Meet Natalie

I've known Natalie and her work for many years, especially in the use of poetry for health and wellbeing. She's warm, empathetic and understands how to convey ideas in an accessible and friendly way. She's also organised, conscientious and her love of language shines through. Highly recommended.

Natalie is an excellent teacher with a deep understanding of how to support both adults and young people with special educational needs. Her ability to tailor learning experiences to a wide range of skill levels ensures that every individual feels seen and valued. She provides an inclusive environment where each person is nurtured within the group. I have worked with Natalie on two community projects and can attest to her ability to welcome learners and adapt sessions in accordance with their needs.

Natalie is self-motivated and diligent, always working to the highest of standards. She has extensive experience supporting students with a range of special education needs, both in class environments and through 1:1 supervision on and offline. Natalie adopts a student-centred approach, adapting her teaching and support methods to the individual student. The feedback from students has been overwhelmingly positive in this regard. She is friendly and patient, working well individually or as part of a team.

Working with Natalie was a transformative experience for me. Her knowledge of poetry is matched only by her ability to inspire confidence and creativity. With a gentle yet insightful style, she helped me begin to unlock my own voice, refine my technique, and truly feel the power of my words. Engaging and encouraging, I cannot recommend Natalie enough!

Natalie was an exceptional mentor for me during the process of creating my FMP. She was easy to talk to about my ideas and process, and provided much-needed information and advice, including background reading and technical insights. I thoroughly enjoyed sharing my ideas with them, especially when I was stuck for choice and they offered new ways for me to think around my creative roadblocks. I am glad to have worked with her.

Since having tuition with Natalie, Sophie’s confidence and understanding of both English language and literature has grown immensely. It has also helped with the other subjects she is studying too. Many thanks Natalie.

Natalie was an excellent English tutor who quickly understood Georgia's GCSE needs and helped her to develop her skills and confidence. Georgia found the one-to-one weekly sessions very helpful in particular when discussing work done at school and producing a model answer. She also found the application of Natalie's methods to understand and produce a correct interpretation of the question very useful in producing a more improved and appropriate response. Natalie is a very pleasant, calm and approachable tutor. She was very flexible regarding the re-scheduling of sessions when necessary. The homework set each week was very constructive in boosting Georgia's learning. We would fully recommend Natalie's services.

Natalie has tutored both of our children. She has been so helpful to our daughter Alice in her second year of A level English Lit Lang and helped her progress from a poor E grade at AS level to a couple of marks off an A grade at A2 level. Alice got so much out of her sessions with Natalie, and the techniques she learnt helped her enormously. She achieved 98% in one of her English papers and we think this is largely due to the analytical approach she had learnt from Natalie. We were so impressed and thankful that we returned for Natalie's support for our son Tom in the run-up to his GCSEs. A very different student to his older sister, he too really enjoyed his sessions with Natalie and got so much out of it. He has gone into his exams confident and felt they went well, so we could ask no more. Thank you so much Natalie for your wonderful approach.

Natalie is very professional, punctual & an inspiration to those that do not find the English subject naturally as clear as other academic topics. My daughter's confidence not only in English but across other subjects that involve essay writing/answers has improved significantly under Natalie's expert tutelage. The tutoring sessions have meant that she is now focused on structure/content in all subjects along with social interaction also.

Natalie helped me to achieve an A in A level English Language ( 3 off an A*). I really enjoyed her lessons and feel they contributed greatly to my success! I highly recommend Natalie as a tutor. Thanks so much!

Natalie has always been supportive and encouraging because she accepts what I have to say or write with an open mind and an open heart. Whilst accepting, she is still able to question in such a way as to enable me to consider options and expand my work where appropriate. Critical help is always constructive. Answering questions and returning marked work is always timely. I always sensed that she was interested in my work and genuinely wanted to enable me to be the best I could.

Whilst Natalie hasn't taught me as such, her input to my work through editing and overall her warmth, inclusivity, openness to it and encouragement of it suggest to me she will bring all of that to her teaching, recognising individuals.

Natalie is a fantastic tutor with good knowledge of syllabus and exam requirements. She identifies the weaknesses of student and is able to provide precise and effective guidance and instructions which have helped my son to gain insight and confidence in the subject. Natalie is organised and prepared before lessons as always. I am very grateful for Natalie’professional attitude and would highly recommend to her.

Natalie is helping our autistic son with his English. She is very kind, patient, helpful and professional. Our son enjoys Natalie’s lessons and is excited to see her every week. He has been having lessons with Natalie for 3 years now and his progress has been enormous! Also he is much more confident and happier. Natalie is the best tutor and I highly recommend her.