Southampton Tuition Centre

Southampton Tuition Centre provides English, Maths and Science tuition for children aged 5 to 16 years. Jan Thomson-Long is the Chief Education Officer and Educational Consultant, and has been running the tuition centre in Southampton since 2010. She is a specialist dyscalculia and dyslexia teacher and assessor. The centre's teachers and staff are DBS checked, and the centre is Ofsted Registered.

Students are taught in small focused groups of 4, and the centre offers one-to-one attention from teachers. It provides an initial Educational Consultation and a personalised, detailed lesson plan. The centre caters for children with dyslexia or other educational requirements, and helps prepare children for their GCSE exams. Services are offered for Dyscalculic and Dyslexic students.

Southampton Tuition Centre draws on assessments and tuition that reviewers describe with real warmth. A recurring theme in the feedback is the work of Jan Long, whose testing for dyslexia and dyscalculia several parents highlight as thorough and clearly explained. One account describes four hours of assessment spread over two days, after which a diagnosis at nearly thirteen finally gave a family the answers they had been seeking.

More than one review highlights how at ease their children felt during the process, including one parent of an autistic daughter who notes that Mrs Long accommodated her child's needs and the social difficulties involved, managing to settle her in a new setting. The tuition side also comes in for praise: a parent recalls a daughter who was far behind in maths and English and who, after attending since the summer of 2012, grew in confidence to the point of enjoying the sessions, a striking change for a shy child. The centre's assessment and teaching work, and the reassurance it gives families, come through strongly.