Experienced English teacher with 32 years in UK secondary schools, teaching and examining GCSE (AQA and Edexcel) and A level Literature (OCR).

Lydia has worked with both my children over the years. They are very different but both enjoyed working with her and found her sessions massively useful. She recently helped with GCSE exam preparation, identifying and working on performance gaps. This really helped with exam day confidence and happily paid off in results too!

Lydia Tutored my daughter for GCSE
She made a real difference to her confidence in English Language & Literature , and introduced a love for the subject .
Through an organised no nonsense approach they vastly improved her final GCSE result by 2 grades

We are very grateful to Lydia for guiding our daughter through her GCSE English language and Literature over the last year.

We found her to be methodical and her resources well put together, with strong developmental feedback given. My daughter found the way Lydia explored themes, techniques and characters really helpful. Together they created detailed revision flashcards, model essay answers and Lydia‘s passion for literature was definitely contagious! Lydia gave good predictions for the Literature paper questions and lots of scaffolding to improve essay writing.

Our daughter is dyslexic and her school did not have an appropriate teacher for the first term of year 11. Lydia was able to complete any missing input and keep us on track.
She is highly emotionally intelligent, coaching as well as teaching our daughter, who felt very confident going into the exams.

Mrs Livingston was my teacher for my Alevels from 2023-2025. She provided in depth discussion points and encouraged both an analytical and enjoyable instruction on the texts we studied. With her teaching, I was able to achieve an A* in my English Literature Alevel under the OCR exam board.