Live 1:1 mentorship in real Python, modern web and agentic AI — aligned with KS3–KS5 computing, GCSE Computer Science (AQA · OCR · Pearson), A-Level and the algorithmic depth Oxbridge, Imperial, UCL and the rest of the Russell Group quietly assume. £79 a month, eight live sessions, two a week, cancel any time.
Click any tile to open the course page. Every track is live, 1:1 (or small-group), and runs on UK time — same mentor every week, no rotation.
Real Python, JavaScript, Git and modern AI engineering on a 12-month arc. Maps to AQA 8525, OCR J277, Pearson 1CP2 at GCSE, and AQA 7517 / OCR H446 at A-Level. We coach BIO, Bebras and the Oxbridge interview pattern.
Scratch → real Python by month three. Tiny games, drawing apps, friendly first AI projects.
LLM apps, RAG, tool-using agents — the way DeepMind, Wayve and Synthesia engineers actually work.
Cambridge CSAT, Oxford admissions, Imperial, UCL, Warwick, Edinburgh — algorithmic interview depth.
Algorithms, system design, AI engineering top-ups for CS undergrads at any UK university.
For UK adults aiming at SWE, data and AI engineer roles. Builds the production-grade portfolio London, Manchester and Cambridge employers actually look at.
All-female mentor pairing, women-in-tech role models from London and Cambridge.
State, independent, prep and grammar schools. Code-club cohorts, after-school programmes, NEA support.
Click a Key Stage tab to see exactly what your child learns with us, and how it complements the National Curriculum & exam boards.
A gentle, mentor-led start. Sequencing, prediction, debugging — Computing at Schools' "Algorithms" strand for the youngest. Plenty of stories, very little screen time per session.
National Curriculum alignedThe bridge year. Students start in Scratch, progress to real Python by month three, ship a tiny project a month. We coach Bebras Challenge entries here too.
National Curriculum + BebrasThis is where school Computing often plateaus and home mentorship takes over. Students learn Python, JavaScript, HTML/CSS and Git — and ship real, deployed projects.
Sets up GCSE stronglyEvery concept in your child's GCSE specification, covered with a 1:1 mentor — programmable, demonstrable, exam-ready. We track which exam board the school uses and adapt.
AQA 8525 · OCR J277 · Pearson 1CP2The full A-Level specification, the NEA project, the British Informatics Olympiad, and the algorithmic depth Oxbridge, Imperial and UCL expect at interview. The deepest track we offer.
AQA 7517 · OCR H446 + Oxbridge prepTell us your school's exam board on the trial call. Your child's mentor pulls up the exact specification and aligns the term plan accordingly.
Specification 8525 · Paper 1 + Paper 2
Specification J277 · 01 + 02
Specification 1CP2 · Paper 1 + Paper 2
Specification 7517 · Paper 1 + Paper 2 + NEA
Specification H446 · 01 + 02 + 03/04
CSAT · MAT-style CS · Interview prep
Within two terms my daughter went from a predicted 5 in GCSE Computer Science to an 8. The mentor matched her exam board, fixed her Python head-on, and made the NEA feel like fun.
"My son's Oxford CS interview prep was outstanding. He got an offer."— Sanjay P. · London · Westminster School
"For £79 a month, better than any tutor we tried on Tutorful or MyTutor."— Hannah M. · Bristol
"I'm 28, switched into AI engineering at a London startup in nine months. Brilliant."— Tom W. · London (Hackney)
"My Year-4 daughter writes real Python at home now. We're stunned."— Priya S. · Edinburgh
Google DeepMind, Cohere, Anthropic UK, Mistral, Wayve, Stability, Synthesia, Octopus Energy AI, PolyAI. The densest LLM-engineering ecosystem in Europe.
ARM, Microsoft Research, AstraZeneca AI, Cambridge AI & the Department of Computer Science & Technology — your child's likeliest first dream.
Skyscanner, FanDuel, FreeAgent, plus the Bayes Centre at Edinburgh University. Strong Scottish-curriculum cohort for Higher Computing Science.
BBC Salford, Co-op AI, big banking-AI presence. Quietly excellent CS departments at Manchester, Leeds, Sheffield and Liverpool.
Computing is statutory from KS1. But school hours are limited and the jump from "first Python" to a real shipped product still happens at home — usually with a mentor.
Three boards, six syllabuses (GCSE + A-Level), one specification per school. We map your child's mentor plan to the right one in the first lesson.
British Informatics Olympiad (Y12+), Bebras Challenge UK (all years). Both are useful for Oxbridge personal statements and we coach for both.
Oxbridge, Imperial, UCL, KCL, Edinburgh, Manchester, Bristol, Warwick, Durham, Southampton, Leeds, Sheffield — CS demand outstrips supply at every one.
Names abbreviated. Each project deployed publicly during normal class hours and used by the student afterwards.
A Python program that randomly generates AQA-style 8525 questions from her revision notes, marks them, and tracks which topics she keeps losing marks on. Used by her whole class.
A web app that generates CSAT-style problems on the fly and explains solutions. Arjun used it for two months before his Cambridge interview — got an offer.
A Python quiz program with real input handling and scoring. Maya is 9. She runs the family quiz nights on it now.
His OCR A-Level NEA project: an agentic-AI assistant that pulls Premier League stats and answers questions about Manchester United form. Predicted A* on it.
Two siblings shipped a real Next.js web app to manage their family's chores rota. Real auth, real database — their Year 7 form teacher demoed it in assembly.
Daniel built an agentic-AI compliance summary tool for his Birmingham bank that saves his team eight hours a week. Switched into AI engineering on the back of it.
Every student is paired with one mentor for the year. Below is the kind of mentor you can expect — we match on personality, age group and exam board.
Ships LLM-powered products at a London or Cambridge AI company. Best fit for teens building real AI apps and adult career-switchers.
Cambridge or Oxford CS graduate. Best for Oxbridge interview prep, BIO coaching, A-Level NEA project supervision and Russell-Group admissions.
Python, TypeScript, Next.js, AWS. Best fit for KS3 teens shipping their first deployed sites and adults retraining into UK SWE roles.
Patient, child-development-aware, calm pace. Bridges Scratch to real Python so even Year 3 students leave able to write a working program.
£79 a month for 1:1 mentorship. £32 a month for a small-group cohort. No registration fee, no annual contract, pause for half-term or exam leave whenever you need.
Honest comparison. State-school after-school clubs, Tutorful / MyTutor private tutors, free YouTube, big online schools — they all have a place.
Six closer looks at the cities most of our UK families come from. Your city is supported even if it isn't listed.
Greater London · 32 boroughs
Our biggest UK cohort. Independent (Westminster, St Paul's, Highgate, City of London School), grammar (Tiffin, QE Boys, Wilson's), state (Camden School, Latymer, Mossbourne) and international (Southbank, ACS, Halcyon) families all served. Most popular slots: 17:00 and 18:30 UK time on weekdays, Saturday mornings for Year 7–9.
North-West · North-East
Strong KS4 GCSE demand — Manchester Grammar, Bolton School, Bradford Grammar, Leeds Grammar. Co-op AI on the doorstep. Adult learners often work towards London or remote SWE roles.
West Midlands
King Edward's foundation schools heavily represented. Adult learners often retraining into Birmingham fintech / HSBC roles. We map to AQA primarily here.
Scotland · Scottish curriculum
Different curriculum — Scottish National 5 → Higher → Advanced Higher Computing Science. We adapt and have mentors specifically for it. Strong appetite for Edinburgh University CS prep.
Silicon Fen · Thames Valley
About 35% of our Cambridge / Oxford cohort are sixth-formers aiming at the local universities themselves. Hills Road, Long Road, Magdalen College School. Oxbridge interview prep is the dominant request.
South-West
Bristol Grammar, Clifton College, Redmaids' High, plus a strong startup-AI scene. Family-paced learners; weekend mornings popular for KS2 cohorts.
Other regional hubs
Smaller cohorts but tightly served — same mentors, same exam-board mapping, full Russell-Group university prep if needed.
Northern Ireland · Wales
CCEA (NI) and WJEC / Eduqas (Wales) syllabuses are supported — mentors familiar with both. Smaller cohort means slot flexibility is excellent here.
A real 30-minute live lesson on your child's UK slot. We tailor a learning plan to where they are today and which exam board their school uses. No card, no commitment, no sales pressure.
Yes. Our KS4 track is aligned with AQA 8525, OCR J277 and Pearson Edexcel 1CP2 — the Python programming, computational thinking, algorithms, data representation, computer systems, networks, and ethical / legal / environmental components. Past papers, mark schemes and examiner reports are drilled from week 16.
Yes. Our KS5 track covers the full AQA 7517 and OCR H446 specifications — Python, OOP, data structures, algorithms, complexity, computer systems, networks, databases and the NEA project. We've coached A* and A-grade outcomes across both boards.
Yes. Our Oxbridge track covers Cambridge CSAT, Oxford computer-science admissions, the algorithmic depth Imperial, UCL, Edinburgh, Warwick, Manchester, Bristol and Durham expect, and BIO Round 1 & 2 problems. Mentors include Oxbridge CS graduates.
Fully supported. We have mentors specifically familiar with SQA National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher Computing Science. The mapping to our Python track is excellent.
Yes — both supported. Tell us your school's exam board on the trial call; your child's mentor adapts the term plan to match.
Private 1:1 mentorship is USD 100 (about £79) per month — 8 sessions, 2 per week. Small-group cohort is USD 40 (about £32) per month on the same schedule. Billing is in USD via Stripe; your bank applies the live GBP conversion.
Mentors work UK time (GMT in winter, BST in summer). Slots cover 09:00 – 21:00 — after-school, evening or weekend morning. Most KS3/KS4 families pick 17:00 or 18:30. A-Level families lean later (19:30). Year 3–6 families like Saturday morning.
Real AI engineering. Students build LLM-powered applications end-to-end — prompting, structured output, retrieval-augmented generation, tool-calling, multi-step agents, evaluations and deployment. The same patterns engineers ship at DeepMind, Wayve, Cohere, Anthropic, Synthesia, Stability and Mistral's UK teams.
Under-13s never operate LLM APIs against the open internet without a mentor present. We use age-appropriate models, guardrailed prompts, content filters and a "sandbox-only" rule for the youngest learners. Parents see exactly what tools are introduced each month and can opt out of any.
Yes — we've taught students from Westminster, St Paul's, Eton, Winchester, Highgate, City of London, Manchester Grammar, Cheltenham Ladies', Wycombe Abbey, Tiffin, QE Boys, Wilson's, Hills Road, Long Road, Camden School, Mossbourne and many more. Mentors adapt vocabulary to what your child already hears at school.
The first trial is always free. After that, you can cancel or pause any time before the next billing cycle. If a month has just renewed and you'd like to stop, contact us within 7 days and we'll refund the unused portion — we'd rather you came back later than feel locked in.
You decide. Most UK families pause during half-term and the GCSE / A-Level study-leave weeks; some use them for an exam-prep sprint instead. Pause any month with one message to your mentor — no fee, no awkward conversation.
VS Code, the terminal, Git and GitHub, Python 3, Node, modern browsers and a deploy target (Vercel, GitHub Pages, Hugging Face Spaces). For AI work: OpenAI, Anthropic and Google AI SDKs, plus Chroma / Pinecone for retrieval and LangGraph for agents.
A typical first month for a Year-9 student starting from zero. Pacing adapts up or down for younger or older learners.
Free 30-minute trial lesson on Zoom. Mentor candidate meets your child, gets a feel for prior Code Club / Scratch / school-Computing exposure, screen-time tolerance and any GCSE / A-Level pressure. Calendar invites for the next two UK slots.
First two real sessions. Sequencing, decomposition, debugging — the joy of "the bug is mine to fix." Older students start in Python in VS Code; under-9s start in Scratch. Always real, no drag-and-drop blocks past age 9.
VS Code installed, Python 3 running, terminal no longer scary. First original program — not from a tutorial — with input/output, variables, loops. Pushed to your child's first personal GitHub repository.
End-of-month checkpoint: a small project chosen by the student — a Premier-League stats lookup, an A-Level past-paper quiz, a London-weather widget — shipped to GitHub Pages or Vercel. You receive a written progress note from the mentor.
Full names withheld on request. Each is a real adult student who joined and ended up in a software, data or AI role at a UK employer.
British understatement. We'd rather lose your business than mis-sell our school.
The honest version. This is what one 1:1 session looks like for a Year-10 student in their third month with us.
Two minutes of "how was the week" — the human bit. The mentor scrolls back the chat history, cameras come on for both. Settles the student.
A 6-minute recall test of last lesson's idea. Not for marks — for the brain. The mentor watches for the lightbulb moments and the cobwebs.
Ten minutes of new material. Live-shared VS Code via Zoom. Mentor types two lines, student types the next two. Wrong moves are welcomed. Errors are read aloud.
The student leads. The mentor coaches. This is where most of the actual learning happens — pushing a feature, fixing a bug, refactoring a function. The mentor types nothing; only asks.
Five minutes to look back at what was written. What's good? What could be cleaner? The student names one thing they're proud of. This bit matters more than it sounds.
Mentor writes a 4-line note to the parent: what was covered, how the student felt, optional homework, plan for next class. Cameras off. Done.
We're not affiliated with any of these schools — we simply mentor the students who attend them. We know each school's GCSE / A-Level board, project culture and entrance-test rhythm.
Independent boys' school. Demanding Computing department. Many of our students from here aim at Cambridge or Imperial CS.
Independent boys' school. Strong CS culture and a steady flow of Oxbridge offers each cycle. We help with NEA project depth.
The most Cambridge-CS-feeding sixth form in the country. We coach CSAT prep and interview pattern problems extensively.
Independent boys' school with strong North-West CS pipeline. Many of our MGS students aim at Manchester, Warwick or Imperial.
Grammar schools in London / Surrey. Heavy GCSE Computer Science enrolment. We supplement their already-strong CS departments with real shipped projects.
One of London's strongest state secondary schools. Many of our students from here are women aiming at Russell-Group CS programmes.
State and grammar schools with serious CS departments. Excellent fit for our 1:1 mentorship model.
International schools in London and beyond. Our English-first delivery sits naturally alongside IB and Cambridge IGCSE programmes.
These are the questions British parents type into Google at 11 pm before their trial call. We'd rather just answer them in advance.
It's a fair worry. Our sessions are 45 minutes, twice a week — total 90 minutes — and most of that time the child is creating, not consuming. Mentors enforce screen-off breaks during the session. Many of our British parents tell us their child chooses to spend less time on TikTok / YouTube Shorts after a few months.
No. We start in Scratch only as a bridge, and only for KS1 – early KS2. By month three almost every student writes real, runnable Python that imports real libraries, handles real errors and pushes to a real GitHub repo. We deliberately avoid "Python for kids" tools that hide the real language.
No lock-in. You can cancel any month — no fee, no awkward conversation. If your child loses interest, we'd rather hear about it early and either pause or pivot the project track (game design, music programming, AI art) than have you grit your teeth through a year you paid for.
Under-13s never interact with raw LLM APIs against the open internet without a mentor present. We use age-appropriate models, guardrailed prompts, content filters and a "sandbox-only" rule. The AI tools your child builds are educational and reviewable by you — you see every prompt and every output. We're stricter on this than most.
Many of our most successful students started shy. The first lesson is structured around the code, not the camera — your child stares at VS Code, not at a stranger's face. Mentors are trained to give long pauses, no pressure. Most shy students are comfortable by lesson three.
No. Bootcamps compress 12 weeks of intense, transactional study aiming at a job. We're the opposite: a slow, year-round mentorship that respects how British school terms work. We don't promise jobs after 12 weeks. We promise a real codebase, real GitHub history, real mentor relationship.
School Computing is generally excellent at theory and group-paced learning. What's harder in a classroom is depth, individual pace and modern AI engineering — three things that need 1:1 attention. Many of our British students take school Computing AND us, and the two reinforce each other.
Yes — NEA project coaching is one of our most-requested deliverables. We help with topic scoping, technical implementation, written report structure, code-quality review and rehearsal of the spoken viva where required. Many of our students cite the mentor in their NEA acknowledgements.
Yes. We map the mentor plan to your child's school's exam board (AQA / OCR / Pearson / CCEA / WJEC / SQA) — not the mentor's preference. The mentor's job is to learn your spec; not the other way round.
Yes. We coach students on Pearson BTEC Level 3 IT and Computing units, particularly the programming and data units. Many of our BTEC students use us to deepen their technical portfolio for university applications.
Year 7 is perfect. The KS3 track has been designed for absolute beginners at age 11. By Year 9 your child will have a year and a half of real Python under their belt — heading into GCSE Computer Science decisions with confidence. Year 7 is also a low-pressure window, which makes the learning land deeper.
On request, yes — within reason. We write a one-page summary of your child's progress that you can share with their Computing teacher or Head of Year ahead of a parents' evening. We don't replace the school relationship; we complement it.
Yes. Bebras is coached implicitly via our KS2 / KS3 track — most of our students do well in their school's Bebras sitting. For BIO (Years 12–13), we have dedicated Oxbridge-alum mentors who coach Round 1 and Round 2 problems intensively.
Yes — many families intensify mentor support during exam-prep windows. We can switch a normal weekly session to a focused past-paper drill, or schedule extra hours by the hour if helpful. There's no contract change; just message the mentor.
Billing is in USD via Stripe — your Visa, Mastercard, Amex or Apple Pay card converts at the live GBP rate (typically about £79 for the 1:1 plan). We don't run UK direct-debit at this time but most British families find the card route simple.
Game development is serious coding. We have mentors who lean specifically into Pygame, Phaser, Godot and Unity. The Python, JavaScript, system-design and algorithmic skills your child builds while making games transfer one-to-one to Oxbridge applications or a job at any UK game studio.
Yes. Two siblings can share a 1:1 slot at a small discount, or join the same small-group cohort. Most often we pair siblings only when their levels are close; otherwise each progresses faster in their own slot.
We don't usually do upfront-year discounts — we'd rather you renew because the lessons are working, not because you're locked in. If you're paying for a long stretch and want to discuss, just ask the mentor. We're reasonable people.
Yes — we issue a Modern Age Coders certificate of completion at the end of each curriculum milestone (typically every six months), signed by the mentor, listing the projects shipped and skills demonstrated. It's not a regulated qualification but parents and students alike find it a nice trophy.
Mentors aim to reply within one UK working day to written questions between classes — faster if there's an exam window approaching. For anything urgent (e.g. a tech setup problem before the next class), WhatsApp tends to be quickest.
Yes — for students who have been with us at least six months, mentors are happy to write a short factual reference describing the projects shipped and skills observed. This is often cited in UCAS personal statements (especially for Russell-Group CS applications) as evidence of independent work.
Yes — even families not on a monthly plan can book one-off mentor hours before mock exams. Pricing for a one-off is typically a touch higher than the per-session rate inside the monthly plan, but there's no commitment. Just message us.
No quiz, no pop-up, no sales pressure. Leave a number, a UK-hours mentor rings within three hours, you decide everything from there.