TJ Tutors teaches English through a written method: named frameworks, a fixed lesson structure, and marking returned within 48 hours. Because it is written down, it can be taught, checked and repeated.
Apply For A Complimentary English DiagnosticThe same method from Year 4 to GCSE.
An hour with a good tutor can be excellent. But what is taught, how it is explained and what counts as a good answer usually lives in one person’s head, and changes from week to week.
Children are then left to infer the standard from feedback that moves. Parents are left to trust that it is the right work, without being able to see it.
We write the method down instead. Every child is taught the same frameworks, every lesson follows the same structure, and every piece of work is marked against the same standard.
Children are taught each framework explicitly, rather than being asked to infer what a good answer looks like.
A consistent approach to any question on an unseen text, from retrieving information to inference and a writer’s choices.
How to explain a writer’s effect in a sustained paragraph, rather than simply naming a technique.
Precise, controlled description that holds together over a whole timed piece.
The devices of argument, chosen and used deliberately rather than listed.
Engage, Develop, Master. A child always knows where they are in a lesson, and a parent always knows what a lesson is for.
Every lesson starts with a text or a question worth thinking about, so the skill has a reason to exist before it is taught.
The skill is taught through its framework, modelled, and practised with guidance until the child can explain what they are doing and why.
The child applies it independently through timed tasks and self-assessment, and submits the work to be marked.
Every piece of work your child submits is marked by a TJ-trained teacher and returned within 48 hours, with one named next step.
One next step, not a page of corrections, because a child can act on one thing. It is written, so your child can return to it and you can see exactly what was said about their work. The marking is where the lesson continues.
The frameworks a child learns for their entrance paper are the ones they use at KS3 and in their GCSE exams. Nothing has to be unlearned, and nothing starts again with someone new at each stage.
Reading unseen texts and writing under time, for selective grammar and independent entrance.
11+ EnglishAnalysis and sustained writing, including 13+ entrance, built before GCSE depends on them.
KS3 EnglishAQA and Edexcel English Language and Literature, and IGCSE, on the student’s own set texts.
GCSE EnglishLessons are taught live, not pre-recorded. Children work alongside a small cohort at the same stage.
Lesson recordings are visible only to that cohort, and are deleted 24 months after the programme ends. Opting out of recording is always offered, and never questioned.
Marking is returned in writing, and a dedicated Parent WhatsApp group carries programme communication and weekly resources.
No maths, no verbal reasoning. One subject, taught to one standard.
TJ Tutors was founded by Tom Harrop — MA Creative Writing, PGCE, Qualified Teacher Status since 2018, and a trainer of teachers.
He wrote the method the school teaches, and trains the teachers who deliver it. That is the point of writing it down: the standard belongs to the method, not to any one person.
Every new family begins with a Complimentary English Diagnostic Assessment, marked the same way every piece of programme work is marked. The findings are yours to keep, whether or not your child joins us.
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