Welcome to Nitty Gritty Learning

Nitty Gritty Learning aims to raise achievement in English and other subjects through Literacy and Functional Skills. Nothing unusual there, I hear you say. Well, true, but we do it in a way that both deepens your understanding of how we learn, and inspires and restores your passion for reading, writing, speaking and listening; whether an educationalist enthused by our bespoke training, or a pupil benefiting from it in the classroom. Read on to see how to pass those milestones to success.

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Don’t spend another penny on CPD until you have checked how Nitty Gritty Learning can help you and your pupils move forward. We provide tailor-made, effective, practical yet inspirational advice to raise the achievement of secondary pupils and make you a practitioner at your peak. To see how cost and learning effective our service is, click onto Teachers or read other educationalists’ views in Testimonials.

Just browsing through the list of ways we have helped others get down to the Nitty Gritty of learning should be enough to make you feel inspired.

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(We apologise, but we are unable to take further bookings for Milestones classes at present.)Turn your millstones into milestones with our after-school English classes: the route to Key Stage 3 and GCSE success. With no more than ten pupils to a class, our high quality, cost-effective English tuition aims to diagnose your child's strengths and weaknesses and then show precisely what needs to be done to progress to the next level.

We work closely with your child's school so that all sessions are embedded in the National Curriculum and relevant GCSE exam board assessment criteria. To find out more about venues, times and fees click onto parents, carers and pupils.