Alice J - Tutors - Keystone Tutors
Alice
Alice is an Oxford graduate with a passion for academia and learning. She enjoys working with children across the age range and can also help with Oxbridge preparation. Alice is completing a PhD in archaeology alongside her tutoring work and has delivered 3,500 hours of lessons with Keystone families.
Alice is an employed Keystone tutor. This means Alice:
- Engages with Keystone's bespoke professional development programme
- Works exclusively for Keystone on a fully employed basis
- Is committed to tutoring as a career and profession
“He now looks forward to his time with Alice and even shares his learnings with us! It’s beautiful that she has achieved one of the highest goals we set out, to ignite and engender his love of learning.”
I have successfully prepared students for St Mary’s Ascot, Latymer Upper, JAGS, Francis Holland Sloane Square, Francis Holland Regent’s Park, Queen’s College, Queen’s Gate, Kew House School, Putney High School, Surbiton, City of London, KCS Wimbledon, Brighton College, Dulwich College, Harrow, Highgate, South Hampstead, Channing, North London Collegiate, City of London School for Girls, Eton and St Paul's.
I am also able to provide tutorials covering the following:
- 7+ English & Maths: public school entrance exams
- 8+ English and Maths: public school entrance exams
- 11+ English and Maths: ISEB and public school exams, including pre- tests
- (I)GCSE Latin, Ancient Greek, History, and History of Art (All exam boards)
- A-level Latin, Ancient Greek, History, and History of Art (All exam boards)
- Oxbridge preparation
- Interview preparation
- Study skills
I have completed Keystone’s in-depth 7+/8+, 11+, and SEN training programmes and have a wide range of resources to help students with their studies. I can help students work towards specific exams and goals in addition to providing confidence boosts in subjects and supporting students with their ongoing learning. I am also able to provide Personal Statement guidance and subject specific expertise in Archaeology, Anthropology, and Museology.
I come from the North East of Scotland and undertook my secondary education at Robert Gordon’s College in Aberdeen. In my final year, I was awarded A grades in Advanced Higher Latin, Classical Greek, and History and obtained a place at Magdalen College, Oxford where I read Archaeology and Anthropology.
During my time at the University of Oxford, I was president of the University Archaeology Society and course representative. I also assisted with the interviewing process and spent the summer vacations on fieldwork in the UK and Cyprus.
I have completed a Master's in Heritage and Museum Studies at Universiteit Leiden, during which time I co-curated an exhibition on the role of women in the university and assisted with the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden’s Cyprus exhibition.
Prior to my time at Keystone, I worked as a political and cultural journalist, and art writer. I am currently pursuing a PhD in archaeology alongside my tutoring work.
“Alice is a wonderfully engaging tutor who has completely changed our daughter’s online learning experience. We constantly hear how much fun each lesson with Alice has been and how she has made every subject more interesting to learn. It is fantastic to see a 9 year child, who had become disillusioned with remote learning over the course of a year, suddenly perk up and look forward to her sessions with Alice.”
“Alice has been tutoring my son since September and my son has flourished with her help. He looks forward to class with her every week and truly enjoys learning thanks to her. She encourages him to gain confidence in his skills and gently pushes him to surpass his goals. Alice is truly a gifted tutor and a gem of a human. We are so thankful to have found her.”
“Alice has been teaching our children (currently 8 and 12) for almost 3 years and she has become one of our our favourite teachers in our 6 years experience of home schooling . Alice makes every lesson, not only, educational, but also enjoyable and stimulating, which can be quite challenging for many teachers online, especially in that age group. Alice enters every lesson with an infectious enthusiasm which creates a positive energy.”
“My 10 year old son actually looks forward to his tutor sessions with Alice. That is no mean feat considering his previous view on tuition classes. Alice has invested time and effort to get to know my son, his personality and interests which has made him feel appreciated and valued. She assigns him homework which he is independently keen to dive into because it’s fun as much as it is educational.”
I believe that the best education is one taught with passion. With a brief period as a home-schooled student, I appreciate the importance of adopting a style of teaching which best suits the student. I believe that children can learn best when they are taught with enthusiasm, and that setting clear expectations allows pupils to meet them.
My love of Vermeer was established early, when I was a semi-finalist on BBC Junior Mastermind at the age of ten, with the Dutch artist as my specialist subject. Since then, my interest in art and archaeology has grown, and I have volunteered at a range of museums and archives for over a decade, including the National Museum of Scotland, the Sir Duncan Rice Library, and the Haarlem Museum of Archaeology where I wrote the city’s first English children’s tour.
I am an active archaeologist, excavating across the UK and am currently working on my doctoral thesis. I have recently co-ordinated a successful NLHF grant application to return the Book of Deer to the North East of Scotland for the first time in several hundred years. As part of this project, I was involved in our first BBC Alba Documentary Air Toir Manachainn Dheir/The Lost Monastery of Deer in 2018, and our second - Larach Leabhar Dheir/The Missing Monastery broadcast in 2023. My site director and I are also featured on Aberdeen Art Gallery’s Podcast, talking about the 2022 excavation. We have also spoken at CA Live on the project. Following the successful 2022 excavation, we can confirm that the Monastery has now been found.
As of 2024 I am a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
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