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Smiths Gully's tutors include a primary school teacher with a Master's in Education, an Eltham High dux and ATAR 99.50 scholar with extensive youth leadership and choir teaching, Kumon-trained maths and English mentors, experienced university STEM students, peer tutors with subject awards, and accomplished coaches nurturing academic excellence and confidence in K–12 learners.

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

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    We come to you

    You decide where and when to meet. As little or as often as you want.

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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

    Our tutors show WHAT to study + HOW to study

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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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Modern History Tutor Hurstbridge, VIC
Ensuring that the student both understands the topic at the time of the session but also remembers it at a later date. I can explain topics in more simplistic terms with out losing key information. And I am very persistent and I don't give up…

Local Reviews

Very happy with the tutor! Chris has improved and has more confident! In his last 2 test he got B & A.
Marianthi

Inside Smiths GullyTutoring Sessions

Content Covered

Year 3 student Baylee worked on identifying and creating equivalent fractions using shaded diagrams, as well as practicing addition and subtraction of fractions with the same denominator.

In Year 10, Theo focused on analysing persuasive techniques within argument analysis tasks and developed body paragraphs for English essays, particularly drawing evidence from set texts.

Meanwhile, Cameron in Year 11 reviewed feedback on creative writing pieces related to Station Eleven and practised planning and expanding draft responses to improve structure and thematic insight.

Recent Challenges

In Year 12 English, one student's reluctance to write down ideas led to rigid, repetitive essays—"he worried too much about how it should be phrased," as a tutor noted.

This meant he missed chances to analyse texts deeply and hesitated when planning creative pieces, often defaulting to retelling scenes instead of exploring new perspectives.

Meanwhile, a Year 4 student frequently forgot steps in multi-digit subtraction and struggled with times tables; her tendency to rely on finger-counting slowed progress in class activities and caused frustration during mental maths games.

Both situations show how process habits directly shaped their learning moments.

Recent Achievements

One Smiths Gully tutor noticed Cameron, a Year 11 student, moving from passively reading texts to actively annotating and identifying persuasive techniques on his own—something he'd hesitated with before.

In another session, Theo was able to structure an English essay with clear sub-ideas and evidence after previously struggling to move beyond simple rephrasing; he even grouped minor character examples together without prompting.

Meanwhile, Baylee in primary school began asking for more challenging decimal addition problems and made only one error when writing numbers as words—a big change from needing lots of reminders last term.

What they say about our tutoring

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Thanks Erica, Jemma & Hunter get along very well I'm pleased to report. I've observed that Jemma has that natural communication talent that all gr8 teachers have i.e. they engage you with their knowledge.

No news is good news - we are very happy with Eddie! Thankyou for following up but all is great from our perspective. Thanks again

Yes Jamie seems happy with Daniel's tuition and did well in his maths test following Daniels first tuition session.

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 Yarra Glen Reading Room—or at your child's school (with permission), like St Andrews Primary School.