Small-group tuition
Hazel Cove is a neighbourhood tuition centre for primary and secondary students. Groups stay small, the week's work is planned in advance, and every family gets a short written note on what was covered.
Programmes
Students are placed by what they can currently do rather than by age alone. A short review session settles the group and the starting point before regular sessions begin.
Number sense, reading fluency and written confidence, built through short focused tasks and plenty of talking through the reasoning.
The bridge years, where gaps tend to open quietly. Sessions keep pace with school topics while repairing the groundwork underneath them.
Past-paper practice with the marking criteria made explicit, so students learn where the marks actually sit and how to plan an answer under time.
How a session runs
Every session follows the same shape, so students know what to expect and families can see what changed from one week to the next.
A short written review shows what a student has secured and where the gaps sit, before any group placement is made.
Small enough that a tutor sits with every student during the hour, large enough that ideas get discussed rather than dictated.
After each session a brief written note covers the topic, what went well and the one thing to practise before next week.
Take-home tasks are deliberately short. They are marked at the start of the following session so nothing drifts unnoticed.
Weekly timetable
Sessions run in fixed weekly blocks through term time. Places are held for the same slot each week so a routine can settle.
Tuesday & Thursday
Monday & Wednesday
Saturday
Half-term weeks run a lighter schedule, and the study rooms stay open on Saturday mornings for independent work with a tutor on hand.
The tutors
Students keep the same tutor for the full term. Familiarity is half the work: it is easier to admit you are lost to someone who already knows how you think.
Maths · Years 7–13
Teaches algebra by slowing it down to the single step where it usually breaks, then building the method back up from there.
English & study skills
Works on planning before prose: a paragraph outline, a clear line of argument, and only then the writing itself.
Science · Years 9–13
Keeps a set of small demonstrations for the ideas that resist explanation, and marks practical write-ups line by line.
Questions
Six in primary and secondary groups, and four in exam preparation, where more of the session is spent on individual written feedback.
Yes. The first session is a review session: the tutor works through a short written assessment with your child and talks it through with you afterwards, before any place is confirmed.
Let the centre know in advance and we will hold a catch-up slot in the same week where the timetable allows. The take-home task and session notes are sent either way.
Only their school exercise books, so tutors can see current classwork. Workbooks, past papers and stationery are provided in the study rooms.
Weekly notes cover each session, and at the midpoint and end of every term the tutor writes a longer summary of progress against the goals set at the review.
Enquire
Tell us the year group and the subject that is causing trouble. We will reply with the groups that currently have space and a suggested review time.