Online GCSE · UK-wide · AQA, Edexcel & OCR
Online GCSE tutor — the same 1-to-1, anywhere your child is.
A matched specialist tutor, a shared interactive whiteboard, and a plan built around the topics actually costing your child marks. All of it from your kitchen table — without the compromises most families assume online has to mean.
Free 30-minute trial · No card needed · UK-wide · 30+ DBS-checked specialist tutors
- UK-wide coverage
- 30+ specialist tutors
- DBS-checked
- Russell Group, Oxbridge & qualified teachers
- Free trial lesson
What 'online' actually means here — and what it doesn't.
Three things that separate online tutoring at Legacy from the generic-platform experience most families have already tried and bounced off. None of them are an upgrade — they're how every weekly student is taught.
A shared interactive whiteboard, not a one-way video call.
Your child writes on the same digital page the tutor is writing on, in real time, with both of them seeing every keystroke and pen stroke. The tutor can highlight a missed step, redraw a diagram, or pull up a past-paper question and annotate it live. It is genuinely more interactive than a desk and a piece of paper, not a worse approximation of it.
Async messaging between sessions — questions don't wait a week.
Stuck on a homework question on a Wednesday night when the next lesson is Saturday morning? Your child messages the tutor through the platform, and the tutor replies — usually the same evening, always within 24 hours on a school day. The weekly lesson stops being the only point of contact, and the gap between lessons stops being dead time.
Optional lesson recording — the same explanation, on demand.
Every lesson can be recorded and shared with the family the same evening (off by default; on if you ask). In the run-up to mocks and finals, this turns out to matter a lot — your child can rewatch the explanation of a tricky topic the night before the exam, in the tutor's actual voice, instead of trying to reconstruct it from rushed notes.
How online actually works at Legacy
Three steps from booking the trial to a weekly lesson that lands.
Step one is the trial. You fill in a short form — your child's year, the subject you're worried about, what's not working at school. We match a specialist tutor against that brief (not 'whoever is free at 6pm'), and the trial lesson is in the diary within 48 hours. The trial itself is a 30-minute 1-to-1 lesson on the platform — same shared whiteboard, same tooling, same tutor your child would see weekly. Inside 24 hours after the trial you get a short written read from the tutor: what your child handled well, the specific gaps they spotted, and an honest answer to whether weekly tutoring is the right move.
Step two is the weekly lesson. Same tutor, same slot, same shared workspace every week. The lesson plan is built around the gaps the trial surfaced, not a generic syllabus crawl. Your child works live with the tutor on the whiteboard; the tutor sets specific homework that targets the next gap; your child messages the tutor between sessions when they get stuck. Every six weeks the tutor sends you a written progress review — what's been covered, what's improved, what's still wobbly, what to focus on next.
Step three is the exam run-in. From around eight weeks before the first paper, weekly lessons anchor to past papers from the right board, the right tier and the right year. Calculator and non-calculator are practised separately. Time-management technique is taught explicitly. If recordings are switched on, your child can rewatch the harder explanations the night before each paper — in the tutor's voice, not a stranger's YouTube video.
Equipment and setup
What you need at your end — and what you don't.
You need a laptop, desktop or tablet (an iPad is fine; a phone is too small for the whiteboard) and a reasonably stable wifi connection. A webcam is useful but not required — many of our students prefer audio-only, particularly the ones who feel self-conscious on camera, and grade outcomes don't differ. A headset cuts the household noise but a built-in mic is fine. There is nothing to install before the trial: the platform runs in any modern web browser and the join link arrives the day before the lesson.
- Laptop, desktop or tablet (iPad fine — phone too small for the whiteboard).
- Stable wifi (wired or strong wifi; we have backup plans for flaky connections).
- Webcam optional, not required.
- No software installs — everything runs in a normal browser.
How online compares to in-person
An honest comparison — not 'online is always better'.
For most GCSE students online is comparable to in-person and frequently more practical: no travel, no missed lessons because of traffic, the same tutor every week regardless of where the family happens to be that month, and the option of recordings (which in-person can't easily match). The shared whiteboard removes most of the interaction gap that older video tutoring relied on — your child works live with the tutor in the same digital space, not across a screen with a delay.
Where in-person genuinely helps is for younger or particularly anxious students who struggle to focus on a screen for half an hour, or for families who specifically want a tutor in the room as part of how they parent the homework habit. We offer in-person tutoring across the west London / Uxbridge catchment (see the London geo page below); for families outside that radius the honest answer is that online with us is going to be better than in-person with whoever happens to live nearby.
We don't pretend online is always better. We do think it's better than most families expect when they imagine it from the outside — and the trial lesson is the cheapest way to find out which side of that line your child is on.
Subjects we cover online
All five GCSE subjects, every major exam board.
Every subject below runs on the same online platform, with a specialist tutor matched to that specific subject and your child's school exam board. AQA, Edexcel and OCR are all covered as standard.
Online GCSE tutoring — frequently asked.
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