Stafford House London

I am so satisfied with Stafford House.I like all of the teachers, but I think the best teacher is definitely Helen.She is very kind and smart. She helps everyone with kindness.Also she's beautiful and lovely person too.If you take Helen's class, you will never bedisappointed. I am 100% happy with her class.

Stafford house is a great school.There are a lot of good teacher. And especially Helen is the most gentle teacher in this school. I really like her.

In the process of completing my CELTA course at Stafford House. The staff especially John and Jenny have been such wonderful tutors, and have taken such care and time to help us grow as individuals and especially as EFL teachers. It fantastic to see how they cultivate the learning of the students, something which we all on this course hope to do one day too

Stafford Houses is a great experience to learn English. All staffs and teachers are very nice. My teacher (Helen) is very great. She explains easy to understand.

I studied a part-time Celta course from September to November 2023, and I have to say I quite miss it! I mostly studied this course to become a qualified EFL teacher, but I also wanted to enhance my personal development!I had never taught a thing to anyone in my life and I was very nervous for it, but I'm so glad I did it! If you're an anxious person, this course is really going to push you out of your comfort zone (which is a good thing- how else will you grow?), I definitely recommend it. The workload was a lot, even for a part-time course, so make sure you leave PLENTY of time to do your work (this is really important). I'd personally recommend the part-time as I felt I was able to actually digest information and process it slower, I know people who do the full-time celta sort of feel a bit bamboozled as it goes so quickly and is very intense.The students we taught were generally very lovely if you build a rapport with them first, and then suddenly teaching becomes a little easier and less daunting. I was also very lucky to receive a bunch of awesome celta classmates and we all helped each other when needed!I had a lot of really good support from the teachers; Louise and John. Louise has a lot of knowledge on teaching, she's very experienced and was able to ask me questions that helped me to think about my procedures and contexts of the lesson, which I believe is very important. She was awesome and very constructive with her criticism! John has an incredible tv-presenter like teaching personality and had all of us engaged in the input sessions! He has a natural way of making students feel comfortable, I never felt confused or unsupported by him. John was very knowledgable and encouraging during feedback so as not to knock your confidence down. He was very kind and lovely to all students, which goes a long way if you're riddled with self-doubt! I really appreciated both of them and the support they gave.There were some things I felt could be better, as I said I was very nervous to teach and I had never stood in front of a class before and I felt this process could have been a little easier. Perhaps for our first teaching lesson we could have done a smaller section from the book or a game for 15 minutes each? Just to get used to the idea of leading a class. Because they really do throw you into it. Most people who have taught before would be fine but I definitely was panicking like crazy before my first lesson.I also felt towards the end my confidence was diminishing; there was too much feedback and it felt like I kept doing everything wrong even up until my last lesson. That wasn't a very good feeling. Teaching English I've heard isn't as complicated as I was made to feel and I mostly wanted to help students learn in a fun and engaging way, but I wasn't able to do that because I was so nervous of mucking it all up that I kept to the book and didn't let things get fun in my lessons :( I still feel a little self doubt in my abilities as a teacher because of all the negative feedback, but i'm aware my skills will develop with real-life experience.Sometimes I felt there was no clarity on where resources were and how to use them, although no one can hold your hand through life of course, it still felt there was a lack for me there.The building itself is a little older, toilets are going to be improved (hopefully). I felt that the classrooms with no desks were a little odd, and theres not really anywhere to leave your teaching materials whilst teaching! But this point might be a personal preference. Also the lower ground floor room made my eczema go crazy so just keep that in mind too.HOWEVER, in general this was a brilliant idea for me, a bit pricey for what I received, but I've passed my Celta and I'm really glad I pushed myself to do something like this. If you are like me, scrolling and reading reviews wondering to yourself if you could handle anything like this, you most definitely can, just keep your head on and your wits about you and I promise you, you'll be fine. Push yourself, it's worth it :)

Stafford house is a great school, especially Miss Helen, it is a fabulous teacher, her voice is adorable and I loved to learning and improve my english with her. I will recommend then for my friends❤️

I am very grateful for all the classes and lessons I had with Nieves, in addition to being an excellent professional, I had support during all classes, with doubts and questions. She is very special to me throughout the 6 months I was here. I love her:)