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Nik

Nik

Private Online Maths and English Tuition

I am an enthusiastic and hardworking individual with a passion for teaching children about subjects that I am myself interested in. I am a good communicator and work well with children, and have thoroughly enjoyed my previous experiences with teaching and tutoring. I am a keen linguist, speaking both Russian and Spanish to a high level of fluency and would certainly feel comfortable tutoring in these. I am also a student of History at university, with a real passion for modern European history, as well as someone with an interest in literature. I consider myself to be a creative person, which allows me to come up with innovative and creative ways of tutoring children.

Tutoring Experience

While in Saint Petersburg, Russia, on my year abroad, I worked with an agency called United English. This organisation took me to different schools around the city, where I would teach Russian children intensive English lessons on a variety of topics, from relationships to Christmas. The children I would teach were a variety of ages, requiring me to be able to prepare lesson plans for different age groups and English-language abilities.

In the spring and summer of 2020 I also volunteered with the Coronavirus Tutoring Initiative, tutoring children who were not at school due to the pandemic. I tutored three children weekly, two at GCSE English Language and Literature, and one at AS-Level History.

Tutoring Approach

The primary thing for me is to find out early on where a child struggles with the subject, as well as which aspects they find interesting. I prefer to have interactive lessons, in which I ask the tutee to do exercises in our sessions, which we can discuss together. I find this more rewarding than me just talking and presenting to the tutee, as I personally have always benefitted from a more interactive approach. I also like to set my tutees some work in between our sessions, as I find this the best way to consolidate the learning that has happened in the session. This will never be a huge amount of work that could interfere with their other studies, but just something to keep the new material and techniques fresh in the mind.

LanguagesEnglish (British)
AvailabilityWeekends, Weekdays (all times)
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Qualifications

Ipswich School2017SchoolA Levels - History (A*), English Literature (A*), Russian (A*), EPQ (A*)
Ipswich School2015SchoolGCSEs - English Language (A), English Literature (A*), Physics (A*), Chemistry (A*), Biology (A*), History (A*), Spanish (A*), Russian (A*), Drama (A)
Ipswich School2014SchoolA* GCSE Maths
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