About Us
ATTAINERS provides English tuition, coaching and revision for students who wish to excel. As English literature and language specialists with an excellent track record, we are in the best position to help students maximise their attainment in English exams. We provide bespoke, targeted help throughout the school year and during the study leave or pre-exam period.
Five Reasons To Choose Attainers
1 We are specialists
- developed especially to cater for the reformed exam specifications
- experience of teaching at secondary and university level
- examiner’s training
- in-depth knowledge of specification requirements
- focus on both knowledge and skills
- structured coaching and revision according to exam question format
2 We are different
- we structure coaching and revision to match the skills and knowledge required for each section of each exam paper
- we teach the response-related thinking patterns necessary to produce high-score answers
3 We offer a personalised service
- work with your strengths
- targeted help
- step by step
- varied in intensity
- mock papers with diagnostic feedback
- acknowledge individuality and teach you to use it to your advantage in the highly prescriptive context of the reformed exams
4 ATTAINERS coaching results
- consolidate knowledge
- enhance skills
- boost confidence
- perfect exam technique and time management
- maximise attainment
5 We aim beyond exam success. ATTAINERS coaching will equip you with transferable skills – for life, not just exams:
- read for a purpose
- select relevant material for a particular task
- understand how language is used to influence
- engage productively with others’ views
- present own views clearly and support them with evidence
- keep focused on demanding, longer tasks
- produce a convincing argument
- retrieve and connect creatively various elements from the bank of information you already possess
- analyse and synthesise
- think critically and originally
- recognise, reproduce and manipulate patterns of thought
Attainers is headed by Cristina
I have developed ATTAINERS building on 30+ years’ experience of teaching English at both secondary and university levels, across age groups, systems and cultures. I also trained and worked as an English examiner. I am a passionate believer in education as a journey in which, as well as meeting exam specification requirements, you gain the learning habits that will serve you for life.
ATTAINERS will help students develop both knowledge and skills. The goal is to create and maintain patterns of response behaviour according to the type of question that will be examined. Put simply, we aim to help students make sure that, when they sit their exams, their mental drawer marked “English” contains all the tools and materials to create an amazing response, and that tools and materials are well organised in a series of smaller boxes ready to lift and use with confidence for each particular paper and question.
We will guide and support students each step of their journey, through consolidation and revision, to help them reach their full potential and become the very best ATTAINERS.
