Tutors in Thorneside include an ATAR 99.1 physics scholar with three years' experience, a school captain and STEM ambassador with a 97.95 ATAR, a Master's-level psychology graduate with nearly a decade tutoring K–12, an academic medallist and rhythmic gymnastics coach, experienced early childhood educators, and specialist maths mentors recognized for competition excellence and peer leadership.
Afolabi is an excellent tutor and a really polite young man. He is really helping Havana to understand what she is learning in class, turning the lightbulb on for her. Havana enjoys his company and how he works with her and she is really happy, as am I. We look forward to continuing with him.Elisha, Thorneside
Year 3 student Sarah explored multiplication by creating arrays to model equal groups and practiced interpreting bar graphs from real data.
Year 9 student Josh focused on solving quadratic equations and analyzed exponential functions alongside their graphs.
Meanwhile, Year 10 student Emily reviewed arithmetic and geometric sequences using visual patterns and worked through time series problems involving seasonal trends with simple diagrams.
In Year 2 Maths, "Lucas sometimes draws an extra circle or misses one because he is really fast," highlighting that rushing through visual models led to overlooked errors in regrouping ones and tens.
When working on coin addition and subtraction, Lucas relied on counting with his fingers; as a tutor noted, "we were able to start different strategies instead of using our fingers," but he still hesitated when numbers appeared in new formats.
In Year 3 English, Cooper struggled to write questions from statements and mixed up letters like 'a' and 'b,' which made written work hard to follow and slowed progress in spelling practice.
A Thorneside tutor recently saw real breakthroughs across different year levels.
In Year 11 maths, Ruby moved from confusion to confidently applying the seasonal index formula to real-world trend problems on her own.
Another high school win: Isaac, who'd previously hesitated with exponential functions, was able to graph them and accurately predict their behavior without prompting.
Meanwhile, in primary sessions, Lucas—who used to struggle with regrouping—now completes multi-digit addition and subtraction exercises independently and even finishes his homework solo. Last week, he chose the number line method for multiplication without needing a reminder.
