Elisa

Elisa won a bursary to Wellington College, where she was one of very few students worldwide to achieve the maximum 45 points in the IB and won prizes including the Gavin Ewart Poetry Prize and the Verrall English Prize. She went on to read English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford, earning the Casberd Scholarship after a Distinction in Prelims and graduating with a First.

Elisa began tutoring in 2012, teaching English as a foreign language in Romania while still at school, and has since taught everything from GCSE Maths and violin to Oxbridge preparation. Her particular expertise is English for 11+ and 13+ entrance exams. She has helped pupils win offers from schools including Channing and Francis Holland, and supported an IB student to a perfect 45 points and a place to read English at Oxford. She has also volunteered with children with disabilities through Joni and Friends.

Raised by an educational psychologist, Elisa believes great results come from confidence and a good rapport as much as hard work. She tailors her teaching to each child’s personal and academic needs, finding creative routes in, such as distilling English comprehension into formulas for a maths-loving pupil. She balances rigorous exam technique with intellectual curiosity beyond the syllabus, aiming to make work feel like fun.