GCSE Maths · Years 9–11 · Online or in person
GCSE maths tutor — engineered for grade jumps, not generic worksheets.
A matched specialist maths tutor, a plan built around the topics actually costing your child marks, and an honest answer to the question school usually dodges: how far off are we, and how do we close it.
Free 30-minute trial · No card needed · AQA, Edexcel & OCR · 30+ DBS-checked specialist tutors
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What your child gets — every week.
Three things that don't show up in generic online tutoring. Every weekly maths student at Legacy gets all three by default — not as a paid upgrade, not as a 'premium tier'.
A specialist tutor — not a generalist.
GCSE maths is its own subject. The tutor we match your child with teaches GCSE maths week in, week out — they know which topics burn time at higher tier, which ones reliably surface in non-calculator papers, and the recurring traps in each board's question style.
A plan built around the gaps, not the syllabus.
Most paid tutoring quietly walks the syllabus from start to finish — including the topics your child already understands. We diagnose first, then plan against the topics actually costing the grade. Lessons are sequenced around real weak points, not a textbook contents page.
A six-weekly written progress review.
Every six weeks the tutor sends a short written report: what's been covered, what's improved, what's still wobbly, and the recommended focus for the next half-term. You see the trajectory in writing, not just 'the lesson went well'.
What we cover
Foundation tier, higher tier, and the bit nobody is honest about: choosing between them.
We cover the full GCSE maths specification across all three major exam boards — AQA, Edexcel and OCR. Number, algebra, ratio and proportion, geometry, probability, statistics. The content overlaps a lot between boards; the differences are in how the questions are worded, how the papers are structured, and which topics each board likes to lean on. Once we know your child's school board, every plan, every past-paper drill and every revision pack we point them at is the right one for that board.
Foundation-tier students are working towards a 1–5. Higher-tier students are working towards a 4–9. The honest bit, that schools often won't say plainly: tier choice is the single biggest strategic decision in GCSE maths. A confident 5 at foundation is more valuable than a panicked 4 at higher. A solid 6 at higher is worth far more than a stretched 5 at foundation. We'll tell you which one your child is genuinely sitting in, and which one gives them the best result.
At higher tier the recurring weak points are familiar: quadratics that aren't factorisable cleanly, simultaneous equations with one quadratic, surds, vectors, harder trigonometry, and proof-style questions. At foundation the common gaps are earlier — fractions, percentages, ratio, and the fluency stuff that should have been locked down in Year 8. Either way: we know what to look for, and we know what to fix first.
The diagnostic-first principle
How we approach maths anxiety — and why we diagnose before we teach.
Most maths tutoring fails for the same reason: it covers the syllabus instead of the gaps. Your child sits through topics they already understand, and the topic that's actually costing them a grade — the one they quietly avoid — gets one rushed lesson three weeks before the exam. Then the school says 'they're trying hard' and you, the parent, are left with a feeling rather than a plan.
We start the other way around. Lesson one is a diagnostic, not a lecture. The tutor watches how your child works through a piece of real GCSE maths, finds the place where the reasoning breaks, and works backwards to the underlying gap. Sometimes the gap is a Year 9 topic that was never properly understood. Sometimes it's a confidence loop — your child knows the maths but freezes on a clean page. We treat those two problems differently because they are different problems.
Maths anxiety is real, and it's almost never solved by more worksheets. It's solved by short, specific wins, week after week, with a tutor who treats your child like a person and not a grade prediction. That's what we build.
Past-paper-led revision
What revision actually looks like with us — and why it's not just past papers.
Past papers are the single most reliable revision tool in GCSE maths. They show your child the exact question style they're going to sit, train them under realistic time pressure, and surface the gaps that practice questions in a textbook can hide. We use them seriously — board-matched, mark-scheme-aligned, and walked through line by line in lesson rather than left as 'do it at home and we'll mark it later'.
But past papers alone aren't a revision strategy. They're a diagnostic. Your child works the paper, the tutor marks it, and then the next two or three lessons are built around the topics that paper exposed. That's where the grade movement actually happens — not in the act of doing the paper, but in the targeted teaching that follows it. Most tutoring stops at 'doing past papers'. We use them as the starting point of a fix-cycle, not the end point.
In the run-up to mocks and finals, every weekly lesson is anchored to a past paper from the right board, the right tier and the right year. Calculator and non-calculator are practised separately. Time-management technique is taught explicitly: which questions to skip first, when to cut your losses on a four-marker, how to bank quick marks before the harder questions appear.
Pricing snapshot
What it costs — straight numbers, no 'request a quote'.
The free trial lesson is exactly that — free, no card needed. The optional Legacy Diagnostic is £97 and covers a written cross-subject audit plus a 60-minute specialist deep-dive on how your child learns. Weekly 1-to-1 maths tuition starts from £100 per month for one lesson per week with the same specialist tutor.
There are no hidden onboarding fees, no platform charges, no minimum-term contracts. You can pause or cancel weekly lessons with one week's notice. If progress stalls in the first month, the conversation is with our founder directly — not a customer-service queue.
- Free 30-minute trial lesson — no card, no commitment.
- £97 optional diagnostic — written report + 60-minute specialist session + 30-minute parent call.
- Weekly tutoring — from £100/month, same specialist tutor every week.
- No lock-in. Pause or cancel with one week's notice.
GCSE maths tutoring — frequently asked.
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