Sophie Breese
I offer:
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- Week-long courses & one-off masterclasses for 11+ preparation
- Downloadable resources (from Feb 2027) for 11+
- 11+ advice for top London independent school applications
- Oxbridge and university preparation in English
- 11+ and A level English literature tuition
- Enrichment for all abilities aged 9 onwards
Headline credentials:
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- English Teacher at St Paul’s Girls’ School for 9 years
- Full-time private tutor since 2013, with outstanding results
- Presented with Teacher Trailblazer award by Poetry Society 2009
- Over 30 years of teaching experience from leading children up mountains to lecturing undergraduates at Oxford University
- BA (Oxon), MA (Ebor), Mst, Dphil (Oxon), PGCE (IoE)
English takes us on adventures. My favourite authors are William Shakespeare, Margaret Atwood, and David Almond. With them I can go to a magical island where everyone gets a chance to make up for their mistakes; encounter a nineteenth-century woman in prison for murder; or meet a curious creature with webbed toes and fingers who rescues orphans.
Everyone can love English; everyone can learn to appreciate the extraordinary ways in which poets manipulate us with a single line break or an unusual image; everyone can learn to explain this single line break and this unusual image. And this is what I do: help my students fall in love with my subject and in doing so I teach my students the skills that are needed to convey these ideas in the form of 11+ comprehensions, literary essays and personal statements.
To my great delight, my students have gone to the right schools and universities; many have become poets, novelists, critics, academics, journalists, English teachers; above all, they are readers.