For tutors
Bring in families. Keep them organised.
Tutors join TinyOak for two reasons. The first is straightforward — parents searching for an 11+ tutor in South London find us, and we send them to you. The second is the tooling that comes with the booking: a parent portal, marking, progress reports, and a safeguarding record. The kind of thing that's normally a stack of emails and a WhatsApp thread.
One — visibility
A directory parents actually use
The marketplace and the information hub are built together. Parents arrive through search — looking up the 11+ exam timeline, Dulwich admissions, bursaries, SEN navigation — and the directory sits alongside that content. They land informed, not cold.
Filters cover what parents actually ask about: subject, level, locality, SEN area of need, price band, delivery, and availability. Featured tutors appear first; verified tutors carry a clear trust badge. Featured-tier tutors can also book a limited number of promoted slots — on the home page, at the top of the directory, or on a specific school's guide page if they prepare pupils for it — by the week, month or quarter, with a better price the longer they book. Beyond the directory, parents can compare up to four tutors side by side before they enquire.
Two — the tooling
When a parent books, they land in your dashboard
This is the part that doesn't sound exciting in a tagline but matters more than the directory. The moment a parent confirms and pays for a trial session, TinyOak provisions:
- — A pupil record owned by you, tagged as "Booked through marketplace"
- — A parent area so the family can see lesson plans, marking and progress
- — Scheduling, intake, and a safeguarding record kept in one place
The booking moves the family out of WhatsApp and into a system that's set up for tutoring. You spend less time chasing files and more time teaching.
Three — trust
Vetting that means something
Parents trust marketplaces when the platform stands behind the tutors. We are building the verification programme deliberately — identity, DBS, qualifications, references, insurance — with the legal and data-protection groundwork done properly.
Until that's complete, no tutor displays a verified badge to the public. When the badge does appear, it will mean something: TinyOak has reviewed the documents and is willing to back the listing.
Get in touch
Want to be one of the first tutors on TinyOak?
We're seeding the first cohort of tutors by hand, one conversation at a time. If you teach the 11+ in South London and want to be considered, fill in the form and we'll be in touch.