Targeted maths tutoring for your secondary pupils
Boost attainment and help disadvantaged pupils pass their maths GCSEs and SATs, with Action Tutoring’s low-cost, impactful secondary maths programme.
We’re committed to closing the attainment gap in maths
As a charity, we fundraise to subsidise a large portion of the cost of a programme to reduce the impact on tight school budgets. Our programmes are heavily subsidised to help us ensure they can be accessed by the pupils that need them the most.
Addressing the challenge of maths attainment
For many secondary schools, ensuring all pupils achieve strong outcomes in maths is a significant challenge. Particularly for pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds, gaps in foundational knowledge can hinder progress and impact exam results.
Action Tutoring provides a proven solution. Our structured, curriculum-aligned maths programme is designed to address these challenges, focusing on building confidence, improving understanding, and ultimately, driving attainment.
In 2023-24, disadvantaged pupils attending 10 or more sessions increased their chances of passing GCSE maths by 17%, in comparison to the national pass rate.
If you’re from a state-maintained secondary school with at least 18% of pupils eligible for the Pupil Premium, you could be eligible to access our maths tuition at a substantially reduced cost.
How our programme works
- Identifying pupils:
Schools identify pupils who would benefit most from additional support in maths. Pupils selected should be eligible for Pupil Premium funding or not otherwise have access to private tutoring.
- Tailored tutoring sessions:
We provide volunteer tutors who are trained to deliver structured tutoring sessions in maths. These sessions are delivered either in-person at the school or online, in small groups of 2-3.
- Regular progress monitoring:
Action Tutoring works with schools to track pupils’ progress throughout the programme. Regular assessments and feedback ensure that tutoring sessions are responsive to pupils’ evolving needs.
- Curriculum alignment:
Our tutoring sessions are aligned with the national curriculum, ensuring that pupils receive support that directly complements what they are learning in class. Our sessions are focused on high-scoring topics in exams.
Key benefits include flexible delivery, comprehensive reporting and a dedicated programme coordinator, ensuring minimal additional workload for your schools. You can read more about how our programmes work in more detail here.
Supporting pupils in Year 7
Our resources are designed as a catch up programme for pupils who were still working towards standard at the end of key stage 2. A focus on key areas like numbers, calculations and proportion fills the gaps to help ensure they can be confident with key stage 3 material.
The materials are aimed at pupils who struggle with high-scoring, multiple-step exam questions, using the ‘chunking technique’ and focusing on how language links to calculations.
Take a look at our Year 7 maths curriculum guide.
Supporting pupils in Year 10 and Year 11
Our key stage 4 resources contain 52 key topics that can be chosen based off our baseline assessments or the school’s own gap analysis, focusing on foundation and crossover topics.
Within the skill based workbook we have ‘purposeful practice’, which specifically looks at pupils making connections and being efficient with the methods they use. These ‘same surface, different depth’ activities help pupils with worded questions, supporting them to move off autopilot and become more analytical.
Take a look at our key stage 4 maths curriculum guide.
Join the EEF evaluation of Action Tutoring
Action Tutoring is proud to partner with the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) and two sector-leading research organisations in 2025-26 to evaluate the impact of its tutoring programme for young people in secondary schools.
If you’re from a state-maintained secondary school with at least 18% of pupils eligible for the Pupil Premium, you could be eligible to access our maths tuition at a substantially reduced cost.
If your school doesn’t meet the specific criteria for participation in this trial, you can still partner with us this academic year or for 2025-26.
What our school partners say
In 2023–24 we supported 2,721 secondary pupils. Take a moment to hear why other schools love partnering with Action Tutoring:
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