Can anyone recommend a higher English tutor?

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Or point me to some good online / books which would help with upcoming exam

What area are you in? I had a great one in the ayrshire area

Not Ayrshire unfortunately.

Kimberley helped my daughter get an A for N5 English and a high B for Higher English (DD was like 2 points away from an A but didn't get her appeal). She's lovely and can do in person or online (we did online).

She's on first tutors (hope the link works). You will need to pay first tutors a registration fee to contact their tutors.

Always always always check their name against the GTCS. There was another tutor on First Tutors we initially got for DD who swore etc in the first zoom session and we later found out had a criminal record so we cancelled her and found Kimberley on the site and by checking her name against the GTCS register.

First Tutors were straight on it when we complained and banned tutor number 1 who later killed herself (we found out from local news). Don't mean to alarm you but please do not go for just anyone!

Kimberley is a genuine teacher in a renfewshire high school and she's also good with ASN.
https://www.firsttutors.com/uk/tutor/kimberley.english.english-foreign-language.study-skills/

Thanks this is really helpful. I hadn’t heard of gtcs register before. I just searched name of another teacher I was looking to use and he doesn’t seem to come up on register. Said he works at local private school. I know private schools don’t have to use same registers etc. but seems a bit strange

I'd expect private schools to still expect GTCS registration when employing someone. Definitely dodgy. Some teachers may not be on the register as they've retired or never got a job after completing their degree, but you want someone who knows the current curriculum, not the old curriculum or the English system. Good luck with your search.

Would you be able to send me the details of this tutor please? Also looking for one for Higher English in Ayrshire.

https://sites.google.com/kilmarnock-english-tuition.co.uk/home/home

Hi,

I teach English currently. Also mark Higher folio and RUAE for SQA.

Can run sessions remotely using Teams and OneNote.

Let me know if you're interested :)

There are lots of resources online too. If you google "higher english + macbeth" or + RUAE or whatever you will get links to pages created by schools/teachers to help their students. The Royal High School in Edinburgh for example has a 62 page pdf online for RUAE revision - that will apply to all candidates across the country. There are GLOW blogs on various texts, some teachers do YouTube as well.

Tutors are great and can work one to one with kids, we used them for our kids (Maths not English) but there is so much free online too.

It’s worth asking in your local Facebook billboard.

my kids respond better to in-person tutoring rather than online and news able to find good local tutors that way.