Tutor in Oxford

At Nurturing Tutors, we provide online tutoring for children in Oxford who need support in English and maths. In a city known for its academic reputation, we know Oxford parents want tuition that's genuinely effective, not just impressive on paper — and that's exactly what we focus on.

Families in Oxford choose us because we build confidence first: reading fluency, core maths skills, and the belief that a child can improve. Sessions run online, so your child gets a qualified, DBS-checked tutor without anyone travelling — and we work around school, clubs and family life.

If you're looking for a trusted tutor in Oxford, we offer structured sessions from early phonics through to SATs and 11+ preparation, tailored to your child's pace.

Oxfordshire has no state grammar schools, so the local 11+ conversation is almost entirely about independent day schools — Magdalen College School, Abingdon School, Oxford High School and Headington Rye Oxford among them. Each sets its own papers rather than sharing a consortium test: Magdalen College School combines online adaptive maths and reasoning with written creative writing, while Abingdon pairs computer-based English and maths with reasoning and an interview for almost every candidate.

Oxford also has an unusually high concentration of prep schools that prepare children to 13 rather than 11, so a good number of local children never sit an 11+ at all. Knowing which track your child's school is on changes what preparation is useful and when it should start — and families in the north of the county sometimes look at Buckinghamshire's grammar schools, which take out-of-county registrations for a test sat at the start of Year 6.

Alongside all of that, the national picture still applies: the Year 1 phonics screening check, the Year 4 multiplication tables check, and KS2 SATs in the May of Year 6. Our sessions work to whichever of these is actually relevant to your child, rather than assuming every family is preparing for an entrance exam.