Harry Darell came to us in the Easter holidays this year to work with our son, Cal, who was preparing for Common Entrance. Cal and Harry worked together for a couple of hours per day, three times per week. I think it is quite hard to engage some children at this age, especially one who is dyslexic and therefore struggling with English. The brief to Harry was to try and increase Cal’s confidence as much as his actual output as we believe that is half the battle. Harry definitely succeeded in achieving this goal. Cal was engaged throughout the holiday period and didn’t even moan when he had to do extra work! The Common Entrance exams have just ended and on speaking to Cal he feels they went really well and we are confident that his performance was due largely to Harry’s patience and determination. It goes without saying that Harry is consistently reliable and punctual. It just remains to say “Thank you”.

Harry mentored my son in history and interview technique for scholarship examinations. My son really enjoyed the lessons that he had with him and we appreciated his friendly constructive approach which really engaged my son in the process and boosted his confidence for the interview when he really needed it. I would highly recommend him.

Harry was excellent and George really liked him and found the lesson very helpful. George was pleased with the interview. He found the test challenging, but said that Harry had been a great help and in particular had taught him a maths ‘trick’ that proved very helpful! Harry was excellent and George really enjoyed working with him.

After a very productive visit, I can say that we were really very impressed with Harry. He has a very relaxed and friendly manner, which meant that our boys all took to him immediately. When it came to lesson time he was focused, goal oriented, efficient and on top of it all, very engaging. That is quite a combination. He is also clearly very experienced in this sort of tuition, and showed Stani many tricks to help him along in the ISEB test. Quite unexpectedly we have seen that these lessons have shown Stani skills that reach beyond the ISEB test, applicable also to his approach to sitting tests in his Austrian school. Harry has played quite a central role in showing our children the inspiring role a great teacher can have, and opened their eyes to a different way of learning. László read his first book in English with Harry, and enjoyed every minute. Even our third son Louis, still in kindergarten, managed to get himself a few hours with Harry- which he loved, even though I have known him not to be able to sit still for longer periods of time! Again, quite an accomplishment. I think we also appreciated that Harry seemed to be quite honest with us, though always very polite-which is actually very helpful when navigating boarding school decisions, especially from another country. Our initial goal was simply to help Stani get a foot in with this test for boarding school- but what we have ended up with is so much more. It really was a great success, and we look forward to working with Harry over the next months.