Daniel Okonjo

Daniel teaches A-level Maths and spends most of each lesson on the paper in front of him rather than a textbook. He starts with the mock or the end-of-topic test, works back through the questions that went wrong, and usually finds the same thing underneath: a shaky grip on rearranging or fractions that has been quietly costing marks since Year 10.

That discovery is rarely welcome news. He treats it calmly. A topic gets rebuilt from a simpler example, checked, then taken back to the exam question in the same hour so the student can see the fix working where it counts. Lessons are recorded and the notes are written up with a method for each question type, which gives a student something real to revise from between sessions rather than a blank page and good intentions.

He is patient with the parts people feel silly asking about. A Year 13 student who differentiates confidently but freezes halfway through an algebraic fraction will not be made to feel the question is beneath them, because those marks are worth the same as any others on the paper. Daniel also covers mechanics and statistics for AQA and Edexcel, and he spends time on the longer problem-solving questions near the back of the paper, where reading the question properly matters as much as the method.

Parents see what was covered and what to practise next in the progress report, and Daniel writes his section with the mock timetable in mind, so revision has somewhere to go.