Online GCSE Tutoring in Angel
One-to-one lessons for Year 10, Year 11 and resit students, £30 per lesson
Online GCSE tutoring in Angel across every subject we teach. A Saturday job in Year 11 is a common source of household argument and a surprisingly poor predictor of results. What matters is not whether a student works, but how many hours and what those hours displaced.
There are also legal limits that most families and a fair number of employers do not know, and they are tighter than people assume.
The first session is free and it is a real lesson, scheduled around whatever the shift pattern happens to be.
What Angel families ask
- How many hours a Year 11 can legally work.
- Whether a job hurts grades.
- Whether to stop it before the exams.
- What an employer has to have in place.
- How to fit tutoring around a rota.
What are the legal limits?
Tighter than most employers apply, and they are worth knowing before a rota is agreed rather than after.
A child of compulsory school age can work a maximum of 12 hours a week during term time. Within that, no more than 2 hours on a school day and no more than 2 hours on a Sunday, with up to 8 hours on a Saturday for a 15 or 16 year old. The restrictions on child employment set the whole thing out.
There are limits on when as well as how much. No work during school hours, nothing before 7am or after 7pm, no more than one hour before school unless local bylaws allow it, and a break of at least an hour after four hours of work. A child must also have a two-week break from work during the school holidays each year.
And there is a permit. Where local bylaws require it, an employer must obtain an employment permit from the council’s education department, and councils publish their own lists of jobs that under-16s cannot do. A Year 11 working eight hours on a Saturday in a café is entirely lawful. The same student doing three hours after school on a Wednesday is not.
During the holidays the ceiling rises: a 15 or 16 year old can work up to 35 hours a week, with a maximum of 8 on weekdays and Saturdays and 2 on a Sunday.
Term time limits, ages 15 to 16
| Maximum | |
|---|---|
| Per week | 12 hours |
| School day | 2 hours |
| Saturday | 8 hours |
| Sunday | 2 hours |
| Earliest and latest | 7am to 7pm |
An employment permit is required where local bylaws say so.
Does a job actually hurt the grades?
It depends entirely on what the hours replaced, and that is a question with a real answer rather than an opinion.
The useful test is subtraction. Write down what a week contained before the job and what it contains now, and see what came out. If eight hours of gaming became eight hours of work, nothing academic has been lost and something has been gained. If the only two hours of revision in the week became a Thursday shift, that is a straightforward trade against the exams.
What complicates it is that a job frequently improves the rest of the week. A student with a Saturday shift often does more work on a Sunday than they used to do across the whole weekend, because the day has a shape. Structure is worth something to a sixteen year old, and unstructured time is not automatically revision time.
The genuinely bad version is the one where hours creep. A job agreed as six hours on a Saturday becomes ten across three days by February, nobody renegotiated it, and the student is tired in a way that costs them Monday as well. That is worth checking against the rota rather than against memory.
Our Kentish Town page sets out what a realistic revision week contains, which makes the subtraction easier to do honestly.
The subtraction test
Write down the week before the job
Honestly, including the empty hours.
Write down the week now
From the rota, not from memory.
Find what came out
That is the only thing that matters.
Renegotiate the shift, not the job
Usually one shift is enough.
What about during the exam season itself?
Reduce rather than stop, and give the employer notice in March rather than in May.
The exam series runs across roughly six weeks, and the days within it are uneven: some have two papers, some have none. A fixed weekly shift sits badly against that, and the sensible move is to agree in advance that hours drop through May and June and return afterwards.
Employers of sixteen year olds are used to this and most will accommodate it if asked early. Asked late, in the week of the first paper, it lands as a problem rather than a plan, and a student who feels unable to ask ends up working the shift and revising afterwards.
Stopping altogether is usually unnecessary and occasionally counterproductive. A student with nothing at all in the week during study leave can lose the shape of the day entirely, and a single Saturday shift can be the thing that keeps a routine standing while the rest of the timetable disappears.
The date to plan around is not the last paper but the contingency day, which our Rayners Lane page explains.
A workable exam-season plan
- Give notice in March, not May.
- Drop midweek shifts first.
- Keep one weekend shift for the routine.
- Check the personal exam timetable before agreeing.
- Return to normal hours after the contingency day.
Which GCSE subjects can your child get help with?
All of them, scheduled around whatever else is in the week.
Maths
Where a consistent weekly slot matters most. See GCSE Maths tutoring.
English Language and Literature
Both GCSEs, with writing marked between sessions. See GCSE English tutoring.
Combined and Triple Science
Three strands with a specialist in each. See GCSE Science tutoring.
Computer Science
Programming and the written papers. See GCSE Computer Science tutoring.
Business Studies
Which a student with a job often finds unusually concrete. See GCSE Business Studies tutoring.
Humanities
History, Geography and Religious Studies, when a specialist has room.
What changes once they are 16?
The child employment rules stop applying, and a different obligation takes their place.
Once a student is past compulsory school age the term-time hour limits fall away, and a young person can work up to 40 hours a week. What does not fall away is the requirement to remain in education or training until 18, which can be full-time study, an apprenticeship, or part-time study alongside 20 hours or more of work.
That last option is the one that matters for a student who wants to work. Twenty hours of work with part-time education attached is a legitimate route, and it is a very different proposition from dropping out.
The 16 to 19 maths and English condition of funding, updated in July 2026, still applies within it. A student without grade 4 in maths or English keeps studying that subject: grade 3 towards a GCSE, grade 2 or below towards Functional Skills level 2.
After 16, until 18
- Full-time education, or
- An apprenticeship or traineeship, or
- 20 hours of work with part-time study attached.
- Maths and English continue if below grade 4.
- The 12-hour term-time limit no longer applies.
See GCSE resit tutoring and our Wood Green page.
How does an online lesson run?
Video and a shared whiteboard, at a time that fits around the rest of the week.
Send us the rota
Or roughly when the shifts fall.
Free one-to-one session
A real lesson, no card details taken.
A slot that avoids the shift
Moved when the rota changes.
Work sized for a working week
Shorter, and actually done.
Reviewed at six weeks
Against marked work.
The full process is on how it works. Islington publishes its term and holiday dates, which is worth checking against holiday working hours.
What does a GCSE tutor in Angel cost?
One to one at £30, with the slot moved rather than lost when work clashes.
Nothing is bought in blocks, so a week with an awkward rota costs nothing rather than wasting a prepaid session.
Get the lesson length confirmed, then an hourly rate elsewhere becomes comparable. Our guide to GCSE tutoring costs sets out the market.
What £30 covers
- A full one-to-one lesson with a subject specialist.
- A slot that moves with the rota.
- Work sized for a week that already has hours in it.
- No charge for a week skipped.
- A tutor change if the match is wrong.
Tell us when the shifts are
We will work round them rather than asking you to work round us.
- Year group and subject.
- When the shifts usually fall.
- How many hours a week the job takes.
- Current grade and target grade.
- Days and times that are genuinely free.
Prefer to talk it through? WhatsApp us, or use the contact page.
Send an enquiry
Frequently asked questions
Can a Year 11 student have a part-time job?
Yes, within limits set in law. During term time a child of compulsory school age can work a maximum of 12 hours a week, including no more than 2 hours on a school day.
What are the other rules?
No work during school hours, none before 7am or after 7pm, no more than one hour before school, and a break of at least an hour after four hours worked. On Saturdays a 15 or 16 year old can work up to 8 hours, and up to 2 hours on a Sunday.
Does the employer need anything?
Usually an employment permit issued by the council’s education department, where local bylaws require one. Councils also set their own lists of jobs that under-16s cannot do.
Is 12 hours a week too much in Year 11?
It depends what it replaces. Twelve hours that replace screen time is very different from twelve hours that replace the only revision happening, and the honest test is what the week looked like before the job.
Should we make them give it up before the exams?
Not necessarily, and reducing is usually better than stopping. A job often provides structure, money and a reason to be organised, and removing all three in March is a bigger disruption than dropping a shift.
Which GCSE subjects do you cover?
Maths, both English GCSEs, Combined or Triple Science, Computer Science and Business Studies, with humanities depending on availability.
What does it cost?
£30 a lesson, one to one, and lessons can move week to week around a shift.
Do you have a tuition centre in Angel?
No. Everything is online, which is the only reason a shift pattern can be worked around.
Book a free GCSE session for your child in Angel
One free one-to-one session, no card details and no obligation. Tell us when the shifts are and we will find an hour that does not compete with them.