Are Your Students Planning For Success?
We help develop key organisational skills. Our Agile Revision approach makes preparing for exams straightforward.
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How We Can Help
Assemblies
Presentations provide practical advice on managing time. Students leave the sessions with a clear idea how to plan in such a way that it doesn't take over their lives.
Planning tools
At the heart of our approach is a system of creating a personalised 'backlog' of work to be done, and providing a framework to do it with. It's a fantastic way of getting started.
Small Groups
Smaller group sessions concentrate on those students who would benefit from more depth. Sessions can be tailored to particular needs.
Parent sessions
The Study Buddy was created by a parent to support his son. These sessions provide advice on how parents can practically be involved without feeling like they are nagging or studying alongside their child.


About Us
How students manage their time makes a difference to their outcomes. The Study Buddy approach is based on corporate project management techniques, adapted specifically for exam-facing teens. It was devised by Nathan McGurl as he tried to support his son’s GCSE revision efforts
Working with schools and colleges across the country, Nathan’s sessions are engaging and lively. They are a bit different and yet lend an all-important external voice to underline the messages that will already be coming out of the classroom.
It is an approach that addresses the key hurdles all teens face when it comes to preparing for their exams. In a combination of project management thinking, teen psychology and evidence-based learning ideas, The Study Buddy tackles the What, When and How of revision.
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School Testimonials



STRESS-FREE REVISION
from start to finish
The Study Buddy approach is to understand exactly what needs to be studied, and then working out when it will be covered.
It’s more than aiming for higher grades, it’s about building the skills needed to plan and manage a workload.
Building those core skills for life beyond the classroom.
- 25+ Years of experience managing complex commercial projects
- Approachable and relaxed style
- An outside voice, supporting what you already say
- Complements and reinforces the importance of what happens in the classroom.
