Private tutoring instead of maths in school

[Keeks53]

My niece is in yr 10 coming up to her GCSE’s, but she is struggling with her Maths. The teacher is very one sided as in prefers to help those who don’t need much help.
can the LEA stop us from removing her from school to have private tutoring instead during this lesson block.. She needs to get a good grade for her college option, which she is unlikely to get with this teacher.
thanks for any advice

In general, it's possible to remove your child from school completely, and you also have the option to remove them from collective worship (basically religious assemblies if the school has them).

Otherwise no, as a parent you cannot take the decision to take your child out of a particular class.

Getting a tutor is a good idea, but is usually done after school or at weekends.

If the student and the teacher are really not meshing, then you could ask for them to be moved up or down a group.

The problem is going to be coordinating the tutor with the lesson days and times.

The norm is to have private tutoring for any subject where it is required outside normal school hours. So she needs to do the private tutoring after school or on weekends.

It's only if the tutoring is arranged by the school can it be done in school hours. This is why you hear of pupils being able to have music tuition, language tuition extra English tuition and extra Maths tuition during school hours.

Even then some of the tuition can happen at lunch time or after school to ensure the pupil doesn't consistently miss other lessons.

I'm a tutor. You'll find seeing a tutor once a week now will have a major impact on exams. Equally you'll find she will begin to understand more of what's happening in the lessons after a while. I love it when the kids go from feeling clueless in school lessons to feeling confident. It's the best

Thanks for the reply it’s really helpful. Are you a British tutor? I should have said we are in Wales when I posted 🙂

We did this with DS - he left early and did the tutoring from home. It was listed as "education of site"
We used Tayberry.org.uk and they were extremely helpful with the whole process - I'd have been lost without them tbh