent work. Grade 9 is the ambition, not a guaranteed result; progress reports show what the student can actually do.

Contact your tutor before paying if independent written lessons may be difficult to access. Support changes the task, not the child’s right to meaningful challenge. A short comprehension or fluency check may reveal a need to adjust the route or recommend more specialised help; it is not a diagnosis.

Yes. Handwritten work is the usual route when that matches how your child will take their exams. Plain typed responses are welcome, particularly where typing is their agreed way of working. Tell me about any access arrangements so I can match the practice appropriately. Independent answers should be the pupil’s own, using only the assistance we have agreed.

For exam arrangements, your child’s school confirms what applies. JCQ guidance explains access arrangements, including word processors.

No scheduled live lesson is included. Your child can record questions in the pack; your tutor addresses them in the feedback.

Email your tutor to agree a revised feedback date. Your free week has no seven-day expiry; email Alex to agree revised dates. For paid weeks, send missed work within 28 days or agree another arrangement. Ask about pauses before the next Sunday release.

Every purchase is one-off. Cancel within 14 days for a full refund, even if the first pack was supplied. After that, unreleased weeks can be refunded proportionately. Read the purchase terms.

I personally mark your child’s submitted work and give them feedback. During this launch, AI assistance is limited to generic teaching wording; identifiable student submissions are not imported into AI. See the privacy notice.

A complete guided lesson with explanation and a worked example, the student workbook, submission of the relevant completed work, Alex’s personal feedback and a specific improvement task. It is the normal learning → practice → feedback → improvement cycle.

Your child works through the written guided lesson at home, at a convenient time. Alex personally marks the submitted work and gives feedback afterwards. There is no scheduled live session.

No. “First week” means one complete weekly package and its feedback and improvement cycle, not a seven-day countdown. Your welcome email gives suitable first dates. If you need longer, email Alex to agree a revised date.

Yes. Each new student can have one free first week. Register each child separately. If two children use the same first name and parent email, contact Alex to arrange the second request.

Alex confirms the first submission and feedback dates in the pack email. The usual timetable is submission by Thursday at 6pm, with personal feedback by Friday at 8pm, UK time. Late work normally moves to the following Friday; contact Alex to confirm. Your first dates allow time to complete the lesson.

No. The promised personal feedback and improvement task are included even if you decide not to continue. No card details, automatic payments or automatic enrolment are involved.

KS3 Years 7–9 and GCSE Language Years 10–11 have a complete skills lesson. GCSE Literature is matched to the course and set text: an AQA Macbeth starter is available, and Alex confirms other texts and boards before accepting a free-week start. A-level Years 12–13 can request a free week: Alex checks the course, board, texts or topics and confirms suitable practice before the trial begins. Other qualifications remain by enquiry.

For KS3 and GCSE, after the feedback choose another paid week or a longer package if you wish: £30 for one week, £120 for four weeks or £330 for twelve weeks. Each package contains its full number of paid weeks, in addition to the free introductory week. No automatic renewal. A-level continuation and its price are confirmed separately before payment.