Tutoring
Gifted & Talented Tutoring
We provide support for families whose children are gifted and talented and need help to be appropriately challenged and academically stretched
Gifted & Talented Tutoring
- Experienced, caring teachers
- In-depth consultations on supporting your talented child
- Bespoke 1-1 tuition with highly qualified tutors
- Stretch your child and help them achieve their potential
- Proven excellent results
Our tuition services are delivered by Dukes Tutoring, a fully managed tutoring service run by caring teachers with over 20 years’ experience.
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Gifted and Talented Tutoring with Dukes Plus
Our highly experienced tutors and consultants help gifted and talented children achieve their considerable potential.
Gifted and talented students are often, surprisingly, frustrated at school. As they are not challenged in class, they can disengage from learning. And because they never have to develop the problem-solving skills or resilience which their peers, who find the curriculum more difficult, may do, they can struggle when they face greater challenges later in life.
Our tutors stretch the brightest minds – challenging them with higher-order thinking and topics from beyond the school curriculum. This can reinvigorate talented students and push them to reach the heights they are capable of.
Book a free consultation to discuss how we can support your child.
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How We Support Gifted and Talented Students
Many parents like to begin with an hour-long consultation with one of our Gifted and Talent Consultants. This takes the form of an advisory session for parents on how best to support their gifted children, taking into account your child’s strengths, experiences at school, and ambitions. Following the completion of the consultation we can arrange bespoke follow-on individual tutoring sessions in order to help your child meet the agreed goals.
A gifted child can be top of their class in maths and English and therefore considered to be ‘doing really well at school’. In fact, though, many such children are really coasting in class and are not nearly reaching their full potential. They can get bored very easily and switch off from learning. A gifted and talented tutor will have them working at a level beyond the school curriculum, ensuring they are stretched, engaged, and challenging themselves to reach their considerable potential.
Gifted children can often finish standard homework in seconds, but typically find it difficult when they are faced with real challenges because they’ve always found everything so easy. This means they tend to get very frustrated and give up too easily, as they have not built up any resilience or techniques to try to solve these types of problems. This can cause difficulties later on in their academic and professional careers if it is not addressed. Working 1-1 with a tutor, they will continually be challenged and will develop the learning mindset and problem-solving skills which will help them continue to thrive.
Our gifted and talented tutor and consultants s are outstanding teachers with many years’ experience and knowledge in this field. They push bright children in an engaging and motivating way and allowing them to progress through higher order thinking and logic puzzles, rather than just delivering the curriculum earlier to them.
All our support, from consultations to tuition, is delivered entirely 1-1. We match our consultants and tutors personally with your child, factoring in their academic strengths, interests, and personality, in order to achieve the best results.
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Our Approach to Tutoring Gifted and Talented Students
We are partnered with High Performance Learning (HPL). HPL, under the leadership of Professor Deborah Eyre, have created an evidence-based framework for enabling students to improve their academic performance.
HPL’s work is based on the principle that “the brain is in fact exquisitely plastic and is moulded over time, so we are not limited by our potential.”
For high-achieving children, this means that being at the top of the class or doing well at school should not be the ceiling of their ambitions. With the support of our gifted and talented tutors, children can outstrip their current academic level, continue to learn and improve, and achieve exceptional academic successes.
Our tutors know what it’s like to be an academically gifted child. Lessons move too slowly, your enthusiasm for school can wane, and learning itself, because it comes so easily, can lose its value.
With our gifted and talented tutoring, we challenge able children to keep pushing their limits. They develop the resilience that can only come from having to surmount difficulties and overcome failures. Their passion for learning is reinvigorated. And their academic abilities soar.
If this sounds like something your child could benefit from, book a free consultation with our friendly team today.
FAQs
Gifted and talented tutoring is specialist 1-1 tuition designed for children who are academically advanced beyond expectations for their age. Rather than covering the standard school curriculum, gifted and talented tutors work at a higher level. They introduce complex concepts, higher-order thinking, and enrichment material that challenges bright children. When the family of a gifted child come to us, our tutors focus on building the resilience, problem-solving skills, and intellectual curiosity they need to thrive long-term.
Common signs that your child may benefit include:
- Finishing classwork far ahead of peers
- Expressing boredom or frustration at school
- Complaining that school is too easy
- Underperforming despite clear ability (often because they are not sufficiently engaged)
If your child is consistently unchallenged in the classroom, a gifted and talented tutor can provide the stretch and stimulation they need.
Our tutoring is available for children of all ages, from primary school through to sixth form. Whatever their age, we can match them with a tutor who has the expertise to push them appropriately.
Standard tutoring typically involves supplementary teaching of the school curriculum, particularly supporting students who are struggling. Gifted and talented tutoring is the inverse: it stretches able students beyond what they already find easy.
Yes, in some cases. A child who consistently tops their class without ever being challenged is not reaching their potential; they are coasting. This can lead to disengagement, a low frustration tolerance, and underdeveloped problem-solving skills that cause difficulties later in their academic career.
Our tutors, who are trained in evidence-based frameworks including High Performance Learning (HPL), are experienced in re-igniting the enthusiasm of gifted learners and pushing them to achieve far beyond what their school environment demands of them.
Our gifted and talented tutoring is available both in-person in London and online, so families anywhere in the UK or worldwide can access our service. Online sessions are delivered by tutors of the same calibre as our in-person tutors, with no compromise in quality.
We can also arrange live-in or residential tutoring anywhere in the world. We have worked with many families who chose to have a full-time tutor live with them in order to ensure their child was stretched and challenged.
Our Tutoring Services
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7 Plus Tutors
Expert tutoring to help your child pass the 7 Plus and secure entrance to top schools in London and throughout the UK.
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11 Plus Tutors
Exceptional 11 Plus tutoring from experienced tutors, with proven success with all leading senior schools in London and the UK.
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13 Plus Tutors
Experienced 13 Plus tutors to prepare your child for Common Entrance, Pre-Tests, and ISEB assessments, helping them secure the senior school offers th …
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GCSE Tutors
100% success rate from dedicated, experienced, and engaging tutors driving successful GCSE preparation.
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A Level Tutors
Experienced and professional tutors for expert A Level preparation.
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International Baccalaureate Tutoring
1-1 tutoring designed to help students excel in the International Baccalaureate.
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Tutors for University Students
Our tutors provide in-depth learning, challenging sessions, and directed further reading and practice for university students.
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Oxbridge Tutors
Our vetted Oxbridge tutors are top graduates from Cambridge or Oxford, and form a global network of over 2,000 tutors.
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Ivy League Tutors
Take your test scores and personal essay to Ivy League standard with 1-1 coaching from our Ivy League tutors.
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Online Tutoring
Dedicated and exceptional fully-managed online tutoring services with flexible, personalised support for students in a range of subjects.
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SEN Tutoring
We have many years of experience working with and tutoring children with special educational needs
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Gifted & Talented Tutoring
We provide support for families whose children are gifted and talented and need help to be appropriately challenged and academically stretched
Delivered by Dukes Tutoring
Why Dukes Plus?
Dukes Plus is a provider of university application support, life-changing career and university experiences, day camps, tuition, and summer schools.
Dukes Plus’s university admissions consultants can enhance your applications to the world’s most selective institutions at every stage. We have a network of over 2,000 vetted admissions tutors who are experts when it comes to consultancy, admissions test prep, mock interviewing, and more.
We specialise in applications to Oxbridge and top UK universities, Ivy League and top US universities, medical schools, and drama schools.
Whether you are looking to test-drive your dream career working with industry leading professionals, or wanting to study at Eton or an Oxford college for the summer, we provide innovative and life-changing experiences that will enable you to make better life choices.
We offer the highest standards of 1-1 tutoring in any subject, at any level. Whether you’re preparing for school entrance exams, from 4+ to 16+, or getting ready for GCSEs, A Levels, or the IB, we can match you with the perfect tutor.
All our tutors are thoroughly vetted, highly experienced, and known to us personally.
We run the UK’s number one multi-campus summer school where students can learn languages and subjects at some of the UKs top educational institutions. We also provide holiday activity camps such as Ultimate Activity, Ultimate Tech, and Ultimate Sports camps.
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