- Summer holiday tuition to prepare for September
- Small classes in a small school
- A week or two of half days
Maths – Summer 2026 dates
- GCSE maths mornings
- August 17-21st & 24-28th
- 9am-12.30pm, Monday to Friday
- 15 hours per week
- £600 per week (£40 per hour)
- A-level maths afternoons
- August 17-21st & 24-28th
- 1.30pm-5pm
- 15 hours per week
- £600 per week (£40 per hour)
Students attend one or both weeks.
For subjects other than maths, please contact us.
Pupils who arrive at the start of a new school year already familiar with the first half-term’s material – and with prior issues resolved – have a different experience of school. Lessons become revision rather than first exposure. Homework is faster. Mock exams in October feel reasonable rather than alarming.
Headstart in August is built around that principle.
Who it suits
- Pupils about to begin Year 10 — the start of the GCSE programme, where strong habits in the first term set the tone of the whole two years
- Pupils about to begin Year 11 — the final GCSE year, where every week from September counts
- Pupils about to begin Year 12 — the step up from GCSE to A-level, where the first term decides whether the rest of the course is comfortable or uncomfortable
- Pupils about to begin Year 13 — the final A-level year, with university offers in view
How the programme works
- One or two weeks in late August
- Monday to Friday, three hours per day
- Fifteen hours of tuition per subject per week
- Small groups of 3–4 (max 8)
- £600 per subject per week (£40 per hour)
Pupils attend one or both weeks across the fortnight, working specifically on the first term’s content for the coming year, and reviewing any gaps. Tutors use the pupil’s own school’s likely scheme of work where known.
Subjects most often requested
GCSE Maths, A-level Maths, A-level Biology, Chemistry and Physics — the subjects where the September step up is hardest.