Macleay Island's tutors feature a former school Dux and prefect with academic honours, a peer mentor and university prizewinner in maths and science, qualified education students passionate about English and music, experienced K–12 private tutors—including an Olympiad scholar—and professionals with backgrounds in classroom teaching, creative writing, linguistics, leadership, and youth coaching.
It was lovely meeting Jessie yesterday and she and Mikayla clicked immediately. It was great to see Mikayla engaging so well when strategies were explained and we are sure they will work very well together.Linda
Year 4 student Ella worked on BIDMAS order of operations and explored rational versus irrational numbers using a revision worksheet.
Year 10 student Taylor focused on coordinate geometry—calculating distances with the distance formula, determining gradients, and sketching linear equations.
Meanwhile, Year 12 student Jakob practiced annuities and loan repayments with targeted General Maths exam questions and reviewed least squares regression lines for data analysis.
In Year 11 General Maths, Jakob made some small mistakes in his working during annuities and loan repayment tasks; over several sessions, these errors persisted because written steps were skipped or not double-checked.
A Year 8 student tackling perimeter and area questions often confused instructions—such as reading 'perimeter' for 'area'—leading to repeated recalculation and loss of confidence mid-task.
Meanwhile, a senior Physics student struggled with matching answers on logic gates and pulley system problems when practice was limited to familiar question types rather than the challenging exam-style scenarios likely to appear on assessments.
One Macleay Island tutor noticed Nisha, a high school student, starting to choose when to use her graphics calculator and moving between questions and examples with more independence than before—she now decides which tools to use without waiting for prompts.
Jakob, also in high school, shifted from needing guidance on annuities and interest calculations to independently solving problems and even drawing graphs from matrices by lesson's end.
In Year 2, Claira has become noticeably faster at completing double- and single-digit addition, now working through long addition sums mostly on her own after previously relying on finger counting.
