Hi Everyone,

My name is Mandy Thomas and I very much hope to become your future Female Driving Instructor. I have been a fully qualified Approved Driving Instructor for 18 years now and I am also extremely proud to be the holder of Grade A status which signifies an extremely high standard of teaching and was introduced in 2014. I achieved that grade in the September of 2014 and I was delighted to retain that status in back to back style in August 2019. We are assessed by senior DVSA examiners who sit in on a lesson and carry out a deep assessment of all parts of the lesson process. This is generally on a 4 year cycle depending on the grade held by the instructor.

I am a member of a wonderful local instructors group called SADIA, Sutton Area Driving Instructors Association which was set up to form a community relationship amongst local instructors, whilst fully enforcing the very highest standards of teaching. We hold regular group meetings often with the attendance of senior DVSA personnel with whom we have an excellent rapport and also various Road Safety and Industry Professionals.

Continuing Professional Development is very important to me so I work hard to stay across all Industry related changes and news as well as attending courses often run by The Driving Instructors Association (DIA), the most recent of which was dedicated to teaching drivers with diverse needs.

I adopt a mix of traditional teaching with new format coaching and this is to ensure that all my pupils receive bespoke, tailored teaching and I work tirelessly to address any issues or fears about learning that you may have or have experienced in the past. Understanding, addressing and eliminating risk from your driving is a very core part of modern teaching. I have limitless patience and everything is calmly delivered, but with a good dose of humour where appropriate as I believe that our learning partnership works best when it is interspersed with shared laughter along the way. As you get to know me you will find that I have my own very quirky library of unique ways of helping you deal with the more tricky elements of driving. Please do take a few moments to look at the testimonials from some of my wonderful ‘passed’ pupils or from their families. It will hopefully clearly show you that I literally go The Extra Mile every time and I am 100% committed to every student throughout their learning journey and beyond.

I cover all aspects of your development of Safe Skills for Life and my tough mock test programme with role play ensures that you can fully cope for the future and not just passing The Driving Test.

My current training vehicle is a silver coloured Nissan Note Acenta 1.5dci (diesel), 5 door manual gearbox with air conditioning and eco mode driving setting. The vehicle is fully insured for all elements of teaching and has dual controls fitted as necessary. For our additional safety, a front and rear facing dash cam has been professionally installed. It is a nice, spacious vehicle that is kept in immaculate condition inside and outside by me personally, suits most heights and leg lengths and has good visibility too.

Areas covered: Banstead, Belmont, Carshalton, Cheam, Coulsdon, Hackbridge, Morden, Sutton, Wallington and Woodcote.

Sadly in 2017 the DVSA Test Centre in Sutton closed. We briefly relocated to Carshalton, but after sudden closure due to operational issues, my DVSA Test Centre of choice is now MORDEN (Tudor Drive). Many of our examiners from Sutton moved across to Morden and I am proud that I have a very friendly and very professional rapport with the team there. They are a lovely team and only want the very best for the pupils who they assess.

I work to and am supported by professionally drawn up and legally backed Terms and Conditions from the Driving Instructors Association, of whom I am a member. These are firmly enforced by me at all times to ensure good conduct by all parties concerned. These will be made available to you in advance of your learning beginning and will require full sign off and compliance throughout. Thank you

I really hope that the above has whetted your appetite for wanting to learn to drive based on many reasons that may have brought you to this point. Please give me a call, text or email so that we can discuss your needs in much greater detail and I cannot wait to meet you very soon and start on your journey to success!