Small-group tuition for GCSE and A-level.

Pupils attend Newbury Study Hall alongside their ordinary schooling or home education.

Short, intensive courses help students catch up or get ahead quickly.

Over the longer term, combining a state-school education with independent extra tuition is an alternative to a full-time private school.

Students aged 16+ may also study with us full-time or for single terms as an alternative to a large sixth form or college or to prepare for resits.

Programmes

An alternative to full-time independent school education

After school · Saturdays · Easter revision · Half-term intensives · August headstart · Single terms · Academic years · Resits · Home education

Welcome

Newbury Study Hall is an independent provider of extra GCSE and A-level tuition. Pupils are tutored in small groups, typically of three to four, and never more than eight.

Lessons are transformative additions to normal schooling. Added around ordinary school timetables, they cultivate the academic conscientiousness characteristic of a good education in pursuit of excellent results.

To succeed in exams
To develop a scholarly mind
To grow quietly confident

Programmes are open to pupils from all local secondaries and independents — Park House, Trinity, St Bartholomew’s, The Downs, Kennet, Cheam, Downe House, St Gabriel’s and others — as well as to home-educated children and to school leavers wishing to study A-levels in a smaller setting.

Newbury Study Hall is run by OISE, the Oxford-founded tutorial school established in 1973. Programmes for UK pupils were introduced in 2026 alongside the school’s longstanding work with international students.

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An alternative to independent schooling

Full-time independent school fees have moved beyond what many families can reasonably consider. Newbury Study Hall offers a different arrangement: state-school days complemented by small-group private tuition in the afternoons, on Saturdays and/or during holidays.

Pupils retain the social breadth of mainstream schooling while gaining the academic intensity, small classes and study habits more often associated with independent education. The total cost of a serious weekly programme remains a small fraction of full independent-school fees.

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Programmes

Pupils can attend a single subject once a week, several subjects on different days, or intensive revision weeks during school holidays and half terms.

Term dates align with local secondary schools, minus the first and last week.

Join anytime, space permitting
All fees based on £40 per hour

After School

Weekdays 16:30–18:00
15 hours per 10-week term
£600 per subject per term
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Saturday Mornings

Saturdays, 09:30–12:30
30 hours per 10-week term
£1,200 per subject per term
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Holiday Revision

Half terms, Easter, August
15 hours per programme
£600 per subject per week
Timetable & Dates

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The OISE tutoring style

OISE masterclasses are tutored, not taught. They tailor principles and techniques of the Oxford tutorial and Cambridge supervision systems to benefit teenagers facing exams.

Pupils not only address difficulties with topics already encountered, they pre-learn material their schools will soon teach. Arriving at school already familiar with new topics transforms school into revision.

Pupils should target a grade or more of improvement per term. Those attending throughout a GCSE or A-level programme should target top grades by exam time.

Tutors are highly demanding and deeply compassionate, ensuring every individual pupil feels understood and challenged.

Extra tuition can be an academic lifestyle choice — not a crisis response, but a fulcrum to leverage ordinary schooling into an exceptional education, sitting alongside sports and music lessons as a natural way to help children thrive.