Where to find a tutor (primary)

[ojbsmum]

Hi,
I hope you can give me some advice.
If you were wanting a tutor to help your primary aged child, where would you look to find one?

I'm a teacher on maternity leave and would like to do some tutoring when DH is at home to look after DS. If it goes well, I'm hoping it will bring in enough money I will be able to stay at home fulltime, minimum 4 tutees a week would be enough so should be achievable... However, I'm not sure how/where to go about advertising myself.
In the past, I did a leaflet drop in a likely area but that only brought one response. Happily that led to more through word of mouth recommendations but would like to do something more effctive!

i found mine through an agency as she had just returned to tutoring. TBH though she gets all her business now through word of mouth. At my daughters secondary school, some advertise in the termly newsletter.

Our tutor charges 22.50 per hour and she does 2 afterschool sessions a night plus the occaisional saturday morning (she does GCSE maths and science tutoring as well- very popular on a saturday). This is on top of a full time teacing post- she is saving up for a fabulous retirement!

Might be worth considering, if you do not want to go down the agency route, local paper small ads, doing some flyers around the local area or local shops? Honestly if you are decent you would only need to do this once. Word of mouth will bring you in enough business for years!

Ah, I was going to say word of mouth, assuming you were looking for a tutor. I found DSs when the word-of-mouth tutor was full but she had a list of others in the area and recommended him.

Thanks for the quick replies.
I know word of mouth will work really well for me, as it has in the past in a different area. It's just the getting known by one or two people first so that that can happen that's a little tricky!

I think I'll start with cards in shops etc first then maybe leaflets while I'm out walking with DS after half term. Not sure any of the local primary schools would be keen to advertise tutors in their newsletters to be honest, but I may ask if I can leave some flyers with the office staff or PTA?

Any other ideas?

sometimes, if you ring the academic private schools in your area and say you are interested in the school for your child (whether or not you are) but feel they might need a bit of tutoring to get in, they will recommend a tutor!

whoops - shd hv read yr first post and not just the title of the posts. didn't realise you WERE the tutor! apologies.