For parents
The questions you came here with.
Straight answers to the things parents most often ask us in the first call.
How do you find the right tutor for my child?
We start with a free fifteen-minute consultation. Tell us the student, the subject, the exam board, and the goal. We then hand-pick a tutor from our vetted pool. You meet the tutor before any payment is taken.
How do you keep my child safe?
We only engage experienced teachers, and every tutor completes our Safer Recruitment process before they ever meet a student: an interview, a check that they hold legitimate qualifications, confirmation of teaching experience, written references requested directly from their referees, and an enhanced DBS check for UK-based tutors or a police certificate for those overseas, and mandatory safeguarding training. We have an Education Adviser and DSL, and a single confidential channel for safeguarding concerns. Read the full safeguarding approach.
How is progress tracked?
Your tutor builds a learning plan with you at the start. Progress is reviewed every half-term against that plan, not just at exam time. If something needs to change, we change it early.
Can my child change tutor if it is not working?
Yes. If a match is not working, we replace the tutor and handle the change ourselves. The student does not lose a lesson and is not charged again.
Where do the lessons happen?
In our purpose-built online classroom. It has an interactive whiteboard, native maths and chemistry tools, and lesson history, and it is built for teaching rather than for meetings.
Can parents join lessons?
Yes, at any time. Every lesson is also recorded for safeguarding and dispute resolution, and those recordings are held securely by Sophyra rather than shared with families, tutors or students. We review one only where we need to look into a safeguarding concern, a complaint or a dispute, or where the law requires it.
Want the detail on safeguarding? Read the full safeguarding approach.
Choosing a school as well as a tutor? Education Options, our sister advisory practice, guides families through school selection under the same safeguarding leadership.
Fees
Our fees.
Subject lessons are €100 for sixty minutes, at every level. Oxbridge interview and ESAT preparation are €150 for sixty minutes; UCAT preparation is €130. A termly enrolment reserves a weekly slot with the same tutor and is €1,000 for a ten-week term of ten lessons, billed once per term. Revision courses are €500 per student in a group of four, or €1,000 one to one, for five two-hour sessions. Business and Conversational English are €85 for sixty minutes. IELTS preparation for university applicants is available on enquiry.
Every engagement begins with a free fifteen-minute consultation, and for ongoing tuition there is no payment until you have met the tutor.
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Ready when you are.
Start with a fifteen-minute conversation.
Tell us the student, the subject, the exam board, and the timeline. We listen first.
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