Online Maths tutor & more
Josie C.
Friendly Maths & English Tutor | 10+ years experience
Hourly rate
£60/hr
Online Maths tutor & more
Friendly Maths & English Tutor | 10+ years experience
About
I'm a friendly and experienced tutor with 10+ years experience. I received straight A*s in my GCSEs, A*AA in my A-Levels (Maths, French & English) and recieved a BA in English from University College London (2:1), followed by an MA in Acting from the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. Alongside tutoring, I work as a freelance creative in the arts.
I've been teaching both Maths and English for 10+ years and have only ever received 5* reviews. I also have lots of experience working with young people as a theatre facilitator, for which I've been trained in Safeguarding (FAA Level 1). I've worked as a director at the Lyric Hammersmith, done four years of directing musical theatre residential camps for British Youth Music Theatre, and am an Emerging Associate for the National Youth Theatre.
I'm a positive and encouraging person who believes the first step in engaging a student is to make them feel comfortable.
I support my students to take charge of their own learning and will ask them to direct our sessions towards the areas they feel they need most support. I also encourage honest communication, so that students feel able to assert their needs as we continue through lessons. I work solely online, and suggest a short homework at the end of each lesson - unless students would not have the capacity to complete this.
£60/hr · 5 subjects · 19 levels
Subjects & pricing
Languages
- English Native
- French Conversational
Qualifications
Higher education
- BA (Hons) English Certificate checked · UCL · 2:1 (Upper second) UCL · 2:1 (Upper second) Certificate checked
- MA Acting Certificate checked · Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama · 2019 Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama · 2019 Certificate checked
Pre-degree
- A-level English Literature Certificate checked · A A Certificate checked
- A-level French Certificate checked · A A Certificate checked
- A-level Mathematics Certificate checked · A* A* Certificate checked
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- Dec 2025 ·imported from First Tutors
Bernadette
Josie is an excellent tutor, really lovely and bubbly but also incredibly gifted with her knowledge and profound insight for teaching Maths. My daughter has only just started learning with Josie but has already gone from slightly behind the high achievers in her class to outsmarting all of them with her growing confidence and rapid progression, this is all entirely due to Josie's tutoring. I cannot fault her, she is amazing and I am really, so very glad that we found her.
- Oct 2025 ·imported from First Tutors
Lisa
My children really enjoy their sessions with Josie and are going from strength to strength since they started with her. Josie has an amazing ability to teach in a relatable way and to build confidence. Thank you, Josie.
- May 2025 ·imported from First Tutors
John
Josie tailored her approach to our son's needs very thoughtfully. Her feedback after each session was comprehensive but clear. Josie had taken time out to prepare for each session and generally provided great support for our son. Thank you.
- Jan 2025 ·imported from First Tutors
Branca
Really lovely, flexible, knowledgeable and kind teacher. Very helpful with my daughter and I can already see the results seeping through. Thank you
- Sept 2024 ·imported from First Tutors
irina
Josie is very warm and likeable person, my son is always finishing the lesson feeling better and more knowledgeable and is going to school with more confidence - he is keen to study just a little bit more and that's because Josie is very patient and understanding.
- May 2024 ·imported from First Tutors
emanuele
Josie has been very supportive to my daughter who is currently in Year 11, doing her GCSEs. Josie has been tutoring my daughter for English GCSEs; my daughter from the very beginning started feeling more confident and reassured. Josie is competent and she has a very calm and engaging approach. She has demonstred high organisational skills and flexibility. My daughter has benefited from lessons with Josie also in Classical Civilisations, improving her grades and her confidence. I would definately recommend Josie!
- Sept 2023 ·imported from First Tutors
Maura
Josie is tutoring my non-native English speaker daughter (second grade), who is struggling with writing in English (phonetics). I highly recommend Josie. She is an excellent teacher, very patient and approachable and with her my daughter opened up very quickly. My daughter really enjoys her classes and looks forward to them. Thanks to Josie my daughter has already made remarkable progress and her confidence in English has increased. We are happy to have found such a great teacher.
- Mar 2023 ·imported from First Tutors
Helen
Josie is excellent, my 3 children have improved so much since she has been their tutor in year 11. My 2 daughters were not confident in maths and she has given them confidence. She is friendly and clear and importantly they can access her teaching method. I am confident that my son will get a higher grade than predicted now too. Very happy!
- Jul 2022 ·imported from First Tutors
Charlotte
Josie has proved a wonderful find and I can't recommend her highly enough. She has tutored my 16 year old daughter on-line through from mid-way through Year 10 right up to GCSEs, initially for Maths only and latterly for some targeted intervention on specific parts of the English CGSE curriculum. She has proved very effective, and has also been warm, engaging and kind, which has really helped the learning process. We have actually recommended her to one of my daughter's friends and I know she and her family have also been very happy. My daughter was in Set 4 for Maths and was running at a GCSE prediction of 5/6. Since then she has steadily gained in confidence and ability, with Josie's support, and started performing really well in both her homework and assessments. She has ended up easily top of her set and on many tests was doing as well as Sets 1 and 2. We are of course waiting for results (fingers crossed), but her final prediction from the school was a Grade 8 and we hope that she should at least obtain a 7. She did I think have some innate mathematical ability, but Josie has given her the input and confidence to really unlock this to the stage where she has started enjoying the subject much more (although not to the point of wanting to do A Level, which at one point the school was suggesting!!). On English Josie gave some targeted support for the Shakespeare text and on Poetry. On the latter my daughter had a real blank spot to the point where she was giving good/reasonable responses in mocks and assessments on all other areas of English but was leaving Poetry questions completely blank. A few weeks before the exams Josie and I both did some targeted work with her on Poetry, with me running through the basics (Let's just at least read and have a chat about them!) and Josie doing the much more in-depth and focused work. This proved really effective and my daughter ended up being very happy with how this part of the paper went, commenting that by the end she actually quite enjoyed the Poetry piece and that 'Josie had made them really interesting'. Again I think Josie was able to build her confidence and break down some initial barriers. We have been very happy indeed with Josie's support and it has also been very helpful to have someone who can tutor in both Maths and English.
- May 2022 ·imported from First Tutors
Lisa
My son tells me that Josie immediately established a rapport and also that he is enjoying his online sessions with her.
- May 2022 ·imported from First Tutors
Pamela
Josie has greatly helped my daughters progress, we’re now approaching GCSE’s and her confidence and ability has really grown. Highly recommend Josie.
- Sept 2021 ·imported from First Tutors
AnneMarie
Josie is a patient and thorough tutor and helped my daughter from really struggling with maths to get a 7 at GCSE level. A really remarkable outcome given where we were.
- Nov 2019 ·imported from First Tutors
Natassja
Josie has been tutoring me in GCSE Mathematics for the past year. During this time she has demonstrated patience and understanding and proven skilled at explaining concepts to a neuro-atypical student. She is adept at identifying different ways to look at problems until she finds one that makes sense. Josie is adept with multiple modes of learning, including personal tutoring as well as online and over the telephone. She has been flexible in scheduling sessions, able to accommodate my own sometimes erratic schedule. I would not hesitate to highly recommend Josie as a tutor to any age group.
- Jun 2018 ·imported from First Tutors
Kate
Josie is a really great tutor. She understands the new GCSEs and knows how to support students who are about to take them. Josie is interactive, responsive, well prepared, reliable and very good with students. She helped my Y11 son with both his English Literature and English Language GCSEs. Josie understood how my son worked and his thinking processes. She was then able to help him 'translate' his ideas and thinking into strong exam answers. She was particularly good at helping him with exam technique.
- Sept 2017 ·imported from First Tutors
Sophie
Josie is great.
- Sept 2017 ·imported from First Tutors
Malgorzata
Josie was helpig my son with english in last academic year. The lessons was always interesting and she motivated my son to hard work using his natural interests. Friendly and professional always on time. Below is what my son think about lessons with Her. Josie was a great form tutor. She help me a lot in my education. She boosted my English skills super high ,I was set 3 at the beginning now I’m in set 1 which is amazing.My English teacher was wondering how I got so good at English .He was surprised when I volunteered to read.Josie also helped me a lot by using something like the Harry Potter series and asking me questions in-between the pages, and I also had to analyse the book which was an amazing idea! (which encouraged me to read more and when I didn’t understand a word I would search it up and would after use it in English tests) The good thing that I noticed as well is that some tutors or teachers are quite dull or sad looking but not Josie. She always came with a giant smile stuck on her face which made the atmosphere better to work in and made me smile as well SZYMON
- Aug 2017 ·imported from First Tutors
Mike
Josie is bright, friendly and professional. She was an excellent tutor who gave constructive and relevant support to my son enabling him to do well in his English GCSEs. I would thoroughly recommend her.
- Apr 2017 ·imported from First Tutors
Emer
Josie has been wonderful for my daughter, helping her with her maths GCSE preparation. She has been very professional, excellent at communicating & my daughter really feels she has improved with her help. Fully recommended.
- Feb 2017 ·imported from First Tutors
Wai
Very friendly and organized. My daughter found her lesson enjoyable and helpful.
- Dec 2016 ·imported from First Tutors
Rawa
Josie was great with my two young kids. She managed to get them focused and learn a lot during the tutoring session. I highly recommend her!