GCSE & A-level tuition after school, on Saturdays, during half terms, Easter & summer, as well as for resits, single terms and academic years.

An exacting education

GCSE & A-level tutoring can be an academic lifestyle choice — not simply a crisis response, but a way to leverage normal school life into an exceptional education, sitting alongside sports and music lessons as a natural way to help children thrive.

Tuition at Newbury Study Hall is highly personalised yet supported by a community and formal structure: each student is tutored as an individual within our very small class settings.

Most programmes go beyond revision and remediation – they also preview new topics so that students are more confident and capable when they encounter them at school, ultimately transforming their normal classroom lessons into revision.

Programmes

Fees for all programmes are based on £40 per hour.

Tuition to fit around school:

After School, Saturdays
Half Terms, Easter, Summer

As an alternative to large colleges for students aged 16+:

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Short, intensive courses during holidays and half terms help students catch up or get ahead quickly.

Regular extra tuition during term time prevents students from falling behind, previews upcoming topics, and aims for the very highest grades.

Home-educated students can attend any programmes to benefit from the structure and community of a very small school environment.

Over the longer term, combining a state-school education with independent extra tuition can be an alternative to a full-time private school, setting students apart from their peers.

Welcome

Newbury Study Hall is an independent provider of GCSE and A-level tuition run by OISE, the Oxford-founded tutorial school established in 1973. Programmes for UK pupils were introduced in 2026 alongside the school’s longstanding work with international students.

Lessons are transformative additions to normal schooling. Added around ordinary school timetables, they cultivate the academic conscientiousness characteristic of a good education in pursuit of excellent results.

To succeed in exams
To develop a scholarly mind
To grow quietly confident

Programmes are open to pupils from all local secondaries and independents — Park House, Trinity, St Bartholomew’s, The Downs, Kennet, Cheam, Downe House, St Gabriel’s and others — as well as to home-educated children and to school leavers wishing to study A levels in a smaller setting.

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An alternative to independent schooling

Full-time independent school fees have moved beyond what many families can reasonably consider. Newbury Study Hall offers a different arrangement: state-school days complemented by small-group private tuition in the afternoons, on Saturdays and/or during holidays.

Pupils retain the social breadth of mainstream schooling while gaining the academic intensity, small classes and study habits more often associated with independent education. The total cost of a serious weekly programme remains a small fraction of full independent-school fees.

More on the independent-school alternative

Programmes

Pupils can attend a single subject once a week, several subjects on different days, or intensive revision weeks during school holidays and half terms.

Term dates align with local secondary schools’. Newbury Study Hall’s ten-week terms are the five weeks both sides of each local secondaries’ half terms.

Students can join anytime, space permitting.

After School

Weekdays 16:30–18:00
15 hours per 10-week term
£600 per subject per term
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Saturday Mornings

Saturdays, 09:30–12:30
30 hours per 10-week term
£1,200 per subject per term
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Holiday Revision

Half terms, Easter, summer
15 hours per programme
£600 per subject per week
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The OISE tutoring style

OISE masterclasses are tutored, not taught. They tailor principles and techniques of the Oxford tutorial and Cambridge supervision systems to benefit teenagers facing exams.

Pupils not only address difficulties with topics already encountered, they pre-learn material their schools will soon teach. Arriving at school already familiar with new topics transforms school into revision.

Pupils should target a grade or more of improvement per term. Those attending throughout a GCSE or A-level programme should target top grades by exam time.

Tutors are highly demanding and deeply compassionate, ensuring every individual pupil feels understood and challenged.