Online specialised tuition and coaching for children and teenagers in Dubai and the UAE.

Friendship turnover is the theme that comes up most. Children learn to make friends quickly, and some also learn to hold something back. Ruby and your child work on both the making and the losing, because the second one is what usually goes unattended.

Many families are also thinking ahead to a UK school, either at the next entry point or when a posting ends. Children pick that up long before it is decided, and it helps to give them somewhere to ask their questions about it.

In a community where the cast changes every year, being able to start again socially is a genuine skill, and it can be taught. Ruby and your child work on how they join in, how they read a group, and what they do when a friendship ends because someone moved rather than because anything went wrong.

For teenagers, Ruby and your child spend more time on honesty in friendships and on the difference between being liked and being known.

See the social and friendships coaching programme.

School days here are often long and followed by sport or clubs, and children who find planning hard tend to run on adrenaline until something gives. Ruby and your child build a routine your child can actually keep, with a clear way to start work and a clear way to stop.

For children with ADHD or executive functioning differences, the systems are designed around how they think rather than around what a planner expects.

This is the focus of the organisation and independence programme.

Ruby and your child work on catching a feeling early and doing something useful with it, and on rebuilding confidence in a child who has decided they are the one who is behind.

Transitions are a large part of the work here: a new school, a new country, or a return to the UK after years away.

Ruby works with autistic children, children with ADHD, and children whose profiles include demand avoidance, slow processing, or working memory and executive functioning differences. Sessions are adapted to how a child communicates and how much they can manage on a given day.

The approach is neurodiversity-affirming and never about masking. Coaching is education-led support and is not assessment or clinical treatment.

There is more on SEN coaching, and on specialist teaching in SEN tuition.

Tuition for ages 7 to 13 follows the UK National Curriculum and supports children in British curriculum and international schools here. It is used for closing gaps, steadying a difficult subject, and preparing for UK school entry from abroad.

Preparation for selective entry, including interview practice, is covered in 7+, 9+ and 11+ preparation.

Ruby works from the UK, generally 9am to 6pm UK time. The Emirates are three hours ahead during British Summer Time and four in winter, so after-school appointments here fall in the middle of her day. Late afternoon and early evening slots are straightforward.

Sessions are one to one over video call at a regular weekly or fortnightly time, with written notes to you afterwards.