Online GCSE · UK-wide · AQA, Edexcel & OCR
Online GCSE tutoring.
See how our students achieve top GCSE grades in months. Book a free trial and see how we can do the same for your child.
Free 45-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.
Three stages, no platform-style hand-off and no 'whoever is free at 6pm' matching. The trial is in the diary inside 48 hours; weekly lessons begin once the match is right.
- Trial — 45-minute 1-to-1 on the same whiteboard your child would use weekly. Within 24 hours the tutor sends a written read: what handled well, where the gaps are, and an honest answer on whether weekly tutoring is the right move.
- Weekly lesson — same tutor, same slot, plan built around the gaps the trial surfaced. Async messaging between sessions; a written progress review every six weeks.
- Exam run-in — from around eight weeks out, lessons anchor to past papers from the right board, tier and year. Calculator and non-calculator practised separately; recordings (if on) available the same evening for revision.
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 (when it eventually launches)
An honest comparison — not 'online is always better'.
For most GCSE students online is comparable to in-person and frequently more practical. We don't pretend online is always better — we do think it's better than most families expect, and the trial is the cheapest way to find out which side of that line your child is on. In-person isn't something we can offer today; it's planned to start in London, but online is the only option live across the UK right now.
- Online wins on logistics — no travel, no traffic-cancelled lessons, the same tutor regardless of where the family happens to be that month, plus optional recordings.
- The shared whiteboard closes most of the interaction gap older video tutoring left open — live working in the same digital space, not 'watching' a tutor across a screen.
- In-person genuinely helps younger or particularly anxious students who struggle to focus on a screen, or families who want a tutor in the room as part of the homework habit. That's on our roadmap (west London out of our Uxbridge HQ first), but it isn't something we can deliver today — so for now, online with us is the option, and online with us beats in-person with whoever happens to live nearby.
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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