About Sound Footing Tuition: graduate tutors, fair fees

Sound Footing Tuition began with a head of sciences and a stack of marked past papers. Our founder had run a science department in a large secondary school and kept meeting the same problem: a bright sixth former two marks short of a university offer, with nobody free to sit down and find the missing two marks. Evening lessons, one student at a time, online with a shared whiteboard, did what the timetable could not. Parents passed the number on. We have taught that way ever since.

The team grew slowly. Every tutor is a graduate with a degree in the subject they teach, and the sciences sit under the same head of sciences who started the thing, so an A-level chemistry lesson follows a scheme argued over by people who teach it every week. We cover maths, English and science for school pupils aged 7–18, including 11+ entrance, GCSE and A-level exam preparation. Lessons are one-to-one, either online or at home, and every tutor is DBS-checked and qualified.

Fees stay lower than most face-to-face agencies, because there is no travel to bill for and no agency sitting in the middle. What you get in return is written down. Each lesson ends with a short record of what was covered and what was set, and parents get progress reports naming the topics secured and the papers attempted. Book a block, see how the first month goes, then decide.