Online · One to one · By application
Selective one-to-one teaching in mathematics and quantitative subjects, for gifted, ADHD and twice-exceptional students. Places are limited by design: five students this year, one of them fully funded.
01 / Admissions
Not every capable student needs this, and it is an expensive solution to the wrong problem. The students it was designed for tend to look like one of these.
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Understands the concept the first time it is explained, and still loses marks on the paper.
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Swings between the top and the bottom of the class, in the same subject, within the same term.
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Has been told they are not applying themselves, by people who never looked at how they think.
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Is ready for work well beyond their year group and has never once been handed it.
02 / Scope
Sitting beside a student while they finish an assignment produces a finished assignment. It does not produce a student who can do the next one alone.
No diagnosis, no psychometric testing, no therapy. This is teaching, by someone who reads the research and works alongside clinicians rather than replacing them.
Marks can be lifted quickly. Building a student who reads a hard problem and knows what to do with it takes years. That is the timescale this practice works on.
03 / Method
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A short written enquiry. Not a sales call, and nothing to prepare for.
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Thirty minutes, to work out whether this teaching suits this student. Both sides can say no.
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What the student knows, how they approach an unfamiliar problem, and the exact point where it breaks down. Written up and shared.
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One to one, online, on the student’s real academic work, not a parallel syllabus invented for tutoring.
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In writing, every term: what has moved, what has not, and what the next stretch of work is for.
Scope
The baseline is educational, never clinical. I do not diagnose, and I do not assess for diagnosis. When that is what a family needs, I say so and step aside.
04 / Capacity
Each student has one fixed hour a week, and the hour is only the visible part: around it there is a plan to build and rewrite as the student changes. This is a design decision, not a shortage. A student who is one of forty is not being taught, only supervised.
It also means the honest answer is sometimes no. Applications close on 31 August and the five places are decided after that date. Once they are filled, later applications are declined rather than absorbed into a larger timetable.
05 / Evidence
These are students I taught mathematics and statistics. None of them was part of this programme — it begins in September. What they describe is the method, and the method is the part that carries over.
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Explaining it again costs nothing.
“She always makes sure I understand and is patient enough to explain things as many times as I need.”
Eva · Student
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The answer is never handed over.
“She doesn’t just give you the answers; she shows you the tricks and shortcuts, then lets you try it on your own, which made me actually understand the steps. And after I solve it, she goes over it with me to make sure I got it right.”
Anna · Student
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Complexity arrives in pieces.
“She breaks down complex topics into easy-to-understand steps… she’s patient and always willing to go over anything I’m stuck on.”
Nicholas · Linear algebra student
06 / Applications
An application is a short letter, not a form: what the student is working on, what keeps going wrong, what you have already tried. I read every one myself and reply either way. If this is not the right teaching for your child, I will say so and point you towards someone better suited.
Notes, by email
One email when I publish something worth sending. No weekly obligation, no manufactured urgency.
What arrives
No fixed schedule, no automated sequence, no sharing with third parties.
Serenella Muradore Gallas
Selective one-to-one tutoring for gifted, ADHD and twice-exceptional students, built over years rather than semesters.
Educational support, not clinical care. I do not diagnose, assess, or provide therapy.
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Online one-to-one tutoring in mathematics and quantitative subjects · Gifted, ADHD and twice-exceptional students