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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.

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Amy

English Tutor Redland Bay, QLD
Of course, an english tutor is there for the student academically. However, the most important thing a tutor can provide is confidence in the students. Students who may not be achieving high marks might believe it reflects their self-worth. My job is to show them that it doesn't. As I'm currently a swim teacher, I have built the skills of…
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Ansu

English Tutor Redland Bay, QLD
The most important is to break the ice and make the student as comfortable as possible. It is important to communicate to the student that just because they do not understnd sometihing now, does not mean that they cannot improve and eventually understand. Another important factor is to consider the personality and learning preferance of the…
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Rebecca

English Tutor Redland Bay, QLD
Making sure that the student is understanding what the tutor is explaining and keeping the student motivated, as there isn't much use of a student being tutored if they cannot understand or if they are not motivated. I am able to explain things in a way that are easy to understand, I help the student stay out of frustration and help them approach…
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Steffanie

English Tutor Redland Bay, QLD
Ultimately help them understand the areas of study which are more difficult for them and in turn supplying them with the confidence to complete the subject at school knowing that they did the best they possibly could I am very patient and can establish many different ways to explain difficult terms or problems in order to make it understandable…
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Amanda

English Tutor Victoria Point, QLD
To fill in the missing piece/s to the puzzle so that students can understand what is being taught and be able to add to that and continue to learn and achieve. To provide the basic building blocks or foundation so that students can continue to build on their learning on their own. Ultimately to give them the confidence that they have the ability…

Local Reviews

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

Inside Macleay IslandTutoring Sessions

Content Covered

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.

Recent Challenges

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.

Recent Achievements

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.

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 Russell Island Library—or at your child's school (with permission), like MacLeay Island State School.