Mr. Smyth Maths

📆 Date: Friday 17th October
👨‍🏫 Tutor: Mr Malkin


Round off the week with our Friday GCSE Maths (Foundation) live class — ideal for building confidence, filling gaps, and finishing the week strong 💪


🔹 4:15 pm – Foundation
Topic: Substitution


Our live lessons are interactive and supportive — helping students understand the “why,” not just the “how.” Every session is recorded so they can rewatch anytime.


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Wht's your child's biggest struggle in revision?

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If you can't do it perfectly, do it consistently.



Since we can't do things perfectly anyway. Let's just be consistent.

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I want to talk about ADHD and Autism today.
Recently, I was diagnosed with ADHD and ASD. I wanted to share some of my experiences because I think it might help you better understand your child if they’re ADHD, autistic, or both. Maybe even help you see things through their eyes a little clearer. Or maybe you know someone with an ADHD or autistic child, or likely they are in your child's class

ADHD isn't just hyperactivity.
A lot of people think ADHD just means a kid bouncing off the walls, but that’s a narrow view. ADHD is split into different types—mainly inattentive and hyperactive/impulsive. My diagnosis was “severe inattentive” and “moderate hyperactive.” That means I’m not outwardly “hyper,” but my brain is constantly pinging around internally, which makes focus, memory, and everyday tasks incredibly difficult.

We don’t have a motivation problem—we have a wiring difference.
ADHD brains run on an interest-based nervous system. If something doesn’t spark genuine interest, it can feel physically impossible to do. Not hard—impossible. But if it is interesting? I can lock in for 17 hours straight, without eating, drinking, or going to the toilet. It’s wild. That’s why I can spend days obsessively working on something I love, but leave a parcel return sitting on the kitchen counter for weeks.

Our brains burn through energy faster.
Think of your day like a video game energy bar. Neurotypical people might start the day with 20 points: work costs 5, dinner 2, cleaning 2, etc. I start with 20 too—but work costs me 10, cleaning is 5, and going to the gym is another 5. That’s my whole day gone. This is why my living space often looks chaotic—it’s not laziness. I’m out of energy.

Time doesn’t work the same way in my head.
An appointment at 2pm can ruin my whole day. I go into “waiting mode” and can’t do anything beforehand. Then after the appointment, I’m mentally done. If something’s booked on a Thursday, it can feel like my whole week is written off. It’s like my brain is on a train track heading full-speed toward that one event and can’t switch tracks.

I don’t experience time the same either.
I visualise time—months are an egg-shaped loop. Weekdays are a backward horseshoe: Mon–Fri going right to left, Sat–Sun going back the other way. Days are split into 4 blocks of 3 hours, which makes something like tutoring at 4pm painful—it cuts into my internal blocks. Weirdly, moving that to 4:30pm fixed it. I can’t explain that.

I mask my symptoms really well.
I’ve spent years learning how to act “normal,” and I do a pretty good job—about 98%. But people can sense that 2%, and they just think I’m a bit weird or off. I fit in enough to be part of things, but not enough to fully blend. It’s a very lonely middle ground to live in.

My diagnosis gave me answers.
I used to feel like an idiot for struggling with things that seemed easy to others. Like someone asking me to pick something up while I’m on my way to the shop—it completely derails my plan and I suddenly can’t go. Now I understand why that happens. It’s not stupidity, it’s just how my brain works.

Most people don’t take it seriously.
I’ve been written off as lazy or “making excuses” more times than I can count. I don’t need special treatment, but I do have limitations. I struggle with things like going to restaurants unless I can hide in a group, face the right way, and the table isn’t too tall or low. I can’t make weekend plans too early. I zone out when people talk for too long. I try so hard to pay attention, but it takes everything I’ve got.

When I drop the mask, people don’t get it.
If I let myself stim or act naturally—fidgeting, making mouth sounds, laughing too loudly—people think I’m being annoying or “putting it on.” So I go back to masking. But it’s exhausting.

Language is hard.
People speak with different rhythms, tones, vocab, and speeds. It takes me a long time to understand how someone communicates—like 20 meetings sometimes. If someone I do understand starts using new words, it’s all I can focus on. It’s overwhelming.

New environments are overwhelming.
New places mean new smells, textures, rules, sounds, people, food, expectations. My brain takes in everything, and it takes forever to filter it. I don’t know what’s important and what isn’t, so I try to process it all—and it’s exhausting.

Music triggers everything.
Might be synaesthesia, but every song I hear takes me back to the place I heard it most. I remember the smell, the emotion, the lighting, everything. Some songs are tied to stress or anxiety, and hearing them can be intense. And songs get stuck in my head on repeat—like literal weeks of one line playing again and again.

I’m always having to justify myself.
When I say I can’t do something, I get: “Why not?” Then I have to explain. Then I get “Just do it, it’s easy” or unsolicited advice. Neurotypicals can’t always give useful advice to neurodivergents—it’s not unkindness, it’s just that the wiring is different.

Disorganisation isn’t deliberate.
I’ll bring my gym bag in when I shouldn’t. Then I’ll go to put it away, see my jacket, put that away, notice dishes, start washing, see plants, water them, go outside, cut grass, get sidetracked—an hour later, nothing’s finished. I’m not doing it on purpose. I desperately want to stay focused, but my brain takes every detour it sees.

Sleep is all over the place.
I’m a zombie until about 1pm. Then around 11pm, my brain kicks in full blast until 3am. That’s when the cravings hit, that’s when the distractions are loudest, and it’s where most of my self-destructive habits creep in. My worst addiction is food, and it’s taking a toll.

Listening is like trying to get the perfect shower temperature.
You know that one shower where it’s either too hot or too cold, and the sweet spot is half a degree in between? That’s what attention is like for me. I want to listen—I really do—but it’s incredibly hard to hit that perfect balance, and it changes depending on the day, the time, the person, and even the topic.

Sometimes, while you’re speaking, I’m hyper-aware of needing to show I’m listening, thinking: “How do I look interested? What should I say next to prove I understand?” Other times, you’ll say a single word that I like, and my brain goes off on a tangent thinking about that word, its meaning, memories tied to it—before I know it, I’ve missed everything else you said.

Or I concentrate so hard—literally repeating to myself listen, listen, listen—that it becomes all I’m hearing, not you. And when I zone out, and I apologise and admit it, I get called rude, or I can see the frustration. But I’m not doing it to be disrespectful. I’m trying harder than you know.

So what does all this mean for your child?
Your ADHD/autistic child isn’t being lazy, rude, forgetful or difficult on purpose. Their world is an overwhelming firehose of information. Their brain is processing everything—all the time—and it’s exhausting.

What can you do?
Offer gentle reminders
Thank them when they follow through
Give them choices around when to do something
Be a body double—wash dishes with them, let them pick a role
Don’t demand explanations for things that don’t make sense to you—just trust that they make sense to them
They don’t need fixing. They just need understanding. And I'm not kidding when I say that everything above, is only scratching the surface

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Most of you know us for our GCSE Maths LIVE classes — that’s our main focus.

But what some people don’t realise is that every student who joins our Maths program also gets access to a weekly live English GCSE class completely free.

That’s right — English is a bonus, not something you’re paying extra for.

We added it because so many of our Maths students were struggling with both subjects, and this way we can support them without adding more cost for parents.

So if your child could use a boost in English — or if you’ve been holding off joining because you wanted both subjects —
just know that English is included free for all our Maths members.

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✏️ Plus a free English class every week.

Comment ENGLISH below if your child could use it —
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Mr. Smyth Maths

📆 Date: Wednesday 15th October
👨‍🏫 Tutor: Mr Malkin



Join us this Wednesday for our live GCSE Maths (Higher) lesson — the perfect mid-week boost to build understanding and confidence before exams 💪



🔹 4:15 pm – Higher
Topic: Solving Quadratics



Our live sessions are fully interactive — students can ask questions, practise key exam topics, and learn clear step-by-step methods that actually make sense. Every lesson is recorded, so nothing’s ever missed.



Current members:
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🧠 Revision Tip #2 — Practise the Basics!


Most students make the same mistake when revising for Maths…
They spend all their time on the hard topics and skip the easy ones.


But here’s the truth 👇



📉 The “hard” questions only make up a small percentage of the paper.
📈 The basics — fractions, percentages, negative numbers, formula rearranging — make up over half your marks. This is because they PLATFORM the hard questions


If you nail the basics, you guarantee yourself a solid grade before you’ve even touched the tough stuff.
✅ Actionable tip:
Spend 20 minutes tonight doing a “Basics Blast”:



Pick 5 quick topics you think you already know — and test yourself.

You’ll be shocked how much you can tighten up in one session.


🎯 Want to get structure and feedback to make sure your basics are rock solid?
👉 Book a free GCSE Maths lesson here:
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