Fiveways Maths Tutoring

Fiveways Maths Tutoring is a private tutoring service operated by Jesse, a former software engineer. Jesse holds an Enhanced DBS check and earned an MSc in Computer Science with Distinction and a First Class law degree (LLB), both from Birkbeck, University of London. Tutoring covers A-Level, GCSE and Key Stage 3, with lessons offered online and in-person. Lessons are one-to-one and bespoke, supporting young and adult learners across Brighton & Hove, including those sitting exams at all levels and for all exam boards such as Edexcel, AQA, and Cambridge OCR.

Tutoring also assists adult learners, students with additional needs such as SEND or SpLD, and those preparing for GCSE resits, Functional Maths qualifications, returning to maths, or home schooling. Jesse volunteers as an A-level maths tutor for Tutor the Nation and as a GCSE maths tutor for The Access Project.

Based in Fiveways, Brighton, Jesse tutors students from schools including BHASVIC, Brighton College, Patcham High School, and Cardinal Newman College. The tutoring approach involves meeting students where they are, making careful and continual assessments, creating a welcoming non-judgemental space, breaking down topics into clear chunks, guiding and listening rather than lecturing, planning every session in advance with bespoke materials, and discussing and tracking goals, progress, and special requirements with students, parents, and teachers.

Fiveways Maths Tutoring, based on Ashford Road in the Fiveways area of Brighton, is run by a tutor named Jesse covering primary maths through to A-level. One consistent note in reviews is a calm, patient manner that parents say suits children who find the subject stressful, including two brothers first taught during a Covid lockdown when parents were struggling to explain abstract concepts themselves. Several reviewers mention confidence growing steadily over a course of weekly sessions, with positive feedback from school teachers noted independently by more than one family.

Reviewers repeatedly describe lessons tailored to what a specific pupil needs that week, rather than following a fixed scheme, and more than one parent mentions a significant jump in results, including an A* achieved at the end of Year 12. The tutoring style is described as collaborative rather than lecturing, with teenagers responding well to an approach that avoids feeling too much like school. Sessions are available across the whole week, without fixed opening hours restricting when families can book, which several reviewers mention as convenient when working around school timetables and other commitments during busy exam periods.