Tute for
Non-mainstreams
Combining expert teaching with our advanced online learning platform to ensure that any student, anywhere has access to high-quality education.
Tute Education has been working in partnership with non-mainstream settings in England and Wales for over 12 years. We partner with hundreds of schools, providing learning solutions that meet the needs of each individual setting and their students. We package our lessons into different curriculums that provide flexibility, suit different priorities, and work for varying budgets. We can deliver a solution that meets your needs and your students, whatever their circumstances.
We can...
- Provide a blended, scalable approach to add capacity and help meet complex learning needs
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Support students with Alternative Provision for short, medium or long term periods of time across
key stages 1 - 5 - Focus on catch up or keep up targeted interventions to help students fulfil their potential
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Provide access to qualifications by delivering GCSE and
A-level courses across a wide range of subjects and awarding bodies
Students currently learning with Tute
We put the student at the heart of everything we do and empower them to learn in a safe and secure online environment, with qualified teachers in live lessons. Labels might lead students to Tute, but we see beyond them here.
All are welcome.
- Anxiety
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD)
- Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD)
- Child Looked After (CLA)
- Emotionally Based School Avoidance (EBSA)
- Educational Health Care Plan (EHCP)
- Free School Meals (FSM)
- Gypsy Roma Traveller (GRT)
- Medical needs
- Most Able and Talented (MAT)
- Permanently excluded and at risk of exclusion (PEX)
- Pupil Premium (PP)
- Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND)
- Social, Emotional, and Mental Health (SEMH)
- Young offenders
- Teenage parents
- Unaccompanied Asylum-Seeking Children (UASC)
Student voice
Recommended by students
Students love learning with Tute (don’t just take our word for it, see what our students think).
I’m looking for...
- Alternative provision
- Qualifications
- Intervention
- ESOL
Virtual School | KS3 Courses | GCSE Courses | Tute Go | Learning Programmes | |
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Length of provision | Short- medium | Medium- Long term | Medium- Long term | Short, medium, or long term | Short, medium, or long term |
Key stages | KS1 | KS2 | KS3 | KS4 | KS3 | KS4 | KS1 | KS2 | KS3 | KS4 | KS1 | KS2 | KS3 | KS4 |
Subjects | Core + more | Core + more | 19+ | 30+ | 30+ |
Content | National curriculum Tute chooses* |
National curriculum Tute chooses* |
Exam boards Tute choose* |
Tute curriculum menu You choose |
Bespoke You choose |
Students (<12) | Students from different partners | Students from different partners | Students from different partners | Your students only | Your students only |
Timetable | Tute sets | Tute sets | Tute sets | You set | You set |
Formal assessment | No | Yes | Yes | Yes (when required) | Yes (when required) |
Progress reports | No | Yes | Yes | No | No |
Cost | £12.50 | £16 | £16 | £95 (£55*) | £120 |
Pay profile | Per student, per lesson | Per student, per lesson | Per student, per lesson | Per group, per lesson *1:1 | Per group, per lesson *1:1 |
Functional Skills Courses | GCSE courses | A Level Courses | |
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Key stages | KS4 | KS5 | KS4 | KS5 |
Subjects | English and maths | 19+ | 15+ |
Content | Exam boards Tute chooses |
Exam boards Tute chooses |
Exam boards You choose |
Students (<12) | Students from different partners | Students from different partners | Your students only |
Timetable | Tute sets | Tute sets | You set |
Formal assessment | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Progress reports | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Cost | £16 | £16 | Get in touch |
Pay profile | Per student, per lesson | Per student, per lesson | Per student, per course |
Tute Go | Learning Programmes | |
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Key stages | KS1 | KS2 | KS3 | KS4 | KS1 | KS2 | KS3 | KS4 |
Subjects | 30+ | 30+ |
Content | Tute curriculum menu You choose |
Bespoke You choose |
Students (<12) | Your students only | Your students only |
Timetable | You set | You set |
Formal assessment | Yes (when required) | Yes (when required) |
Progress reports | No | No |
Cost | £95 (£55*) | £120 |
Pay profile | Per group, per lesson *1:1 | Per group, per lesson *1:1 |
ESOL Virtual School | ESOL Tute Go | |
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Suitable for | Secondary to 16+ | Primary to 16+ |
Level | Beginners | English Pre-entry | English Entry 1 | English Entry 2 | English Entry 3 | Beginners | English Pre-entry | English Entry 1 | English Entry 2 | English Entry 3 |
Subjects | ESOL | Everyday English for ESOL students | ESOL | Maths for ESOL students | Citizenship for ESOL students | SMSC for ESOL students |
Content | Tute chooses | Tute curriculum menu You choose |
Students (<10) | Students from different partners | Your students only |
Timetable | Tute sets | You set (subject to availability) |
Pre-assessment | No | Yes |
Formal assessment | No | Yes |
Progress reports | No | No |
Cost | £12.50 | £95 (£55*) |
Pay profile | Per student, per lesson | Per group, per lesson *1:1 |
Our partners
Our service at a glance
Delivering quality and support
Fill critical gaps in education
We fill gaps in education, enabling any child, anywhere, to reach their real potential.
Deliver live online lessons
Our qualified teachers deliver live online lessons in a purpose-built, safeguarded online classroom.
Provide flexible curriculums
Our lessons are packaged into curriculums to meet the diverse needs, priorities, and budgets of education settings.
Support partners
Our dedicated partnership team takes care of the heavy lifting, so you don’t have to, ensuring seamless collaboration and operational efficiency.
Nurture students
We provide extensive support to nurture students' wellbeing and academic progression, helping them thrive.
Engage parents
We keep parents well-informed and actively engaged in their child's learning journey, offering support whenever needed.
Facilitate rapid enrolment
Understanding the importance of speed in education, we guarantee enrolment within 48 hours, often within 24.
Ensure quality
Our dedicated in-house quality team safeguards and quality assures learning, delivering a consistently high-quality education.
Achieve outcomes
We help settings meet statutory obligations and support students in achieving attendance, engagement, transition, and/or qualifications.
Getting started
No contracts, no commitments, and no upfront payment. With a fast 48-hour turnaround, you’ll have immediate support and be ready to provide your students with the education they deserve.
Enrol nowGet in touch
Contact us to schedule a free taster lesson or consultation with our team.
Consultation call
We’ll discuss your specific needs, help you choose the right curriculum, and set up a solution that works for your students and budget.
Get access to the platform
We’ll send you a platform invitation, along with login credentials for your team, students, and parents, giving you access to progress, engagement, and attendance reports.
Conduct an IT test
We’ll run an IT test to ensure students can access their lessons without issues before they begin.
Ready to start
Once everything is set up, your students can begin their lessons, and you’ll have full visibility of their learning.
Student onboarding
Once students have their log in details and timetable, their Tute teacher will explain how the Learning Cloud works, set expectations and then the learning journey begins.
Ongoing account management
We are here to support you, working in partnership with you. Our Partner Success team will manage your account and will set up regular review meetings.
Invoicing
Our pricing and invoicing is straightforward. We will invoice you for what you have used at the end of each half term. There is no contract, no upfront financial commitment and no complex fee structure. You can see our pricing options here.
Our platform
Combining technology with pedagogy to deliver high-quality education to any child, anywhere
Our curriculums and solutions
Key stages 1-5
Key stages 1-5
We offer a rich, inclusive curriculum that supports progression pathways for all students, long-term or short-term.
Learn moreAlternative provision
Alternative provision
Reliable solutions for students unable to attend mainstream schools, ensuring they learn on par with their peers.
Learn moreQualifications
Qualifications
Pathways to qualifications in 30+ subjects at Level 1/2, GCSE, and A Level, providing alternative provision, extra capacity and/or subject specialism.
Learn moreESOL
ESOL
Essential English lessons for speakers of other languages, for under-16s and adults, focusing on real-life speaking and listening skills.
Learn moreIntervention
Intervention
Bespoke learning programmes for revision, tuition, reintegration, and more, tailored to meet specific needs and objectives.
Learn moreCurriculums
Curriculums
Flexible curriculums catering to various needs, budgets, and priorities, offering both short-term and long-term solutions.
Learn moreFAQs
Our IT team will be in contact with your named IT contact once the booking forms have been submitted for your school. Once the Network Manager / 3rd Party company / LA have configured their firewalls as per our technical requirements, the test itself just involves somebody mimicking the student journey. They need to access their school network as one of their students would (student network / PC log in) and ideally be in the exact location Tute lessons will be accessed from, ideally using the same equipment (device & headset) that a student would for Tute.
Enrolling students is very straightforward and we can normally get a student set up within 48 hours for shared provision and within 10 days for private provision. It can take a little longer at exceptionally busy times.
If you are new to Tute Education then simply get in touch with our onboarding team. They will talk you through the options and send you all the information you need to register and get started. You can get in touch with them here.
If you are an existing Tute Education partner you can access the Partner Hub which has all the information you need.
We work in partnership with non-mainstreams. Our consultative, collaborative approach and dedicated team supports and empowers all our partners to enable meaningful student outcomes.
If you are new to Tute, the best way to find the right solution for is to speak with our onboarding team. They will discuss the needs and challenges faced by individual students or groups of students and then we can recommend the Curriculum that is right for your students, and your budget. To book a call with the onboarding team click here.
If you are an existing Tute partner then your account manager will be happy to give you support and guidance. You can find your account manager here: (We might want to list out the areas for our AM in the team section?
The length of time it takes to process a booking will depend on the type of provision you are booking.
Shared provision: Students can be enrolled into Shared lessons within 24-48 hours of us receiving your completed booking form.
Private provision: we aim to set private provision within 10 days, but bookings can be processed quicker or slower depending on the size of the booking that you make and the time slots you wish to have.
Students need a device to access their Tute lessons. Our students access their lessons via laptops, tablets and sometimes on their phones too. Ideally students will also have headphones to ensure they aren’t interrupted or distracted during their lessons.
Details on how to log in will be emailed. Students will keep their login details throughout their time with us at Tute.
Students learn in small groups at school, and often love interacting with peers. Research from a small-scale trial at Durham University found a positive effect for Tute lessons compared to students not taking Tute lessons.
Research undertaken by Doctoral candidates at the University of Chester showed that 90% of students would recommend Tute to others, and that 88% feel that they learn new things.
Students can access Tute Education from anywhere. 93% of our students access their online lessons from home but we also have cohorts of students who access their lessons whilst they are at school.
No. Our teachers use webcams and are visible to our students, but we ask that students keep their webcam switched off. Students cannot be seen by our teacher, or by one another.
Yes, you can book our private provision if you wish to arrange 1:1 lessons for a student.
All Tute students should be supervised by an appropriate adult at the location they are joining our lessons from. Whilst we uphold rigorous safeguarding standards in our online environment, we cannot be responsible for the physical safety of students and responsibility for this lies with the commissioner.
Safeguarding of students is of paramount importance and everyone at Tute is DBS checked and signed up to the updates service. Additionally, all of our lessons are recorded to provide an additional level of protection. Student’s do not turn on their cameras, but the teachers will always have their camera on so that students can see and engage with their teacher. The platform includes profanity filters and personal details (like email/phone numbers) cannot be exchanged between students.
96% of pupils feel safe in Tute lessons according to feedback.
You can read more about our Safeguarding policy here.
Shared provision is when your students attend lessons with students from other education settings. There is a maximum of 12 students within shared provision.
Private provision can be commissioned and can either provide 1:1 lessons or a private classroom for a group of students from one education setting.
Teachers will update the progress tracker for their groups within 24 hours of the lesson having taken place. You can log into your account to review attendance, engagement and progress.
Your account manager will set up regular review meetings with you too but if you have any queries you can contact them at any point.
You will be notified if a student has not arrived for their lesson, or is late for their lesson.
Our teachers continually assess how students are getting on. If they feel a student would benefit from moving to a different group or level they will pass this information onto you for discussion.