Bury Street Tutoring — Maths Tutoring for Year 7, 8 & 9 in London

Parent Success Stories

Real results from families just like yours

★★★★★

Isabel

Parent of Year 7 Student

“She does her homework without being asked — it’s like second nature now. She’s become a confident young lady and now wants to pursue engineering.”

Angel started in Year 7 after doing poorly on her SATs and struggling with basic topics like times tables. After completing the program, she now routinely does her homework every day without being reminded, received an outstanding achievement award from her maths teacher, and has gained the confidence to pursue engineering.

★★★★★

Maria

Parent of Year 9 Student

“Her confidence has grown a lot. She’s not lost anymore, and has gotten into a routine of doing homework every day — it’s become a habit.”

Leila started secondary school with weak foundations from primary and was placed in the bottom set. Since beginning the program, her teachers have remarked that they’ve been impressed with her improvement. She’s more focused in class, and her exam results have gone up. She’s also turned daily studying into a habit.

★★★★★

Karina

Parent of Year 8 Student

“He does his homework every day — and with pleasure. He’s a top scorer in his class and won a Gold Certificate in the Maths Challenge.”

Aydin was already strong at Maths, but felt frustrated because he wasn’t being challenged in his class at school. Since beginning the program he’s moved into Set 1, has become a top scorer in his class, and regularly takes part in Maths competitions. He also does his homework every day without any stress or nagging — it’s become part of his daily routine.

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Common Questions

Everything you want to know before booking

The questions parents ask most before getting on a call.

Year 7, 8 and 9 only. This is a deliberate choice — Years 7 to 9 are when the foundations either get built properly or start to crack. By Year 10, you’re fighting gaps and exam pressure at the same time. Far harder.

Fully online. Sessions run over Zoom. This means no travel time, no disruption to after-school activities, and your child can work from wherever they’re comfortable. Parents have found this works just as well — often better — than in-person sessions.

A maximum of 2 students per session. This is non-negotiable. It keeps things personal without the cost of fully 1-on-1. Your child gets individual attention, real feedback, and the chance to learn alongside one other student at the same level.

One session per week, 60 minutes. But the lesson is only part of the picture — what happens every day in between the lessons is where most of the progress comes from.

The first big milestone happens at week three. This is the point at which almost all students and parents report that the entire system is becoming more natural.

Not at all. In fact, children with foundational gaps often see the most dramatic improvements because filling those gaps unlocks everything that follows. We start by identifying exactly where the gaps are — not assuming — and work from there.

Regular tutoring addresses what’s in front of the child that week. It rarely builds the habit, fills foundational gaps systematically, or develops the problem-solving skills needed for harder exam questions. This programme does all three — and the daily practice structure means what’s learned in lessons actually sticks.

Yes. We work with what the school is covering alongside filling foundational gaps. The daily questions are tailored to where your child is, not a one-size-fits-all syllabus.

Because this isn’t just tutoring. The lesson is one hour a week. The real work — and the real change — happens in the daily questions, the feedback loop, and the gradual habit that builds over 12 weeks. That’s what most tutors never touch. That’s why results from standard tutoring often don’t stick.

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Every parent I speak to already knows what their child needs.

Consistency. Daily practice. A proper study routine.

You know it. You’ve heard it at every parents’ evening.

80%

of a student’s progress comes from what they do outside of lessons

So why doesn’t it happen?

Because the moment you try to enforce it at home, you become the dreaded ‘nagging parent’.

So you do the sensible thing — hire a tutor, hand the problem over, and hope the weekly lessons are enough.

But they rarely are.

And it’s not the tutor’s fault. One hour a week was never going to be enough to build a habit. It was only ever going to teach what was in front of them that day.

WhatsApp message from parent requesting extra maths homework — *A real message from a parent who described their child as “too lazy to stick to daily work.” Sound familiar?*

A genuine study habit, once built, doesn’t go away.

It stays with your child through their GCSEs, their A-Levels, and beyond.

While their classmates are still cramming the night before, your child will have already done the work.

What nobody tells you about weekly tutoring

The moment your child leaves a lesson, a countdown starts.

Within a day, a big chunk of what they’ve learned has already faded.

By the next lesson, most of it is gone — so the tutor spends half the session recapping instead of pushing forward.

This cycle repeats week after week, and your child never really gets anywhere.

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The Solution

The 5×5 Maths Habit System

A study habit takes less time to build than you’d think.

Research from University College London found that a new behaviour becomes automatic in around 66 days — roughly ten weeks.

The goal for all my students is to get them to the point where they are consistently doing 5 maths questions a day, 5 days a week, without being asked.

Over a school year, that adds up to more than 1,000 extra questions — over 40 practice papers’ worth of work.

Once your child reaches this point, it’s game over. They’ll be doing more practice in a single year than most students do in a lifetime.

But we don’t start there.

We start with just one question a day.

Over 12 weeks, we gradually increase the workload. Your child never gets overwhelmed or feels the workload creeping up.

By the end of the programme, five questions a day just feels like a normal part of their day to day routine.

Weeks 1–2 1 question/day

Weeks 3–4 2 questions/day

Weeks 5–6 3 questions/day

Weeks 7–8 4 questions/day

Weeks 9–10 5 questions/day

Weeks 11–12 5 questions/day

Because the questions ramp up gradually, your child is never overwhelmed. By the end of the programme, 5 questions a day feels routine.

Every day, your child sends their work in and gets feedback. If they miss a day, I follow up — with them, and with you.

The accountability sits with me, not you. You get to be the supportive parent, not the enforcer.

Week 3 — First Threshold (difficulty drops ~50%) Week 12 — Habit Formed (point of automaticity)

Difficulty drops sharply by Week 3. By Week 12, it’s near zero.

Most parents spend years waiting for their child to develop a study habit. Three weeks is all it actually takes.

What’s Included

What your child gets

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12-Week Habit Building System

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Weekly Live Lesson (max 2 students)

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Free Trial Lesson

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Daily Feedback on Their Work

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Regular Parent Updates

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Full Progress Tracking

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How It Works

How we get started

No commitment until you’ve seen it work.

Answer a few questions.

Takes 1 minute. Tells me a bit about your child’s situation so we can have a useful conversation.

We get on a short call.

10 minutes. I’ll ask a few questions about your child, explain how the programme works, and we’ll figure out together whether this is the right fit.

Free trial lesson.

If it seems like a good fit, your child gets a free trial lesson. They experience the teaching style before you commit to anything.

No charge & no obligation.

My Guarantee

Risk-free from day one

Complete the first 3 weeks and if you decide for any reason it isn’t right for your child, I’ll refund you in full. No questions asked.

And the daily work is tiny: just one question a day to begin with, almost always under five minutes.

The only condition is that they do the work.

If they show up, put in the daily reps, and it still hasn’t clicked — I don’t want your money.

This isn’t for everyone

If you want one-off sessions or a quick boost before an exam, this isn’t it.

It’s for parents who understand that without a daily habit, tutoring is temporary at best and wasted money at worst.

Parents who’d rather fix this now, while the workload is still manageable and there’s no looming GCSE pressure.

Wait until Year 10, and you’re fighting years of gaps and exam anxiety all at once.

Far harder.

Who I Am

My Background

Hi — I’m Semih.

I’ve spent 10 years working with Year 7–13 maths students in London. I have a degree in Physics, and I’ve taught hundreds of students across that time.

Early on I noticed something: the students who improved dramatically weren’t the most naturally gifted. They were the ones who’d built a consistent daily practice. The ones who hadn’t — no matter how good the tutoring — stagnated.

That’s why I rebuilt everything around building a study habit. The lessons are an important part of tutoring. But the daily system is what actually makes the knowledge stick long-term.

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