Jan Stringer has been teaching 11+ since 2000. She is a qualified teacher (with a BA QTS from Warwick University) and has taught both as a class teacher and a music teacher in a number of schools including international schools in Copenhagen and a range of primary schools in Wiltshire. Jan started tutoring for 11+ around her kitchen table about 22 years ago and her lessons grew so much that she has needed help from 7 other tutors.
Her teaching style is fun but firm. She likes a joke, but also makes students work hard. She can be a nag-bag when it comes to getting pupils to write things down and to be thorough with their work. Somehow though, the students still seem to like her!
Her teaching style is fun but firm. She likes a joke, but also makes students work hard. She can be a nag-bag when it comes to getting pupils to write things down and to be thorough with their work. Somehow though, the students still seem to like her!
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Alison Gale joined SalisburyElevenPlus in 2016, following a rigorous selection process and beating a host of excellent candidates, and since that time has tutored a range of 11+ classes. Alison also understands the 11+ process (agony) as a parent, having supported her eldest two children through the 11+ and into BWS.
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Janette Diomede (B.Ed Sussex University) has taught in Wiltshire primary schools over a long (many years!) and varied teaching career. She has two grown-up children and now enjoys spending more time with her growing brood of grandchildren.
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Mike Gale is a qualified Maths teacher and currently teaches just over the border in Hampshire. Mike has been tutoring the 11+ with SEP since 2018. When not teaching, he can generally be found programming PCs, walking the dog or out on his bike.
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Natalie Drummond is a qualified primary school teacher who has taught in a variety of schools in Bristol, London and, most recently, Forres Sandle Manor. In recent years, she has also prepared students for 11+, Common Entrance and SATS. In her spare time she enjoys cooking and entertaining and going for long walks with friends and her son.
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John Stringer studied maths at Cambridge and then went into a career in IT, primarily in data visualisation. He has been assisting Jan since the beginning and became a full-time tutor in 2012. He is not a qualified teacher, but understands the 11+ process brilliantly and children enjoy his lessons. He is great at teaching maths in many different styles. He is not strict and children have a lot of fun, but if your child wants quiet classrooms and calmness, it might be best to choose a different tutor.
A traumatic brain injury whilst playing football with some 11+ students in 2020 led to a coma, a long spell in hospital and means his short-term memory is not brilliant - so if you give him an important message, it is a good idea to either follow it with an email or watch him write the message down! It also means that a 5 minute break in the lesson to play mad-style football has been stopped. Sorry about that. |
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Sarah Robertson did a fantastic job bringing her children through the 11+, so when we needed a tutor in 2022, we thought she would be perfect for the job. She didn't disappoint and has been persuaded to carry on.
In her spare time, Sarah enjoys the outdoors, never far from a pair of trainers, she’s an enthusiastic runner often spotted out on local trails and occasionally paddle-boarding in the nearby rivers. Her family also enjoy hosting foreign students from a variety of countries, France, Italy, Spain and Switzerland so far. |
Chloe Franklin. Just like Sarah, we spotted Chloe as a parent who would make a great tutor. Like a few of us, she is not qualified teacher, but she is contemplating a move in this direction. Chloe started in 2023.
We will also get a picture of Chloe as soon as we can.
We will also get a picture of Chloe as soon as we can.
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Jonas Stringer is our online tutor, using technology to bring his online classrooms to life in his second year of teaching group classes. He is currently studying Japanese at Durham University, but has grown up around the 11+ with experience of tutoring it one-to-one since 2019 and as a regular tutor since 2022. His tutoring style seems to be a lovely mix of both his parents - all the fun of John's classes with the hard work and focus of Jan's classes.
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