Watling Tutors overview

Who are they?

Watling Tutors
4 Watling Street
Radlett
Herts
WD7 7NH

Email: [email protected]
Web: www.watlingtutors.com

We have met with Watling Tutors staff. In addition, 33 clients and 20 tutors have completed an on-line survey. For an explanation of the different tutor sections in the Good Schools Guide see which tutor agency?

The Good Schools Guide review of Watling Tutors

Founded in 2010 by laidback yet super-efficient Leah Warren BA (English, Uni of Leeds) PGCE (Secondary English, UCL Institute of Education), who has 18 years’ teaching and tutoring experience and is still going strong on both fronts, working on a supply basis in at least one local school per term (including JFS and Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys) and currently takes around a fifth of all Watling Tutors sessions. Later joined by admin assistant Ruanne Sher, a South African who cut her teeth at Lehman Brothers and Credit Suisse and is a local mum to three children, and Nicola Price who looks after social media.

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