I am pleased to announce that alongside tuition for gcses, A Level, Cambridge Pre-U and specific learning difficulties, I am also offering coaching for the Professional Skills Literacy Tests for Teacher Training entrance.

Congratulations to Jess for being 'most improved English student' in her year at school. Fantastic effort.

To all my lovely students this year. Thank you so so much for choosing me as your tutor, I'm humbled by the faith you have in me. I can truthfully say that I've loved teaching every single one of you and you've completely made my job worthwhile. You all deserve to succeed because of your positive attitudes and amazingly hard work. Thank you again.

Last exam for gcse candidates on Monday. Good luck to all of you. Remember genre, audience, purpose in the writing section.

For all those people taking their fiction paper tomorrow, here are my top ten tips for good descriptive writing: 1. start in the middle of the action - in the middle of a conversation is good 2. make sure you plan a structure, panoramic, zoom-in or cyclic and a mood 3. include colours 4. include at least three different senses 5. use language features such as similes, metaphors and personification 6. qualify every noun with an adjective 7. choose verbs carefully so that they