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From first hello to first lesson, in four steps

Every family follows the same simple path, so we always know your child, your goals and your deadlines before the first lesson begins.

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How we welcome every family

  1. 1

    Tell us about your child

    Create a free account or start a purchase. We ask for your details, your child's name and year group, and what you want help with, so nothing has to be repeated later.

  2. 2

    A consultant calls you

    Within one working day, an education consultant confirms your child's goals, subjects and any deadlines.

  3. 3

    We match a tutor

    UK-trained, vetted tutors are matched personally to your child, never assigned from a list.

  4. 4

    Lessons begin, and you can see everything

    Your client portal shows lessons, tutor notes and receipts in one place, and your consultant stays involved as your child progresses.

What the research says about tutoring

These figures come from independent studies of tutoring in general. They are not Britannia Crown's own results, and effects vary with the quality of the tutoring.

+5 months
of extra progress over a year from one-to-one tuitionAverage from the Education Endowment Foundation's Teaching and Learning Toolkit. The EEF says this is for tuition that is high quality and linked to what is taught in class, and it is an average, not a promise for every pupil.Source: Education Endowment Foundation
+4 months
of extra progress from small-group tuitionAlso from the EEF's guidance on tutoring. One-to-one tuition is estimated to add about a month more than small groups.Source: EEF tutoring guide (2022)
0.29 SD
average gain across randomised controlled trials of tutoringA meta-analysis of experimental studies by Nickow, Oreopoulos and Quan found consistent, statistically significant gains. An earlier version of the paper reported 0.37 SD; the latest reports 0.29 SD. Effects were larger for teacher and paraprofessional tutors than for non-professional or parent tutors.Source: Nickow, Oreopoulos and Quan, NBER Working Paper 27476
98th
percentile: the classic finding on personal tutoringIn 1984 Benjamin Bloom reported that students taught one to one with mastery learning scored about two standard deviations above a conventional class, which puts the average tutored student above 98% of that class. It rests on a small number of studies and later work finds smaller effects, so treat it as an illustration of a large effect, not a forecast.Source: Bloom, B. S. (1984), Educational Researcher

What you get with Britannia Crown

Teaching built around your child

Lessons start from what your child already knows, so time is spent on the gaps, not on repeating what is secure.

A consultant, not just a tutor

Tutoring works best when it is linked to school work. Your consultant joins up lessons, exams, school choices and goals.

Everything in one account

Lessons, notes, receipts and your family's details live in your client portal, and you can buy more services from inside it.

Honest advice

We recommend what suits your child and explain why. No one can promise a particular grade or school place, and we will not pretend otherwise.

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