Teaching that starts from how the learner learns
Rowena offers one-to-one and small group tuition using a structured, cumulative and multisensory approach, matched precisely to each learner's profile, across all Key Stages.
Not more of the same tutoring
Ordinary tutoring often gives a dyslexic learner more of what already isn't working. Specialist teaching is different: it is structured, cumulative and multisensory, targeting the specific skills the learner's profile shows need building and it is delivered by an experienced teacher qualified to work with specific learning difficulties.
Where a learner has had a diagnostic assessment, teaching is planned directly from its findings, so every session is spent on what will make the biggest difference. Learners who have been assessed elsewhere are equally welcome. If a child has not been formally assessed, informal assessment in the initial sessions, combined with information provided by parents and school, enables a suitable teaching plan to be devised.
What sessions can cover
- Reading accuracy, fluency and comprehension
- Spelling, taught through structure and pattern rather than memorisation
- Writing - planning, organising and transferring ideas onto paper
- Study skills, revision strategies and exam technique
- Exam preparation across multiple levels, including 11+, 13+, SATs, GCSEs and A Levels
- Memory and organisation strategies for school and daily life
Progress you can see and feel
Many learners arrive having concluded something unfair about themselves: that they're "not clever" or "can't do it". The first job of specialist teaching is to dismantle that belief with real, visible progress. Sessions are paced so the learner succeeds early and often, and skills are revisited until they're secure rather than rushed past.
Parents receive honest feedback on progress, and teaching goals are reviewed regularly so the programme adapts as the learner grows. Sessions take place at Rowena's teaching room in Wandsworth, or in some circumstances, at the pupil's school.