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Otford's tutors include a primary and secondary school teaching specialist with over 5 years' classroom experience, an HSC dux and university medallist in maths, seasoned peer mentors, a swim instructor and youth camp leader, national-level athletes balancing academics with sport, and accomplished volunteer educators supporting students from early years through to high school.

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    Qualified Tutors

    Carefully screened, fewer than 10% are good enough to work with us.

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    Working with Children Check

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    Real Results

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    Any Grade

    High school or primary, you'll get a tutor that fits your needs.

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    1000's of Happy Students

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    Lesson Reports

    You'll get feedback on each lesson, so you know how your child gets on.

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Maree

English Tutor Helensburgh, NSW
Make them feel at ease and completely supported, be gentle and caring and show incredibly strong belief in them. I know that children feel more courageous to take on new challenges if they feel someone has a lot of confidence in them. You have to really care about them and their results, so they know the help they are getting is genuine. I have…
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English Tutor Helensburgh, NSW
Allowing them to find their own way of learning and figuring out what they did wrong without making them feel like they can not learn and know nothing. Creativity, relating to the students. Coming up with engaging lessons and fun ways to learn new things. Mathematics and Science. Able to be flexible in the learning…
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Lily

English Tutor Coledale, NSW
The most important thing an english tutor can do for a student is ensure the tutor works towards the students strengths and attempts to minimise their weaknesses. Tutors should also be considerate to their student by considering their needs and how they like to learn so that their student's highest potential is achieved. I believe I am patient,…

Local Reviews

After only 2 sessions with Claudia, my testimony may be a bit premature, however my 10 year old son is really enjoying his weekly maths sessions. Claudia has the ability to communicate, explain problems in different ways and gauge whether my son has really understood how they achieved an answer.
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Inside OtfordTutoring Sessions

Content Covered

Year 8 student Ava worked on solving linear equations and applying Pythagoras' theorem to right-angled triangles, using past exam questions for practice.

For Year 10, James focused on sketching quadratic graphs and completed worded problems involving the quadratic formula.

Meanwhile, Year 5 student Lily practised converting between fractions, decimals and percentages as well as tackling BIDMAS (order of operations) with guided worksheets.

Recent Challenges

A Year 8 student often assumed pronumerals would stay in the same order as earlier algebra questions, leading to errors—she missed switching x and y when the problem changed.

In Year 10, one student found exam pressure overwhelming, losing track of steps during timed tasks.

For a senior preparing for HSC, past session notes showed forgotten older content after new material was introduced; confusion resurfaced when all topics appeared together on practice exams.

Meanwhile, a Year 5 student hesitated to attempt worded problems independently until prompted, which slowed progress and meant fewer opportunities for feedback within sessions.

Recent Achievements

One Otford tutor recently noticed a big shift with a Year 10 student who used to hesitate when confused; now, she pinpoints exactly where she's stuck and confidently asks for clarification—something she avoided before.

A Year 11 student showed real initiative by requesting extra practice questions after lessons to reinforce her grasp of unfamiliar algebra topics, moving beyond passive learning.

In the younger years, one primary student who had struggled with subtraction surprised his tutor this week by working through multi-step problems independently and then asking for harder ones.

What they say about our tutoring

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Things are going really well with Adam. Josephine is very comfortable with him and enjoys their lessons. He has been very helpful, friendly and supportive. We're really pleased its working out so well.

We are extremely happy with Lakshya. He was just what Quinn needed and the 2 of them get along so well. We feel very lucky that we ended up with Lakshya.

Isabella is very happy with Phoebe and she has already shown improvement in her school work. Her teacher actually called me to tell me that she had improved which was great to hear.

Local Spots for Tutoring

If you'd prefer not to have lessons at home, tutoring can also take place at a local library—such as Helensburgh Branch Library—or at your child's school (with permission), like Otford Public School.