Improved Grades
GCSE & A-level
Call 020 7112 4832
Blog
How We Can Help – An Overview
At Excel in Key Subjects, we are passionate about ensuring that students reach their fullest potential. Modern education requires, amongst many other things, that students can effectively demonstrate the best of their abilities within the exam system. As every young person is different, they may not always be best served by the generic support provided by their school or college, which has to meet the demands of the entire school community. That is why we specialise in offering tuition and […]
A Season of Opportunities – Helpful Hints for your Teenager; and for the Parent as Well!
As young people look forward to the summer examinations, there are a few practical measures that a parent can take in order to keep them focussed. Most of these measures do not include spending money at all. The importance of the Christmas break is that it gives just enough time for young people to think and reflect on their current stage of progress and ask themselves honest questions about their level of preparedness for the summer examinations. They are in […]
How a good teacher inspired the author, Damian Thompson – 32 years later Peter Pegnall continues to deliver!
It is fascinating how much difference a good teacher can make in inspiring a young person. It is wonderful to experience that rare magic moment when it suddenly clicks’. Given the declining level of literacy in society, a time when employers are crying out that young people from Eastern Europe can write in better English than many of our young people, there has never been a better time to do all that is necessary to get young people writing. It […]
Back to the beginning of time! – All Saturday classes are now at Greenwich
It is a wonderful spectacle looking at the Thames from the foyer outside the Royal George in Queen Anne Court. When there isn’t a major box office film being shot on the lawns beside Trinity College of Music there are usually people enjoying a picnic. It is such a scene! For the last five years, we have had the privilege of being based in this magnificent building at the Royal Naval College in Greenwich. Three or so years before that, […]
Young and Old – Be inspired by Peter Pegnall – a Real Genius when it comes to Creative Writing
Workshop – Young and Older Two hours a week, for six weekly sessions; the sessions will develop exponentially, but it will be possible to join as the year goes on. The age range is from 12 to 18 and there will be an entrance requirement of a piece of prose, poetry or drama on a given range of subjects and styles. The sessions will consist of writing exercises, detailed scrutiny of individual efforts in any one of the three genres and […]
Testimonials from Nathanael and his father, Mr de Bernier
Nathanael Mr de Bernier
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe
It would be nice to sit back and just enjoy the summer break! Certainly, many A-level students who have prepared themselves and worked hard before the last summer examinations can afford to be more sanguine and worry less as they await the exam results at the end of August. Sadly for so many young people and their families, they have either given up hope as soon as they leave the exam room or they are hoping and praying for some […]
GCSE to AS level, the transition – the summer break, the freedom, the maturity and the challenges!
Last month it was reported that Michael Gove, the Education Secretary, was preparing to replace GCSEs for England from autumn 2014 and to bring in a simpler exam for less academic teenagers. This announcement comes amid the on-going debate about the “dumbing down of GCSE’s, the accusation being that they do not stretch the more academic students. Whatever the merits of these arguments and proposals, it is the case that many students find the step from GCSE to A Level […]
Should we bring back O-Levels from the grave? Or plod along with GCSE? The way forward
The current debate instigated by Michael Gove on whether to bring back the O-level by the secretary of state for Education, has once again aroused passion about the way our Education system is structured and how well it is working. Whenever the issue of educating young people comes up, one aspect which always comes to the fore is the class system, and the question of a two-tier system of education. I doubt whether there is much value in addressing education […]
Are young people being stretched? – The tragedy of low expectations
I have been indulging in one of my favourite activities in the last couple of days – speaking to parents about the progress of their children. We spoke about how they felt the revision help their sons and daughters received from us in preparing for their GCSE and A-level exams had gone. For me, it is what I enjoy doing and I am fortunate enough to be quite knowledgeable about secondary and higher education in Britain due to extensive experience […]
Success Tips
For your child's success, request it now.