Year 5 student Mia worked on recognising equivalent fractions and placing them accurately on a number line, using visual aids for clarity.

Year 8 student Zane focused on applying the order of operations in multi-step maths problems and improved his English comprehension by practising full-sentence responses to reading passages.

Meanwhile, Year 10 student Olivia revised solving linear equations and wrote introductions for English essays, paying particular attention to proofreading and structure.

Homework completion was a consistent challenge across several year levels.

In Year 10 English, "not all spelling words were learned due to a busy week," which left gaps in subsequent writing tasks.

A Year 7 maths student repeatedly forgot to attempt homework, making it harder to build on previously introduced strategies and leading to confusion between operations.

For a senior physics student, missing practice with converting units—"needs to remember to convert to Joules or eV"—meant calculation errors persisted into classwork.

The feeling of being behind surfaced most at the start of new topics, especially when earlier feedback hadn't been taken up or reviewed.

One Junortoun tutor noticed a Year 11 student who, after struggling with algebraic manipulation and quadratics, was recently able to confidently solve problems and explain the reasoning behind each step.

In another session, a Year 9 student who used to hesitate during presentations pushed through nerves to deliver her speech clearly and even responded thoughtfully to follow-up questions.

Meanwhile, a Year 5 learner who once avoided homework now arrives proudly with an organised folder and has started completing all assigned tasks without reminders—last week she finished every problem in her maths set before the lesson began.