"We contacted Curtis in late May 2026 to secure a GCSE Science tutor for Year 11 for our Autistic son. We were motivated to secure a science tutor early as they are in short supply. Our son is bright but struggles with working memory and some language issues. He had also missed some school so he had gaps in his learning. He wants to be an engineer so securing science GCSEs is essential.
Our son went from a Grade 3 GCSE Foundation Double Science to a Grade 4 within 6 weeks of Curtis beginning tutoring with him. It gave our son a huge confidence boost to pass his summer mocks after a short period of intervention. Curtis is an excellent science tutor in ways that are quite difficult to explain. He is extremely thorough in a neurodivergent way which is totally necessary for our son. He's able to adapt teaching style and deploy post-its, written work, and other versatile learning techniques and he understands what actually works in terms of getting the best out of a student and also being able to retain information.
We are using the CGP science revision books and Curtis sets and marks the homework every week so we don't have to get involved in monitoring progress. He focuses on what's gone wrong with questions and corrects them, he requests mock exam papers and analyses areas of weakness to target them. He's very popular with our son which is an achievement and is mentoring him through exams as well as tutoring science.
He's a very accomplished Science teacher (PGCE Secondary Science with Chemistry, up to A-Level). He's animated and very enthusiastic about his subjects and students.
Curtis works at a very high standard as a teacher, tutor and person, we are lucky to have found him to nurture our son through GCSEs and reach the goal of getting those science GCSEs."
Mother of a 15-year-old child with ASC and PDA profile, who I have been working weekly with since May 2026