Cressida's Feedback

From Ganesh

16 Jun 2024
Our daughter achieve a remarkable grade 9 in her GCSE exams. We are immensely grateful for the outstanding tutoring you provided. Your ability to simplify complex topics and motivate her through challenging content was truly invaluable. We highly recommend your services to any student aiming for success. Thank you for your exceptional guidance and support.

27 Jan 2021
We greatly appreciate Cressida’s friendly and encouraging attitude. English is not our daughter’s favourite subject, but Cressida has a way of engaging her fully in the lesson. We are also impressed with the learning resources Cressida uses for the lessons.

Ganesh, the best thing about tutoring your daughter has been to see her blossom as we follow her interests. She is responding so well to African American literature, and when young people get enthusiastic about what they are reading it makes all the difference.

From tina

My Son has just finished his GCSEs in English Language and Literature and said Cress was an excellent teacher in both subjects. He found her lessons well structured, fun and informative. She gave constructive and focused feedback which helped him to greatly improve his skills in English, as well as teaching him techniques which has helped him to score top marks in essays and analysis. He really looked forward to her lessons which was a credit to Cress's teaching style. Cress was methodical in working through past paper questions and exam techniques ahead of the final exams so that my son felt prepared to face his GCSE exams. We felt Cress was a very experienced teacher who helped my son gain confidence in the subject and aim for a top grade. I would highly recommend Cress- she is an excellent tutor!

That's so good to know Tina. We're having fun with Dickens' and Shakespeare's difficult language by doing dramatic, over the top readings together. He's really starting to relish all the long words! It's so good to watch a year 8 student's confidence increase so quickly and to know he will be in a a strong position at the start of his GCSE course.

From Carolyn

After searching for a tutor we found Cress to help my daughter who is retaking English Language GCSE this November. Three sessions later my daughter (who is dyslexic and struggled throughout school) said, ‘she is one of the most understanding teachers I have ever had and at last I have a plan on how to tackle creative writing which I find so difficult.’ Following her last session Cress has rekindled her enthusiasm and she now has hope for the retake. The sessions are on line and initially we were both reluctant to try this. However, they work really well and are easy to set up . She is an excellent teacher, I thoroughly recommend her.

Thank you so much Carolyn. It's always very rewarding for me when the strategies I give a student boost their confidence so rapidly. Vicky's good at sharing with me what's working and where she's getting stuck, which is very helpful. She's making really good progress and is a delight to tutor.

From Peng

Ms is a very capable and highly knowledgeable tutor. She is always very well on time and well prepared, with plenty of information to give each lesson. My son makes a great progress for GCSE English and English literature with her help. She does not only teach the knowledge, but also teach my son analysis and technique. During GCSE exam, my son can uses the analysis and technique to give the answers for some difficult questions.

Ms is a top tutor. My son is lucky to have chance to follow her lesson. Huge thanks!
I would highly recommend her!

From Giorgio

Cressida, thoughtful, extremely professional, and very kind teacher. We just started our path and it has been perfect so far. Through her standout empathy and knowledge, everything seems much easier, Cressida makes you feel very comfortable when learning with her. All lessons are tailored to my needs, I really appreciate their meticulous and personalised structure, also as an adult from abroad living in the UK for just three years, I finally found a person who is able to understand which are the right steps for me to take while achieving my personal and professional goals. Cress, thank you very much for your effort and your patience! Giorgio

It's a delight working with you Giorgio. It's a very rewarding challenge to craft a bespoke course for you, researching new materials and approaches to suit your unique professional and personal needs. I'm noticing a big difference in your formal spoken and written English already!

From Rahman

Excellent tutor, patient, attentive and dedicated. My son really enjoys the lessons she delivers. I recommend unreservedly.

It's good to hear you confirm what I'd hoped was the case Nasima: that he's relaxed and having fun. I really appreciate our two way conversations about the learning process, and the fact that he is becoming more and more confident to ask me questions.

From P

Cressida is helping my daughter with GCSE English work. We are really happy with the arrangement. Her lessons are always well planned. My daughter particularly found her feedback very precise and easy to understand. Enough time is spent in reviewing work and my daughter feels challenged and encouraged. I will highly recommend her.

It's lovely to see your daughter's growing confidence in responding to feedback and feeling resilient when things get hard. I'm glad to hear you confirm that the time spent reviewing her work is time well spent.

From Kelly

Cressida is a wonderful tutor. Her passion for reading and writing is so infectious. In a short amount of time has made a huge impact on my daughter who enjoys every session she attends with Cressida. She is warm, friendly and very engaging. What more can you ask from a tutor!

Thank you for your kind words Kelly. As my very youngest student, your daughter has helped me to refresh my skills for teaching children at the primary to secondary transition stage. I'm sure she's going to feel very confident when she starts Year 7 English in the autumn.

From Lucy

Cressida communicated with us very promptly to answer my initial questions and to provide examples of how her personal experience demonstrated how she may approach my daughters specific learning needs. We have not me yet but we are looking forward to doing so next week for the first session.

Thank you Lucy. I'm looking forward to working with your daughter and always want to make sure I can offer exactly what each student needs. They are all so individual: that's the joy of 1:1 tutoring.

From Claire

We've just started working with Cressida and I can see my daughter's confidence growing already. She is very approachable and clearly adapts her approach to each child's strengths and learning styles.

Thank you for this feedback Claire. As a tutor giving students 1:1 attention, I have the luxury of getting to know each child much more quickly than I could in my classroom years. It's good to hear about the confidence boost as well. I must say that the spectacular improvement in your daughter's grades, and her delight in them, has been an extra bonus for me!

From Vivien

Cressida is tutoring my year 9 daughter in English. After only two lessons Cressida gave us the most detailed assessment we have ever had from any of her teachers in reports or verbally. Cressida has been able to identify where my daughter struggles and excels in English and has identified some very specific areas to improve and is now providing very tailored tutoring for her needs. Cressida was able to put my daughter at ease from the initial online meeting and my daughter enjoys working with her. I am so pleased we found Cressida in year 9 and feel the tailored tutoring she is doing with my daughter now will reap huge benefits and give her the confidence and skills to succeed in her GCSE course starting next year. I can’t recommend Cressida enough.

This is good to know Vivien. I do find that the luxury we have as tutors is to be able to get to know our students fast and tailor everything we do to them as individuals. Everyone learns differently and it's so rewarding to be able to work to students' strengths and find different ways of tackling the things they find challenging.