The Education Director
Zaehid Hakim
A home educator first. Twenty years in professions where you are held to an evidenced standard. That is what sits behind every plan.
At home
I home educate
I teach my own children at home. One of them is nine, working at Year 6 in maths and science and at Year 7 to 8 in English comprehension. The other is younger and on daily work. I wrote their twelve-month syllabus and the fifteen-week subject plans myself, and I run the week myself.
So I know the Friday feeling of looking back at the week and wondering whether it was enough. I know the isolation of having nobody to check with. And I know that one child being two years ahead in one subject and at age level in another is not unusual. It is what children look like when nobody is forcing them into a year group.
That is why every plan here is individual. Not because it sounds good, but because I have watched what happens when the plan fits the child and what happens when it doesn’t.
In education
Experience in education
Alongside my own children I have tutored on an ad hoc basis for many years, mostly secondary sciences and maths up to and beyond GCSE. I built the same discipline into it that I use at home: a baseline, a primer before each session, consolidation after it, and a written review of what landed.
That weekly rhythm, plan, deliver, log, review, is the rhythm the programme runs on. It is not new. It is just rarely applied to home education, where the parent is usually left to guess.
Professionally
Held to a standard
I have spent twenty years in two regulated professions. Both require you to assess carefully, record what you found, act on the evidence, and be able to show your reasoning to someone checking your work. That habit does not switch off. It is exactly the discipline that overseeing a child’s education needs.
- Optometrist, registered with the General Optical Council
- Pharmacist, registered with the General Pharmaceutical Council
- Independent Prescriber
- Superintendent Pharmacist
- Reading for an MSc in Computer Science
Both registrations are public. You can check them here: General Optical Council and General Pharmaceutical Council.
Answered plainly
I do not hold Qualified Teacher Status
You will want to know, so here it is. QTS is the qualification for teaching a class in a school. What I do is different. I assess where a child is, design the programme, review the evidence and adjust the direction. The teaching, day to day, is yours.
What that work needs is the habit of setting a standard and checking against it, honestly, every week. I have done that professionally for twenty years and at my own kitchen table for the last several.
If you would rather work with someone who holds QTS, I understand, and I would rather you knew now than found out later.
Safeguarding
Checked, and checkable
Enhanced DBS certificate with children’s barred list check, registered on the DBS Update Service.
The certificate is available to view on request, and the Update Service lets you confirm it is current. Communication with your child, where it happens at all, is parent-visible by default. Read the safeguarding statement.
One step, no obligation
Arrange your child's review
Tell me about your child and what your week looks like. I will reply personally, with an honest view of where you stand.
Answered personally within one working day. No sales call.