Real coding & AI for Irish students — from primary, through Transition Year, to Leaving Cert and beyond.

We deliver as an education-services provider registered outside Ireland, which is why no Irish VAT applies to your bill. Delivery is online-only — there is no Irish office to visit. We issue cross-border invoices in EUR or USD if you need one for accounting.

Yes. Direct alignment with the NCCA Junior Cycle Coding short course specification. Python, web fundamentals, computational thinking. CBA support is built into the secondary track.

Yes — full coverage of LCCS at both Higher and Ordinary Level. Practices & Principles, Core Concepts, Computer Science in Practice. Past-paper drills against State Examinations Commission marking schemes. Guided support on the 30%-weighted Computational Thinking project.

Yes. Many of our Irish LC students take both LC CS and LC Higher Maths. We have specialist Higher Maths mentors who run past-paper drills with worked solutions and focus on the topics that contribute most to the H1/H2 bands.

We can review the cover letter, prep the student for a Stripe / Intercom / Workday / Microsoft / Salesforce TY work-experience interview, and help shape their CV. We don't broker placements directly — that's the school's role.

Yes — we coach students for the IrMO. The Irish Maths Trust's IrMO selection moves through January–April; we calibrate our timetable around that schedule for serious aspirants.

Yes — many strong Irish students participate in BIO since there's no Irish Informatics Olympiad equivalent. We run dedicated algorithmic prep with mentors who have BIO-level competitive-programming experience.

GMT / IST (Irish Standard Time = British Summer Time). Same time zone as the UK. Most of our mentors are based in India (IST, 4.5–5.5 hours ahead of Ireland depending on DST) or the UK. Weeknight evening slots and Saturday morning slots are the norm.

Yes. Our LC specialists work directly from SEC marking schemes for past LC CS and LC Higher Maths papers. We do not guess what the SEC is looking for; we work from their published documents.

Private 1:1 mentorship is USD 100 (about EUR 92) per month — 8 sessions, two each week. Small-group cohort is USD 40 (about EUR 37) per month. No Irish VAT. No joining fee. Month-to-month, cancel anytime.

Either. Most Irish families pay by Visa or Mastercard (EUR-billed). Some pay by SEPA direct debit. Some pay by international transfer in USD. Whichever you choose, the amount converts at the spot rate on the billing date.

Yes. Some Irish schools issue school-managed devices that are locked down. We have a school-laptop setup path (VS Code in the browser via GitHub Codespaces, sandboxed Python when admin is locked). The mentor handles setup live during the first class.

Every mentor undergoes a structured 4-step interview, paid trial-teaching, and an Indian / UK-equivalent of a Garda Vetting / DBS background check. Many hold a Master's or PhD in Computer Science. We don't hire moonlighting graduate students.

You ask, we switch — free of charge, within 48 hours. About 1 in 30 families ask for a switch in the first two months.

Yes — automatically. During LC mock fortnight (February) and the State Examinations Commission LC fortnight (early June), we reduce intensity, switch to lighter review-style sessions, or pause entirely for the family that asks. No bill changes.

Yes — informally. Mentors with several years inside the Irish system can talk through the realistic gap between current performance and target CAO course-points. We do not provide formal guidance counselling; we complement (never replace) the school's guidance counsellor.

Yes — about 1 in 5 of our advanced Irish students apply to Cambridge, Oxford, Imperial or UCL via UCAS instead of (or in addition to) the CAO. We help shape the personal statement and the project portfolio that strengthens the UCAS application.

One email. No phone call required. No retention agent will hassle you. We stop billing on the cancellation date — no notice period, no last-month trick. The mentor runs any sessions already paid for, then closes out cleanly.

Under-13s never interact with raw LLM APIs without a mentor present. We use age-appropriate models, guardrailed prompts, content filters. The AI tools your child builds are fully reviewable by you. We're stricter on this than most.

No. We start in Scratch for the youngest learners (1st – 3rd class primary) and only as a bridge. By month three almost every student is writing real, runnable Python that imports real libraries, handles real errors and pushes to a real GitHub repo. We deliberately avoid "Python for kids" tools.

Code itself is taught in English (Python keywords are English; GitHub is English — that's universal). But for Gaelscoil / Gaelcholáiste students, we can pair them with a Gaeilge-fluent mentor who explains concepts in Irish and walks through code in English. We have a small but real Gaeilge mentor pool.

Most of our Irish families. The mentor sends a 2-line written session log after every class which parents can read in 10 seconds on WhatsApp. We never require a parent to be physically present.

Yes. Some families specifically prefer this option for daughters — we run a girls-only Ireland cohort with all-female mentors. The curriculum, depth and pricing are identical.

The mentor stays with your child. Only the time zone changes. We've onboarded relocating Irish families to London, Edinburgh, Sydney, Toronto and Vancouver many times.

Yes — a small annual scholarship pool for high-potential students whose families can't comfortably afford EUR 92 / month. Email us a short note from the parent + a piece of work from the child. We award 8 – 12 Ireland scholarships per academic year, 50%–100% of the monthly fee.

Sessions pause automatically during the official Irish school holiday weeks (Christmas: 2 weeks · Easter: 2 weeks · Summer: July & August by default unless the family wants summer-intensive blocks). No need to email us. The mentor coordinates make-up sessions in the following week if you want them.

Default is Zoom — what most Irish families are familiar with. If your school or family prefers Teams or Google Meet, mentors will use whichever you prefer.

It depends. If LC CS is one of their 7, then yes, we're directly useful — we cover the syllabus they'll be tested on, with 1:1 depth their school class size can't match. If LC CS is NOT in their 7, then honestly we'd suggest a different mentor (LC Higher Maths support, for instance). We won't push you into the wrong fit.

Two 45-minute sessions per week. Total ~90 minutes. We coordinate around their TY work-experience block (typically 2–3 weeks where we pause). Most TY students find the coding work actually relaxing compared to the academic stress they're avoiding — it's their break, not another grind.

Under-13s never interact with raw LLM APIs without a mentor present. We use age-appropriate models, guardrailed prompts, content filters and a "sandbox-only" rule.

Of course. Just say so on the callback. All-female mentor pool. Common from Mount Anville, Loreto Foxrock, Holy Child Killiney, Muckross Park, Pres Bray, Loreto Beaufort families.

None of our mentors are moonlighting graduate students. Every mentor is a full-time professional educator with 5+ years of teaching experience and a structured interview pipeline before they ever meet an Irish family.

Yes — identical. Online means location is irrelevant. The mentor pool, the curriculum, the pricing are all the same regardless of which county your child is in. We have students in Donegal, Kerry, Wexford, Mayo getting the same quality as students in Dublin 4.

Yes — specifically. About 18% of our Irish students are in DEIS-designated schools. Our scholarship pool prioritises this cohort. Just ask honestly on the callback if money is the blocker; we'll work something out.