About
Inspired by English
At Inspired by English, we believe that learning flourishes in a calm and supportive environment. We offer personalised GCSE and A level English tuition that will help your child to not only improve their academic skills but build confidence and self-belief along the way.
Whether your teenager needs help preparing for exams or wants to feel more at ease with reading and writing, expert guidance, patience, and plenty of encouragement is available — every step of the journey.
Deborah has been an incredible tutor for us. She recognised that my daughter needed additional support and adapted her approach accordingly. Deborah was always kind, patient, and empathetic.
Shabina, July 2025
Need a Tutor You Can Trust?
Our Daily DBS Check provides you with trust, transparency
and peace of mind.
The Tutors' Association offers a daily DBS check system to ensure that tutors remain compliant with safeguarding requirements. This system automatically checks the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) status of tutors who are registered with the DBS Update Service or have a DBS certificate issued within the past year.
This is particularly useful for parents who want to ensure that the tutors they choose for their child meets safety and legal requirements.
Supporting Your Child Every Step of the Way!
SMART lesson plans and a strong pedagogical approach support
our students every step of the way!
Each hour-long session is carefully planned with SMART learning objectives to ensure teaching is focused and meaningful. Not only does this allow your teenager to understand and better engage with topics, but it also enables us to evaluate their progress more effectively. Achievable and time-bound targets mean that lessons are adapted to your child's strengths and abilities, avoiding either academic stagnation or overwhelm.
Thoughtful pedagogical approaches structure every lesson to ensure your teenager's learning is efficacious. Our tuition develops the critical thinking and personal responses that will be key to their success in GCSE and iGCSE English.
Your teenager's progress is continually measured against the Department for Education's Assessment Objectives, upon which each child is examined.
Together, let's discover your teenager's potential!
Deborah has been tutoring my son, who has SEN ... She has given him strategies to structure his answers ... In his most recent mock paper, his grade had risen from a 3 to a 5. Having resisted tutoring, my son looks forward to his sessions with her.
Karen, March 2024
Are You Ready to Help Your Child Excel
in English?
Together, we will Teach with Empathy, Share with Curiosity,
and Celebrate with Pride!
What is the purpose of non-fiction?
Language — Each exam board assesses students' reading and writing skills for two English language GCSE papers. One paper focuses on fiction, whilst the other focuses on ...
Creative writing — Creative writing is included in the English language fiction paper and commands the highest marks. Students tend to be either extremely confident in...
Poetry — Some teenagers have a fear of poetry that is almost always vanquished during private tuition. For many, the biggest challenge is allowing themselves to think and ...
Shakespeare — Shakespeare is a staple of our literary heritage. Whether your teenager is studying Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, or one of the other key stage four plays ...
Modern drama — GCSE English literature includes some excellent twentieth-century plays in its syllabus: An Inspector Calls by J. B. Priestley, A View from the Bridge by the ...
Novels — many of the novels studied at key stage four were published during the Victorian era. Texts such as The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson ...
Personalised teaching resources
Are personalised resources crucial for effective tuition? ABSOLUTELY!
Private tuition allows your teenager to benefit from a uniquely personalised and inclusive approach to learning. One-to-one lessons enable us to understand your child, develop their individual strengths, and address any struggles they may have with the English curriculum.
Clear, intelligible and highly visual resources, designed with your child's specific learning style in mind, ensure their tuition will be effective, engaging, and enjoyable.
CLEAR | VISUAL | BESPOKE
I acknowledge that some of the above resources include material from other publications and/or authors
My bright son says Deborah has made English fun again. His marks are up 2 grades ... Deborah has also gone above and beyond by developing tools and techniques specifically for him ... Very grateful!
Jonathan, April 2024
