A desk with a small laptop, wireless mouse, mouse pad, and pen, surrounded by educational toys including colored letter tiles, a whiteboard with red and yellow tiles, and a book titled 'The Dragon Sight Detective.'

The Chimney-Corner: Specialist Tuition

Funding, reviews and reports

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For families whose provision is funded through EOTAS or another local authority route: most families I've worked with have paid directly from their personal budget and reclaimed. I have invoiced an LA directly once. My preference is for the parent to pay and reclaim - LAs work slightly differently and personal-budget reclamation is the cleaner route for everyone.

Where an LA requires tutors to apply to their approved tutor list, I'll consider that where the family specifically requests my involvement.

EHCP annual reviews

I'm familiar with EHCP outcome frameworks (I've rewritten my son's annually for a decade) and I've recently filled in LA EOTAS annual review forms. I attend EHCP annual review meetings online where I'm not teaching or otherwise booked, chargeable at hourly rate. Additional report writing on request, also at hourly rate.

Reports

Formal written progress reports are available on request, at additional cost.

For families home educating, I'm happy to contribute to annual home education reports - typically about two pages of A4, chargeable at hourly rate, and you'll always see a draft before it goes anywhere.

Where a family books an assessment and the assessor asks for my observations, I'm glad to contribute - brief observations without charge, a more extensive report at my hourly rate. Depending on where you are, I may be able to recommend an assessor I've worked with.

Tuition is set out in full on the tuition page.

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What lessons are like

  • In tutoring sessions with our daughter, Joanna was always fun, enthusiastic and very patient. This was not always easy as many of our tutoring sessions were conducted online during the pandemic, where learning conditions could be challenging …She came up with inventive online games and sensory activities which helped embed learning. Her warmth and encouragement was very effective in building our daughter’s confidence and self-esteem.

    Parent of A, 2021

  • Every week Jo prepares a lesson that never fails to engage my daughter. She looks forward to seeing Jo because her lessons are fun. Jo creates fresh, exciting content for each lesson that is perfectly pitched for where the child is at.

    Home Educating Parent of I, 2021

  • W says that of all the things he has to help him with his dyslexia (extra literacy interventions at school, being allowed to use a laptop for long pieces of written work, reading with us, extra time in exams), his sessions with Jo are the most helpful. He says it’s because they’re fun, he can stay at home, he can do them with his favourite cuddly toy and he doesn’t feel different in front of his peers at school.

    Parent of W and T, July 2024

  • Joanna is very flexible with her planned lessons, switching to other methods or activities if a child is tiring or finding something too easy, or too challenging.

    Parent of A, 2021

  • She really loved the lesson — she’s asked for it to be everyday

    J, mother of L

  • My son has really enjoyed the lessons. He loves the games played to practice reading words. The tiles used to help learn spellings has been very effective. I think the lessons are perfect for neurodivergent families like ours. Joanna is great at taking any pressure away during the sessions and engaging with my son. I love that future lessons can be adapted to include his specialist subjects (history & dinosaurs!)

    Jennifer, July 2026

  • Lessons were always engaging, well planned and met child where she was at.

    — Anonymous