Tutor in Aberdeen

At Nurturing Tutors, we provide online tutoring for children in Aberdeen who need support in English and maths. Online sessions suit Aberdeen families particularly well — the city has an unusually mobile population, and a tutor who travels with you is worth having.

Families in Aberdeen choose us because we focus on confidence, reading fluency and core numeracy skills first, tailored to the Curriculum for Excellence work your child is doing in class.

If you're looking for a trusted tutor in Aberdeen, we offer structured online sessions from early phonics through to upper primary maths and English.

Aberdeen follows Curriculum for Excellence: P1 to P7, Early, First and Second Level, and Scottish National Standardised Assessments in P1, P4 and P7 rather than SATs. There is no phonics screening check and no multiplication tables check, and the standardised assessments are adaptive with no pass or fail.

Locally, Aberdeen talks about school "zones" rather than catchments, and uses a single online form whether you want your zoned school or a different one. A few details catch families out: to count as living in a zone your child needs to be resident there before mid-March, and priority runs from children newly resident in the zone, to siblings, to children in childcare with a provider who lives in the zone — so a childminder's address can genuinely matter. Waiting lists are cleared every year at the end of October and you have to reapply, and your position can move down as well as up, because a later in-zone applicant outranks an earlier one from outside.

Aberdeen has three Roman Catholic primaries with citywide zones, and no Roman Catholic secondary in the city at all. The independent schools assess in January and February for entry the following August: Albyn publishes its format in useful detail — around an hour and three quarters of computer-based maths, English and verbal and non-verbal reasoning for primary-age entry — while others describe age-appropriate assessments without publishing the papers. Aberdeen is also home to Scotland's longest-established international school, which runs the International Baccalaureate with rolling entry throughout the year, a reflection of how internationally mobile the city's families are.