French tutor in North West London? Urgently needed!

[mikulkin]

My DS is very far behind in the programme. He didn't study French before Y6 (we relocated from abroad) and somehow I missed that he never actually learned it properly since then (he is now finishing Y7). He is a bright boy and has secured a place in two really good schools for 13+ entrance but I am afraid he is going to fail CE on French. We need a good tutor as soon as posssible!
I feel like a bad parent because I always check his progress but since I don't speak French I never realised how far behind he is.
thanks!

Did you find somebody? We used a great tutor who lives in N4 but will travel. He turned my DS around and helped him to pass for a good school at CE. I'm not sure of the etiquette here - maybe best to PM me if you want details?

Why don't you ask your prep school teacher to give him some one on one help? They will know his background, current level and how he learns. The CE french syllabus is very prescriptive (yawn!) - learn these topics and the associated grammar and vocab and you can pass. Get the French revision guide and practice exercises (and answers!) from galore park and you will see what I mean. IME it all comes together in year 8 when they spend lots of time practising. Don't panic and communicate with your prep school. It's in their interests to get your ds upto scratch.

Where are you? I have a brilliant one in EN5.

Thanks to all. Mothersanonymous, I will pm you now.
Moominmammacat, I am in NW, so this will be too far I guess for tutor to travel.
09870987, our prep school warned all teachers not to promote any tutoring - they are very careful. I wanted to get him a general tutor when we moved to England and was told they can't recommend anybody. I ended up tutoring him myself and that worked very well except for French, which I don't know (and guilty to admit tried to learn in UNI with no success whatsoever! - maybe it is genetic :)). I am panicking because he is doing so well in all other subjects. Latin is no problem for him for example, but with French he felt he was behind the programme and made no effort whatsoever...

If it's for CE I can highly recommend the Galore Park 'So you really want to learn French' series of books. I worked through these with my DS and it turned his French around.

Bit late off the mark but my sister has been waxing lyrical about Prepschooltutor.co.uk for just French, I think. Looks quite professional. Anyone know any Maths tutors?! Quite interested in online tutorials..

@moominmammacat, i know this is an old thread but i hope you or anyone else sees and responds. I really would appreciate the teacher's details. i am in N11 and desperately in need of a good french tutor for DC ages 10, 13 and 15. Anyone with any leads?

@tigermum Have you found a tutor for your children? I know it is an old thread but I came across it. I am a native French speaker and mother of 4, I have many years experience tutoring at various levels and preparing students for GCSE.