Keystone as built its reputation on providing supplementary tutoring: filling in gaps in a child’s education. Using excellent tutors teaching one-on-one, Keystone can provide full time private tuition to support students effectively and efficiently, often teaching years of curriculum content in a few months.
Our homeschooling programmes are available at the student's home (if based in Central London) or online. Our full time private tuition is used by families whose children have special educational needs, who are experiencing bullying or periods of unhappiness at school, who travel regularly so can’t commit to traditional schooling or whose children are involved in sporting commitments which take up a lot of time. These are just some of the common examples but Keystone are able to provide help in the majority of other situations.
Keystone’s Homeschooling programme can support children in the primary years up to A Levels. Starting with an initial consultation, to find how best we can help, we put together a timetable based entirely on the student’s requirements, finding tutors with years of experience to help in each of the required subjects. Following this we offer weekly meetings with the students, half-termly reports and termly parents meetings to ensure that your student is making the progress required to reach their goals. Our homeschooling is typically arranged around normal school terms so the students get half-terms and holidays in line with schools but this can be adjusted depending on the requirements of each individual family.
"Homeschooling provides an opportunity to fill gaps in skills and knowledge more quickly and precisely than often possible in a conventional school setting. From my experience, the circumstances leading to a decision to embark on homeschooling are varied, but I have consistently found that the process can build up confidence in a meaningful way. I have worked with many homeschooling students where the opportunity to engage with Keystone’s homeschooling provision has enabled them to go on to perform successfully in exams, in their next schools, universities or careers."
Tom - Keystone Professional Tutor
Whilst your child is being homeschooled we appreciate the need to keep track of your child’s progress not only for your own information but also as a resource for any future schools or colleges that your child will go on to attend. Keystone Tutors tracks home-schooled students progress through a number of ways.
Each student has a weekly meeting with Poppy, Keystone’s Homeschooling Manager. This is done online and is around 15 minutes each week. It gives the student a chance to feedback on how their week has gone, how they are finding their lessons and to raise any issues or queries they may have. The idea behind this is to offer some form of pastoral support, as well as Poppy acting as a Director of Studies type figure. It builds up a rapport as well as ensuring your child meets someone other than their tutors each week.
Written reports are emailed out each half-term. Each tutor writes one, detailing what has been covered that term, how the student is doing and how they have been assessed. These are very useful for parents and guardians and can also be sent onto future schools who ask for school reports. Students will be assessed formally at the end of each term, as well as regular informal tests to track the progress.
At the end of each term we offer parents meetings – a chance for you as parents or guardians to have a 15 minute conversation with each tutor, where they can recap the terms achievements and what has been covered. It is a good opportunity to get to know the tutors and to raise any questions. These typically are done online unless lessons are taking place face-to-face.
Homeschooling can be a hugely beneficial step for many students. Students come to us as they are out of school for a variety of reasons, a few examples being; health related, unhappiness at current school, logistical reasons, extra-curricular activities that involve a lot of contact time or waiting for a school place.
A few of the benefits that homeschooling can provide:
"In my experience, homeschooling has been an amazing tool to bridge the gap between any schooling issues and getting students back into school.
There are many reasons why a students education might be behind where it should be. Changing schools internationally can leave gaps that might get missed. Large chunks of school can be missed for health reasons. Homeschooling can offer a completely personalised path back into the system. Courses can be designed from scratch for every individual student to specifically deal with their unique problem areas. Working one-on-one with talented tutors can quickly rebuild any lost confidence and spark passion for subjects that students previously might have loathed!
Homeschooling also offers the freedom to explore subjects in a much more flexible way, spending time diving deep into interesting areas that otherwise might be skipped over."
Tom - Keystone Professional Tutor
"My son’s journey has been amazing, and without your help and guidance I think we might have been struggling for much longer. He is ready for the next stage, both him and ourselves will always keep the fondest memories of you all."
“Poppy thank you. You have all been so amazing to my daughter. I cannot believe we are here at last and what a difference in a year. Thank you, thank you.”
“Ed has been absolutely outstanding in his support for our son. When he was out of school due to illness 6 months prior to GCSEs they provided a full suite of extremely professional tutors enabling him to achieve excellent results across the board."
Book an initial free consultation with our homeschooling team to hear how we can help.
