Penfield's tutors include a Master of Teaching candidate and former school dux in maths and sciences, Kumon-trained mentors with peer tutoring experience, an academic award-winning pharmacy student, a research scholar with university teaching expertise, experienced Kumon and private tutors, creative writers, and postgraduate students in mathematics, engineering, data science and education.
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Katherine was great with the girls. Very organised, assertive and patient. She has surpassed my expectations, so I am really happy with her and so are the girls.Violeta
Year 4 student Ariana practiced identifying symmetry in shapes and began a Year 4 content quiz to reinforce her understanding.
For Year 9, Amelia worked on algebra skills, including factorisation with pairs and the difference of two squares, using practice problems to build confidence.
Meanwhile, Year 10 student Jackson focused on linear equations for a maths assignment, tackling concepts like parallel and perpendicular lines as well as slopes—covering negatives, zero slope, and undefined cases.
A Year 12 student often left major research tasks until the last minute, leading to rushed work and "little time to polish," as noted after a Research Project session.
The same student sometimes relied heavily on lesson time for assignment completion rather than preparing notes or articles in advance; one week, not having articles ready cost valuable analysis time.
In Year 10 mathematics, skipping steps when solving equations was observed: "student needs to double check the carrying of values between steps, also sometimes skips the steps in an equation when written."
During a Year 8 biology session, key materials—including test papers—were forgotten at home, preventing review and making targeted feedback impossible.
One Penfield tutor noticed a big shift with Flynn, a high school student who used to hesitate with algebra but recently started thinking out loud and correcting his own process when he got stuck.
Another secondary student, Sam, has begun showing more initiative in English—he re-engaged with his Research Project by coming up with thoughtful interview questions on his own and recently earned an A for his newspaper PowerPoint after previously struggling to organise ideas.
Meanwhile, a younger learner, Vikrant, who at first had trouble remembering number order past ten, now fills in missing numbers up to twenty with only minor errors and traces words while saying them aloud.
