Tutor in Chester

At Nurturing Tutors, we provide online tutoring for children in Chester who need support in English and maths. Chester families often have more school options than they realise — and a few more complications too, sitting as the city does right on the Welsh border.

Families in Chester choose us because we focus on confidence, reading fluency and core maths skills, delivered patiently and without pressure. Our tutors adapt every session to your child's pace and learning style.

If you're looking for a trusted tutor in Chester, our online sessions cover everything from early phonics to KS2 SATs and independent school entrance preparation.

There are no state grammar schools in Cheshire West and Chester, so selective entry here splits two ways. Locally it means the independent schools: The King's School assesses at 11 with an online paper covering English comprehension, maths, non-verbal reasoning, creative comprehension and problem solving, plus a handwritten English paper and a short interview in mid-January, with registration closing a week before. The Queen's School runs a full assessment day in mid-January — around two hours of computer-based English, maths, verbal and non-verbal reasoning, alongside team activities and lunch with current pupils, and it sends out vocabulary and reading lists in advance.

The other route is across the Mersey. Wirral's grammar schools are a realistic distance from Chester, admitting through a test sat in the September of Year 6 with registration closing the previous spring — but you register with Wirral and then apply through your own authority, which catches families out every year.

The most Chester-specific complication is the Welsh border. You cannot name a school in Wales on a Cheshire West and Chester application — families wanting a Flintshire school apply directly to that authority instead, and it works the same way in reverse. Anyone living towards Saltney or Broughton will recognise this immediately. Worth knowing too that catchment areas here give priority but no guarantee, and church schools generally use parish boundaries rather than catchments, which can cover a surprisingly wide area.