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Pick the one that sounds like you. If none of them do, say so in the form and we will work out what you actually need.
£38/hr · 2 hours for the first lesson price
You have a provisional licence and have never driven. We start somewhere quiet, with the engine off, and do not move until the controls make sense.
£38/hr · 1, 1½ or 2 hours price
The standard licence. Harder to learn, and it lets you drive anything — useful if work might ever put you in a van.
£40/hr · 1, 1½ or 2 hours price
One less thing to think about, so most people reach test standard in fewer hours. Your licence is then automatic-only.
£38/hr · 1 hour to start price
No raised voices, no surprise routes, nothing sprung on you. We agree what the lesson will contain before it starts, and you can end it early.
£38/hr · 1½ hours is usually right price
You passed years ago and have not driven since, or you have moved to the UK with a licence from elsewhere. No syllabus — we fix what you want fixed.
from £560 · 15, 20 or 30 hours over 1–3 weeks price
A course rather than a weekly lesson. It suits people who already have some road sense and a firm deadline. It does not suit absolute beginners.
£38/hr · 2 hours minimum price
Legal on a provisional licence since 2018, with an approved instructor in a dual-control car. Far better done before you pass than after.
£195 · 6 hours, usually split over two days price
The DVSA post-test course: town, rural roads, dual carriageways, motorways, night and all weathers. Some insurers discount for it — check first, because many no longer do.
£55 · 1½ hours price
A real test, run to the real marking sheet, on real test-centre routes, in silence. Then twenty minutes going through the sheet with you.
£110 · 2 hours around your slot price
Use the car you learnt in for the test, with a warm-up lesson before and a lift home after. Learners who sit the test in an unfamiliar car do worse.
How a lesson actually runs
What we did last time, what stuck, what did not. You do most of the talking.
Explained stationary, demonstrated if it helps, then you do it somewhere it is safe to get wrong. One thing — not four.
New skills decay fast if they are only ever practised on their own. The back half of the lesson puts the new thing into ordinary driving.
Two or three minutes at the kerb at the end: what improved, what is still the weak point, what the next lesson is for.
One hour works if you are already driving and drilling specifics. Ninety minutes is the sweet spot for most people. Two hours is right for a first lesson, for motorway work, and for anyone whose lesson starts with a long drive out of the city. Less than an hour is not worth either of our time.
Once a week is the minimum that makes progress; twice a week is noticeably more efficient per hour, because less is forgotten between lessons. Fortnightly means paying to relearn. If money is the constraint, fewer longer lessons beat more short ones.
If you have access to an insured car and a willing supervisor over 21 who has held a full licence three years, use it. The DVSA average assumes 22 hours of it. I will tell you exactly what to practise, and what not to — practising a manoeuvre wrong for six hours is worse than not practising it.
Tell me early, in the form or on the call. Plenty of conditions are no barrier at all; some need to be declared to the DVLA, and a few need an assessment or adaptations. None of it is a reason not to ask, and I would rather plan around it from lesson one than discover it in month three.
Next step
Say what you have done so far and I will tell you which lesson type fits, including if the answer is "none of mine — try an intensive school".
No charge for the first call, and no sales pitch on it. If I am not the right instructor for you I will say so.