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Online GCSE Tutoring in Hayes
One-to-one lessons for Year 10, Year 11 and resit students, £30 per lesson
Online GCSE tutoring in Hayes for school students, and for the unusually large number of adults here going back to finish English or maths. Hayes has a college campus of its own, which shapes the questions we get asked from UB3 and UB4.
Lessons run one-to-one over video and move around a rota rather than fighting it. That matters in a town where a lot of parents work shifts at or around Heathrow and cannot promise the same evening every week.
The first session is free and it is a real lesson. The tutor works with the student, finds the gap, and reports back on what they found.
Who books us in Hayes
- Adults resitting English or maths alongside a college class.
- Year 10 and Year 11 students at the Hayes secondaries.
- Shift-working families who need the slot to move.
- Students taking GCSE English Language with English as a second language.
- Triple Science students needing three specialists.
Why do so many adults in Hayes end up doing one subject privately?
Because the two evening classes they need are scheduled on the same night. It is a small timetabling detail with a large consequence, and almost nobody spots it until enrolment.
Uxbridge College, part of the HRUC group, runs campuses in Uxbridge and Hayes. Its part-time evening GCSE maths is listed as two and a half hours a week on the Uxbridge or Hayes campus, usually on a Tuesday evening. Its part-time evening GCSE English Language is listed as Tuesday evenings at the Hayes campus, over a 30-week course.
Read those two together and the problem is obvious. An adult in Hayes who needs both subjects, which is the most common position to be in after a grade 3 in each, cannot take both evening courses in the same year at the same campus.
The practical answer most people land on is to take one at college and do the other one to one, in the evening or at a weekend, around whatever the rota allows. We would rather set that out plainly than let somebody enrol in September and discover the clash in week one.
Worth doing the arithmetic on hours too. Thirty weeks at two and a half hours is roughly 75 taught hours for a full GCSE. A Year 11 gets several times that. The gap is closed by practice between sessions, and that is precisely what one to one is for.
Before you enrol, check
- Which night each subject runs on, and at which campus.
- Whether the maths class is at Uxbridge or Hayes this year.
- The exam board, listed as Edexcel GCSE (9-1) for the evening maths course.
- The number of taught weeks, and what is expected between classes.
- Whether you are eligible for free tuition as an adult without a grade 4.
Details as published by the college. Confirm this year’s timetable with them directly before committing to anything.
Who actually has to resit?
Age decides it. A 17 year old and a 30 year old sitting the same paper are on entirely different footings, with different rules and different funding.
For 16 to 19 year olds, the maths and English condition of funding, updated by government in July 2026, makes continued study compulsory for anyone on a study programme without grade 4 or above in maths and English. Holding a grade 3 commits the student to a GCSE. At grade 2 or below, Functional Skills level 2 becomes an option instead.
For adults over 19 the rules are looser but the funding is generous: tuition is normally free for adults who do not already hold a grade 4 in the subject. The constraint is time, not money.
| Series | Subjects | What it suits |
|---|---|---|
| November | Maths and English Language only | A near miss in August. Around ten weeks, so it moves a grade 3 that was close, not a subject that needs rebuilding. |
| Following summer | Every GCSE subject | The full series, and the sensible target when a subject needs rebuilding rather than nudging. It also lines up with a 30-week college course. |
Our GCSE resit tutoring page covers both series, and the deadlines sit on our GCSE exam dates page.
Which GCSE subjects can you get help with?
Everything below runs from this one page, whether the student is fifteen and at a Hayes secondary or thirty-five and going back to finish maths.
Maths
Both tiers, with algebra and number confidence doing most of the work for adults returning after years away. See GCSE Maths tutoring.
English Language and Literature
The reading paper, structured writing under time, and the set texts for anyone taking Literature. See GCSE English tutoring.
Combined and Triple Science
Biology, Chemistry and Physics taught as three strands by three specialists. See GCSE Science tutoring.
Computer Science
Programming, algorithms and the written paper where confident coders lose marks. See GCSE Computer Science tutoring.
Business Studies
Case studies, calculations and the longer evaluation answers. See GCSE Business Studies tutoring.
Humanities
History, Geography and Religious Studies, when a specialist has capacity.
What about Year 10 and Year 11?
Most of our Hayes work, in fact. The town has a good spread of secondaries, including Barnhill Community High School, Harlington School, Rosedale College and Guru Nanak Sikh Academy.
Year 10
A topic that goes wrong in the autumn is roughly one lesson to put right. The same gap found in the spring of Year 11 is three or four, because two terms of teaching have been resting on it.
Year 10 work is mostly diagnostic. The tutor reads recent classwork, finds the point where understanding stopped, and rebuilds from there.
One practical note on scheduling. Hillingdon publishes term dates for its community schools, but academies and voluntary aided schools set their own, and the government term dates finder lists them school by school. Worth two minutes before you fix a weekly slot around a rota that already moves.
See when to start GCSE tutoring for the timing argument.
Year 11
The syllabus is largely taught by now. Grades move on technique: reading the command word, showing method, and not spending a quarter of the paper on one question.
Mocks become the material. A tutor marks them the way an examiner would and works backwards from where the marks actually went.
Timed papers belong in the autumn rather than in April. Our revision timetable guide covers the pacing.
How do lessons fit around shift work?
By moving. A weekly slot that never changes is easy to sell and useless to a household on rotating earlies and lates.
Hayes sits close to Heathrow and a large share of local families work patterns that rotate. The four to six weekday window everybody asks for first is also the one that books out first, so flexibility in either direction helps.
Term dates are the other moving part. Hillingdon publishes a calendar for its community schools, with the 2026/27 autumn term running from Wednesday 2 September to Friday 18 December 2026, but academies and voluntary aided schools set their own. Send us the school’s actual calendar rather than the council one, and we will schedule against it.
Tell us the rota
As far ahead as you have it, plus any fixed commitments.
Free one-to-one session
A real lesson, no card details, followed by an honest report.
Match and schedule
A tutor confirmed, with a default slot and a fallback.
Weekly lessons
One target topic each week, practice afterwards, papers early.
Adjust as needed
Rota changes are normal here. Tell us and we move it.
How much does a GCSE tutor in Hayes cost?
£30 a lesson, one to one. No fee to get started, and nothing bought in advance.
If you are an adult without a grade 4 and the college course fits your life, take the college course. It is likely to be free and we would rather say so than take a booking we do not deserve.
Where one to one earns its keep is alongside that class, or when the timetable simply does not work, which in Hayes it frequently does not. Our guide to GCSE tutoring costs sets out the wider market.
What £30 covers
- A full one-to-one lesson with a subject specialist.
- Planning against your exam board and tier.
- Past paper work marked against the real mark scheme.
- Progress feedback in plain language.
- A different tutor if the first match is wrong.
Tell us what you need
Adults and parents both welcome. We reply during the day, usually within a few hours.
- Subject, and year group or age.
- Exam board and tier, if you know them.
- Whether a college course is already running.
- Current grade and the grade you need.
- Days and times, including any rota.
Prefer to talk? WhatsApp us, or use the contact page.
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Frequently asked questions
I need both GCSE English and maths. Can I do both at the college in one year?
Check the timetable before you assume so. Uxbridge College lists its part-time evening GCSE maths as usually Tuesday evening and its part-time evening GCSE English Language as Tuesday evenings at the Hayes campus, so on paper the two clash. That is the single most common reason adults in Hayes end up with one subject taught one to one.
How long is the college evening GCSE course?
The English Language evening course is listed as 30 weeks at two and a half hours a week. That is around 75 taught hours to cover a full GCSE, which is a fraction of what a Year 11 gets, and it is why targeted practice between classes matters.
Which exam board would I be sitting?
Uxbridge College lists the Edexcel GCSE (9-1) specification for its evening maths course. Tell us the board when you enquire and we will teach to it rather than to a generic syllabus.
I work shifts at the airport. Can lessons move week to week?
Within reason, yes. Give us your rota as far ahead as you have it and we will book around it. A fixed classroom slot cannot do that, which is the main practical argument for one to one here.
Which GCSE subjects do you cover?
Maths, English Language and English Literature, Combined and Triple Science, the three sciences separately, Computer Science and Business Studies. Humanities depend on tutor availability.
Do you tutor school-age students in Hayes as well as adults?
Yes, and they are most of our work. Year 10 and Year 11 students at the Hayes secondaries make up the bulk of enquiries, with adult resitters second.
How much does it cost?
£30 for a one-to-one lesson. No registration fee, no agency margin, and no block of lessons to buy before you have met the tutor.
What if English is not my first language?
That is common in Hayes and it changes what the lessons focus on. GCSE English Language is a reading and analysis paper, not a grammar test, so the work is usually about inference and structuring answers under time.
Book a free one-to-one GCSE session in Hayes
One free session, no card details, no obligation. If you are choosing between a college class and one to one, book it before enrolment rather than after.