Our Tutors
Harriet Tuckett BA (Hons) MCIL CL
Chartered Linguist
Company Director & Spanish Tutor
Harriet lived in Spain on the Costa Blanca for sixteen years where she grew up speaking the language with fluency. During this time Harriet taught at an International Language School in Spain and decided to return to the UK, where she was educated at Rugby School and then went on to obtain her degree in Spanish at the University of Chester.
In 2010 she set up The Spanish Academy, offering Spanish tuition to adults & children of all ages, and also qualified as a Chartered Linguist in 2010. She has taught in a variety of secondary schools across Norfolk & Cambridgeshire and specialises in Spanish GCSE & A level tuition. After twelve successful years, she is now tutoring on an online platform as well as face to face and teaching students from some of the UK’s top public schools such as Eton, Harrow & Radley.
Jennifer Wightwick
French, German & English Tutor
Jenny is a graduate of Bristol University, where she read French & German at degree level. This included a year abroad where she was an English Language Assistant in a high school in South-West Germany. She also obtained a Masters in Translation & Interpreting. Later, Jenny trained as a secondary school teacher at the University of East Anglia, Norwich and carried out an online course for teaching English as a Foreign Language.
Her first year as a qualified teacher was spent in Essex & Cambridgeshire in two secondary schools. She began private tutoring for The Spanish Academy in February 2016 and has since taught a wide variety of people and age groups, as well as GCSE & A Level tutoring for students from local and national schools throughout the UK.
Emma Cobb BA (Hons)
Italian & Spanish Tutor
Emma is a graduate of the University of Manchester in Italian and Spanish. In 2019 she took a Teaching English as a Foreign Language course (TEFL) and used this teaching knowledge to start tutoring in Italian and Spanish. She registered as a language tutor in January 2020 and has been tutoring online both privately and in small groups since then.