KS3 · GCSE · Additional Maths · A Level · Further Maths
Twenty years in secondary classrooms. One-to-one online tuition for families. Cover, intervention and digital transformation for schools.
Part one
One-to-one online tuition, booked directly with me. Weekly slots in term time, with occasional intensive work before exams.
Courses
Every course below is one I have taught to exam classes, not just revised from a textbook. Tell me the board and the paper and I'll work from that specification.
YEARS 7 TO 9 · KEY STAGE 3
Where the trouble usually starts. Most students who struggle at GCSE lost the thread somewhere in Key Stage 3 — negative numbers, fractions, or the first year of algebra — and then spent three years building on it. Fixing that at thirteen is far easier, and far cheaper, than fixing it at sixteen. Two students at the same level can be taught together.
EDEXCEL 1MA1 · AQA 8300 · OCR J560
Higher and Foundation. The work is understanding why a method works and why a wrong method fails — that is what stops the same mistake coming back in June. No rote memorising; the aim is a student who can start a question they have never seen before.
AQA L2 FURTHER MATHS 8365 · OCR FSMQ 6993
The bridge between GCSE and A Level, taken alongside GCSE by students who find the Higher paper straightforward. It introduces calculus, matrices and proof a year early, and the students who do it well arrive in Year 12 already fluent in the algebra that catches everyone else out.
PURE · MECHANICS · STATISTICS
Seventeen years teaching the A Level course, all three strands, with Edexcel and AQA in particular. Alongside the content we work on exam technique and on setting work out clearly, so an examiner can award every mark the method has earned.
CORE PURE · OPTIONAL MODULES
Core Pure plus the optional Further Mechanics, Further Statistics and Decision routes. Suited to students taking Further Maths alongside A Level Maths, and to those aiming at maths, physics, engineering or economics degrees.
Sessions
Sessions are on Microsoft Teams with a graphics tablet, so you see the working appear the way it would on a whiteboard. A student needs a reliable connection, a laptop or tablet, and paper. Face-to-face tuition at your home is available within reach of Aylesbury — the rate depends on the travel, so ask for a quote.
Tuition fees
All sessions are 60 minutes and run at the same weekly slot in term time. Everyone books the same thing — what you choose is how you pay for it. The introductory call is free.
Option one
An invoice each week for the session ahead. Sensible if you are starting out, or you don’t yet know how many weeks you will need.
Option two
One invoice covering ten weekly sessions, at a lower hourly rate. Sensible once you know the tuition is working and you are running to an exam date.
Every rate below is for a 60-minute session, online or in person, taught one-to-one unless the row says otherwise. The hourly rate is what you pay week by week; the block is ten of those same sessions, paid up front.
| Course | Per hour | Block of 10 | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| KS3 Maths | £50 | £460 | Years 7 to 9. The number and algebra the GCSE is built on. |
| KS3 paired session two or more students |
£35 each | £310 each | Siblings or friends at the same level, taught together in one hour. |
| GCSE Maths | £60 | £560 | Higher or Foundation, any board. |
| Additional Maths | £65 | £620 | AQA Level 2 Further Maths, OCR FSMQ. |
| A Level Maths | £75 | £710 | Pure, Mechanics and Statistics. |
| Further Maths | £80 | £760 | Core Pure and optional modules. |
| Face-to-face tuition in person, at your home |
from £100 | on request | Any of the courses above, taught in person. The rate depends on how far I travel — ask and I’ll quote for your postcode. |
Payment is by bank transfer only for now; account details are sent with your first invoice. Sessions cancelled with less than 24 hours' notice are charged in full.
Part two
Two things: specialist maths cover and intervention, booked directly rather than through an agency; and end-to-end digital transformation for school leaders, run by a teacher rather than a vendor.
Services and rates
Cover, intervention and departmental support, booked directly with me. Twenty years teaching maths, a department managed, and CPD and INSET delivered to colleagues — so your students get a subject specialist from the first period, and your department gets someone who already understands how the week fits together.
Every figure below is a starting point. What moves it: travel beyond Buckinghamshire, the length of the commitment, group sizes, and the scope we agree. You get a fixed quote in writing before anything is booked.
| Service | What's included | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Day-to-day specialist cover | KS3–KS5 taught from set work, full timetable, duties as agreed. | from £290 / day from £150 half day |
| Long-term cover 4 weeks or more |
Full responsibility: planning, marking, data, reports, parents' evenings. | from £310 / day |
| A Level & Further Maths cover | Sixth-form specialist teaching, including Mechanics and Statistics. | from £350 / day |
These sit in the same band as standard agency day rates for cover — the difference is that you get a maths specialist who can teach the A Level and Further Maths groups as well as KS3, booked directly and back the following week if you want the same person.
| Service | What's included | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| In-school one-to-one | Diagnostic assessment, targeted sessions, progress notes back to the class teacher. | from £55 / hour min. 3 hours per visit |
| Small-group intervention 2–6 students |
Grade 4/5 borderline, resit cohorts, grade 7–9 stretch, Year 6 to 7 catch-up. | from £75 / hour |
| Intervention day | Up to five timetabled sessions, one-to-one or groups, in a single visit. | from £350 / day |
| 10-week GCSE programme | Baseline test, ten hourly sessions for up to six students, resources, closing report. | from £850 / group |
| Revision and booster days | Easter, half-term or Saturday exam preparation for up to 25 students. | from £550 / day |
| Online intervention | Live sessions via Teams, for pupils in school or working from home. | from £50 / hour 1:1 from £65 / hour groups |
| Service | What's included | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Department consultancy | Mock analysis, scheme-of-work review, setting up Further Maths, lesson observation and coaching. | from £450 / day from £250 half day |
| INSET and CPD | Exam technique, teaching for understanding, delivering Further Maths in a small department. | from £650 / day from £375 half · from £225 twilight |
Digital transformation
Most edtech consultants come from a vendor or an IT background. I have run this from inside a school, as a teacher, alongside a full timetable — so the plan survives contact with a Tuesday morning.
I led the introduction of Google Workspace for Education across a grammar school, staff and students: INSET day training, ongoing CPD, student sessions, assemblies and the launch communications that carried it. I have worked with departments on using Outlook and Microsoft Teams properly, and on OneNote for Education for planning, marking and feedback. Alongside that, I bring in edtech tools where they earn their place and take them out where they do not.
The difference is the combination. Rollouts fail on adoption, not on technology — and adoption is a teaching problem. I hold PRINCE2 and Lean Six Sigma certifications and a cybersecurity certification, so the project runs to a method and the data protection questions get answered before your DPO asks them.
Every figure below is a starting point. What moves it: travel beyond Buckinghamshire, the length of the commitment, group sizes, and the scope we agree. You get a fixed quote in writing before anything is booked.
| Service | What's included | Rate |
|---|---|---|
| Digital readiness review | A day in school and a written roadmap: platforms in use, staff confidence, workflows, risks and a prioritised plan. | from £750 |
| Platform rollout Google Workspace or Microsoft 365 |
End to end: discovery, plan, pilot, migration, staff INSET, student training, launch comms and post-launch clinics. | from £4,500 per project, scoped after the review |
| Digital INSET or CPD | Google Workspace, Teams, Outlook workflows, OneNote for Education, or an edtech tool you are adopting. | from £750 / day from £425 half · from £275 twilight |
| Department workflow clinic | One department, one afternoon: communications, planning, marking and feedback in Teams and OneNote. | from £425 |
| Student digital skills | Assemblies and year-group sessions: accounts, digital citizenship, and using the tools for learning rather than for chat. | from £550 / day |
| Retained digital adviser | A day a month across the term, with email and phone support between visits. | from £2,100 / term |
Rates are for direct booking. A readiness review is the usual starting point — it is a fixed price, it produces something you can take to governors, and it makes any larger project scopeable rather than speculative.
Booking
About
I have taught secondary mathematics since 2006 — fourteen years at a comprehensive school in Hertfordshire, and since 2020 in grammar and independent schools across Buckinghamshire and Hertfordshire. Across those years I have taught every ability from Year 7 to Year 13.
Alongside the teaching I have managed a maths department, and I have led CPD and INSET for teaching colleagues — on exam technique, on teaching for understanding, and on getting Further Maths off the ground in a small department. Running a department teaches you where a cohort quietly loses marks, which is a different kind of knowledge from knowing the syllabus.
Over that time I have helped students reach top grades at GCSE and A Level, and go on to read mathematics and related subjects at leading universities — including plenty who arrived convinced they were "not a maths person". That belief is usually the first thing we have to fix.
Away from teaching I'm a father of two. I love music, and I cycle, play football and run. I haven't run a marathon yet. It's on the list.
Terms
These cover private tuition booked by families. Schools are sent a separate engagement letter. The points that come up most often are below — or download the full terms as a PDF.
Sessions begin and end at the agreed time. If a student joins late, the session still ends at the scheduled time. A session missed without notice is charged in full.
Payment is in advance, on invoice, to Gabeth Limited trading as Gabeth Education Consultancy. Sessions may be booked individually or as a block of ten. If an invoice is unpaid by its due date I may pause future sessions until the balance is settled.
Please give at least 24 hours' notice to cancel or reschedule; inside 24 hours the session is charged in full. If I need to move a session I will give as much notice as I can and offer an alternative time. In a genuine emergency on either side, we will sort out a replacement session.
Students need a reliable internet connection, a computer or tablet, and Microsoft Teams. If a technical fault stops a session going ahead, it is rescheduled at no extra cost.
Anything shared in a session stays confidential and is used only to support the student's learning. Personal information is not passed to anyone else without consent. Sessions are not recorded or shared by either side without the agreement of both.
I will prepare thoroughly and teach well. No tutor can guarantee a particular grade, and I don't. My liability is limited to the value of the sessions booked.
Get in touch
Families: tell me the year group, the exam board and what's proving difficult, and we'll start with a free 20-minute call.
Schools: tell me the cover dates or the cohort you need to shift, and I'll come back with availability and a quote.
Already spoken to me?
Four minutes, and it gives me everything I need to plan the first session. Have the student’s own email address to hand — that is where the Microsoft Teams invitations are sent.