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Farmborough Heights' tutors include a veteran primary school teacher with over a decade's classroom experience, a maths specialist and ex-children's ministry leader, accomplished high-achievers with state-level academic and sporting awards, peer mentors, university engineering and science students, debating leaders, and coaches experienced in guiding K–12 students both academically and personally.

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Olivia

English Tutor Gwynneville, NSW
The best thing a tutor can do is create an open, collaborative learning environment that instils confidence in their students to learn any concept necessary. I am never afraid of questions as a tutor. In fact, I encourage them because I believe asking questions is the best way to track a student's progress. As a student, I often felt answers…
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Dianne

English Tutor Gwynneville, NSW
I need to assist students in believing they can learn. I would need to carefully scaffold tasks and assignments. Learning strategies should be put in place with work habits that facilitate learning. Appropriate feedback and practice are also essential to ensure the knowledge, skills and understandings endures leading to improved learning…
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Tushar
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Tushar

English Tutor Gwynneville, NSW
The most important thing a tutor can do for a student is to help them understand the subjects in the easiest possible ways and make them understand why the subject will be useful in their future career. Helping them to improve their core strengths in handwriting, communication abilities, and analytical solving. My strength in tutoring is building…
Olivia
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Olivia

English Tutor Gwynneville, NSW
To give them confidence and make them feel good about themselves. There is nothing more counter-productive than making a student feel disheartened and bad about themselves, since self-doubt yields anxiety and often poor performance in exams. Establishing a basis of trust is vital for the success of the student, so that they feel in a safe space to…
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Sushmita

English Tutor Wollongong, NSW
Enhance their holistic learning and support them with not only career pathways but other aspects of education, school etc. Being able to bring about a change in the one of the most fundamental rights, i.e.…
Ananya
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Ananya

English Tutor North Wollongong, NSW
The most important thing a tutor can do for a student is making his/her learning journey easier and fun. Not to forget, as a tutor, making sure my students have understood concepts and are able to tackle problems/questions. I believe in the idea of practical learning, i.e., linking concepts to real life events as much as possible. Alongside…
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Georgia

English Tutor Mount Pleasant, NSW
I think the most important thing a tutor can do for their student, is tailor their teaching application to the student's needs and personality. Each individual is different, and there is no single one way of teaching. I believe students incredibly appreciate a teacher or tutor that will listen to their needs, and to see where their main focal…
Frank
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Frank

English Tutor North Wollongong, NSW
I believe coming prepared to lessons is the most important thing I can do for my students, so I will always have a lesson plan and teaching aids. I will also come with tools to keep track of my student's progress to have an idea of what level my student is at and tailor my lessons towards their needs and goals. I also like to give my students a…
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Sharanya

English Tutor North Wollongong, NSW
Recognizing and addressing every students strengths and weaknesses and helping them work on it, be positive with them so they can feel confident, help the student understand concepts well rather that just memorizing them, provide them with detailed constructive feedback, etc are some of the important things a tutor could do for their student. My…
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Madelaine

English Tutor North Wollongong, NSW
Instill a sense of confidence in the child. make them feel as though they are capable of doing their work on their own, and that they have improved over their time with me. All tutors need to be patient, and I believe I am extremely. Taking time and care with kids that need that little bit of extra help is something I pride myself…
Sandra
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Sandra

English Tutor Wollongong, NSW
The most important thing a tutor can do for a student is to embrace the individuality of the student. A good tutor should have a good personal relationship with the student and understand their potential and encourage them to identify their potential. The tutor should be able to plan lessons according to the necessity of the student and also…
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Eva

English Tutor Balgownie, NSW
Making them feel comfortable to ask any questions and begin to enjoy the subject they are doing. I am very extroverted and am a very big people person. I have over 2 years of experience working the children and teenagers of all ages including those of the spectrum.…
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Ella

English Tutor Fairy Meadow, NSW
I believe that building trust and a strong line of communication between a student and their tutor is important. Tutors should strive to encourage, motivate, and support their students. Having grown up with a sibling with a learning disability, I have strongly developed patience, active listening skills, and the ability to read body language and…
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Brianna

English Tutor Fairy Meadow, NSW
Even though it sounds basic, I truly think that patience is the key. When you are respectful of the differences in how people learn it can allow the student to feel more comfortable and willing to engage. Taking time to work through things and giving positive and constructive feedback is crucial. I believe that I am able to find other methods and…
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Evie

English Tutor Wollongong, NSW
The most important thing a tutor can do for a student is to make themselves welcoming. A good and effective tutor is open to all ideas and willing to completely work with the student. The most effective tutors will offer a variety of perspectives and welcome all criticism and differing opinions. During school, I struggled with breaking down tasks,…
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Sarah

English Tutor Balgownie, NSW
As a tutor, the most important things I can do for my students is to listen, give them time and create a safe space for them where they feel comfortable enough to ask questions and leave each session having learnt something new. I can empower students by acknowledging and tailoring learning content to meet each of their specific and individualised…
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Akanksha

English Tutor Fairy Meadow, NSW
Inspire. Children are an inspiration to their teachers. As mentioned before, children are an inspiration to me since I get to learn from them as much as they get tutored from me. Understanding and patient. A lot of parents and teachers lose their patience and become unempathetic while teaching little children, however they're still learning and…
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Liam

English Tutor Fernhill, NSW
An effective tutor can make a student feel more confident and engaged with the learning process. They can make students excited to learn new concepts and to challenge themselves, rather than shying away from these challenges. Marks can be important, particularly for older students, and are a tangible outcome for students to measure their…
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Jessie

English Tutor Kanahooka, NSW
There are many important things that can be listed but my top things would be building confidence and promoting independence and understanding. A tutor should create a safe, supportive space where mistakes are okay and effort is celebrated. I am highly patient and try to break concepts down into simpler terms and action steps. I’ll never get…
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Amelia

English Tutor West Wollongong, NSW
Understanding that different students learn in different styles, and catering to all of those different needs, as well as not making a student feel silly. I am an excellent communicator, friendly and very approachable. Students relate to me because I had tutors for years! I am able to put into words and demonstrate how to do things in a way…
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Emily

English Tutor West Wollongong, NSW
A tutor must help increase a students understanding of the material, and be flexible to different learning styles. A tutor should be encouraging and compassionate while educating the student. Mutual respect is also important. I spend hours preparing for each lessons, reviewing relevant content and planning the structure of the lesson. Within the…
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Lavanya

English Tutor West Wollongong, NSW
Being patient and understand their strengths and weakness. Even though you are tutor to them, be a friend too, so that we would be able to let them focus on the education. I am patient and able to give them a lot of practices to expand their…
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Jayna

English Tutor West Wollongong, NSW
I believe that tutors should help students reach their own personal learning goals. Each student should leave their sessions feeling happy and that they have accomplished/learnt something they didn’t know before. It is important that every student feels they understand the content and their educational needs are met with enthusiasm and interest.…

Local Reviews

Rishika is a very good tutor. She has a well understanding of maths and makes it easy for my daughter in helping her clear her doubts.
Zainab

Inside Farmborough HeightsTutoring Sessions

Content Covered

Year 4 student Charlie practised long addition with carrying and worked on simple subtraction using written examples.

In Year 9, Daniel focused on linear equations with negative numbers and fractions, as well as plotting points and values on the Cartesian plane, before moving onto perimeter calculations and square unit conversions.

For Year 11, Nicholas reviewed non-right angled trigonometry—particularly bearings—and completed revision of algebraic substitution problems using targeted past HSC questions.

Recent Challenges

In Year 10 algebra, one student was reluctant to show working and often kept calculations in their head; as a tutor noted, "it is difficult knowing where she is stuck if she keeps her process contained within her mind." This led to missed feedback opportunities and repeated errors.

A Year 8 student relied heavily on calculator inputs for linear equations but struggled to clearly transfer results onto paper, resulting in incomplete finishing statements.

Meanwhile, a Year 3 learner's written work sometimes lacked clear logic in multiplication—mistakes compounded when sentence questions weren't translated into sums.

In senior maths, exam preparation faltered when revision focused only on familiar question types rather than new or challenging formats.

Recent Achievements

A Farmborough Heights tutor recently noticed a Year 10 student who used to doubt her algebra skills now independently tackles equations with variables, checking her answers without prompting.

In a senior session, one student who previously struggled with trigonometry began identifying which trig function to use and isolating unknowns correctly after practicing right-angled triangle problems.

Meanwhile, in Year 3 maths, a younger learner who often made mistakes with carrying in addition completed her homework error-free for the first time and remembered to mark her tens throughout all sums.

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 Eagle Vale Library—or at your child's school (with permission), like Cedars Christian College.