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Upper Duroby's tutors include a Master-qualified secondary science and maths teacher with classroom experience from Queensland to Germany, an early childhood specialist and international school educator, award-winning academic high achievers in maths and science, seasoned English and arts instructors, peer mentors, and creative coaches dedicated to supporting K–12 students at every level.

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    Any Grade

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    1000's of Happy Students

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    Lesson Reports

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Martin

Science Tutor Banora Point, NSW
Not just tutor them, but be a friend. By opening up and developing a closer bond to students, the students feel more comfortable and it doesn't become a tutoring session, but just a study session. I went through the course(s) myself quite recently, so I understand what's expected on the students, and what they need to do to excel and not only get…

Local Reviews

The people that we have contacted, all seem to be working for the benefit of our sons education and helping him move forward. The tutor we have connected with our son , on his level on the first night and we are seeing the benefits already.
Craig Collings-Wells

Inside Upper DurobyTutoring Sessions

Content Covered

Year 8 student Jeremy worked through Pythagoras' theorem problems and revised measurement topics such as perimeter, area, and volume to prepare for upcoming exams.

Year 7 student Will focused on multiplying and dividing negative numbers using the number line, as well as plotting points and reflecting shapes on the Cartesian plane for his assessment.

For Year 6, Bella completed maths questions involving elapsed time and money calculations, while also practising English comprehension with written responses.

Recent Challenges

A Year 12 student arrived to a session only partly prepared, focusing on basics but not bringing necessary notes for deeper exam-style questions—this left her struggling to tackle the most challenging problems.

In Year 9 algebra, one student's written work was messy and skipped key steps; as the tutor put it, "he skipped showing steps in algebra, which hid sign errors."

For a Year 7 English task, another avoided editing her PowerPoint formatting and spelling before submission, despite reminders.

Meanwhile, a primary student couldn't complete an area exercise because she'd forgotten to bring paper—losing valuable practice time that lesson.

Recent Achievements

In high school maths, Jeremy has gone from needing regular help with algebra and trigonometry to working through problems independently, even tackling worded questions on Pythagoras' theorem without hesitation—something he struggled with a few months ago.

Meanwhile, Willow, also in high school, now reliably catches her own mistakes in fraction work and applies new rules after one reminder, showing more initiative than before.

On the primary side, Bella started rereading her writing to spot errors herself rather than waiting for prompts and successfully completed a tricky spelling challenge for homework.

What they say about our tutoring

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I am very happy with Rachel. She is very professional and her and Samantha have developed a good working relationship. Samantha has expressed to me that Rachel explains things really well and now she is understanding concepts she hadn't previously.

As you say it is hard to gauge the impact this early, however they seem to have a few laughs and Steve has said Jack is a lot faster in his response time. So that's progress considering Jack's willingness to begin extra learning was very poor. It didn't take more than 2 lessons for that to change. To date we are happy and are glad we didn't leave it any later, as it it the beginning of term I'm sure i will be getting feedback from Jack's teacher through the term on his improvement.I look forward to that. We want him to enjoy all lessons not dread the thought of attending classes. So far so good, Steve seems like a great match.

I just wanted to let you know how very happy we are with Tianna's tutor, Josephine. Josephine is so bubbly, easy going, very patient and great at teaching Maths and making it fun to learn.   Tianna is quite taken with Josephine, has built a great rapport with her and has made huge progress with her algebra in the short while Josephine has been tutoring her. Josephine is definitely a great asset to your company and we are so happy she is Tianna's tutor

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 Murwillumbah Library—or at your child's school (with permission), like Bilambil Public School.