An experienced teacher reads and improves your child's own writing closely, one-to-one and online, for Cambridge, Pearson Edexcel and OxfordAQA.
Turn good ideas into marks
Does your child write carefully but say too little? Or have plenty to say but lose control of it? Both problems are craft, not talent, and craft can be taught.
This focus suits a student whose reading is fairly secure but whose writing holds the grade down. It works for a Year 11 sharpening exam technique, and for a Year 9 or Year 10 building control early.
We teach one-to-one and online across Cambridge International, Pearson Edexcel and OxfordAQA. The plan starts from a real piece of your child’s writing, which the teacher reads and marks.
The writing we cover
- Directed writing. Your child responds to given material in a set form, for a stated purpose and audience, in the right register. Register is the tone and level of formality.
- Discursive and argumentative writing. They weigh a question or build a case with a clear line of thought, evidence and reasoning.
- Persuasive writing. They move a reader on purpose, using structure and control rather than volume.
- Descriptive writing. They build a place, a moment or an atmosphere, without drifting into a story.
- Narrative writing. They shape a story with a controlled arc and a real ending.
Task structures, word guidance and marks differ by board and can change between syllabus years. We teach them from the board’s current syllabus. You can find sourced details on our qualification pages, and each form is explained in our formats guides.
How a writing lesson runs
The hour splits between building a piece and improving one. It often starts with a quick plan.
For directed writing, that means reading the source, choosing what to use and deciding the form and register. For composition, it means fixing the shape before the first sentence.
Your child then writes to time, while the teacher watches the process. The teacher sees where planning breaks down, where a paragraph loses direction and where accuracy slips.
At the end, the teacher shows the single change that would lift the piece most. Between lessons, your child writes one full piece, and the next lesson gives specific notes on content, structure, register and accuracy. Over a term, you see the same craft appear more often in their writing.
Where marks leak
- Wrong audience or register. A general piece never sounds like the letter, speech or article it should be. We drill matching the voice to the task.
- Copying the source. Directed writing rewards using the material, not reproducing it.
- Stories with no destination. An exciting opening and a rushed, empty ending. We teach shape first.
- Descriptions that become plots. We separate describing from narrating.
- Arguments that repeat one idea. We work on distinct points in an order that builds.
- Careless slips. A checking routine in the final minutes catches them.
If this question is on your mind, a paid one-hour trial with an experienced teacher is the simplest way to see how we teach.
Planning under time pressure
A good writer is not always a good exam writer. The difference is often planning speed. A blank plan eats minutes, and a rushed one gives a shapeless piece.
So we treat quick planning as a skill. For directed writing, your child reads the source once with purpose and sketches the opening and close. For composition, they choose a task they can control, decide the ending first and note the movement between paragraphs in a few lines.
A plan this light costs little time and stops them writing into a corner. We practise it against the clock until it feels automatic.
Register: writing for the reader
Register separates good writing from good exam writing. A complaint letter does not sound like a magazine article, and a school assembly speech does not sound like a report. Students who write every task in the same neutral style do reasonably well but rarely reach the top.
We train the ear directly. We look at how formal a form is, how personal and what it can assume the reader knows.
Your child then rewrites the same content in different voices, so they feel the difference. We work hard on openings, because the first two sentences show whether the voice is right.
Keeping the reader in view helps composition too. A descriptive piece chooses detail that lands, and a narrative controls what to reveal and when.
Cost, scheduling and the trial
Lessons start from RM70 an hour. The rate depends on the teacher and level, and we quote it on WhatsApp first. Lessons fit around school, and you pay by the hour with no packages.
The first lesson is a paid one-hour trial with the teacher who would continue. The teacher reads your child’s writing, names what holds the grade down and begins the work.
We do not promise a grade. We do promise that an experienced teacher reads your child’s actual writing and says plainly what to change.
Scope
Your child writes their own answers from plans built in the lesson, never memorised essays. For coursework routes, we teach planning, drafting and self-editing.
Your child writes and submits every piece, because the boards require coursework to be their own work. If reading is the bigger problem, we say so.
What happens next
- Message us on WhatsApp with your child’s year, board (or “still deciding”) and what their writing does now.
- We reply the same day, suggest a teacher and quote the rate.
- Your child takes the one-hour paid trial.
- Regular lessons begin if it suits.
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