Your questions, answered plainly.
The discovery call and trial lesson exist to answer most of these in person — but here are the plain facts up front, on fit, fees, delivery and how the practice runs.
Fit & approach
Then we'll say so. The discovery call and the free trial lesson exist to find that out honestly, before either of us commits to more. If it isn't right, no one is worse off for having looked.
Any student from around Year 3 through VCE — the practice works across that whole span. It suits families who want writing genuinely built, not a single SAC crammed the week before. If your child needs the craft rebuilt from habit and judgement up rather than a quick patch, this is the place for it.
No. The practice works at the level of habit, judgement and voice, not a fixed framework. Every student arrives with their own text-types, habits and hold-ups; the work is built around theirs, not a uniform sequence or a worksheet pack.
I am the only tutor. Your child is taught, every single week, by the same person — never handed to a rotating cast of casual tutors, and never worked through a franchised script. One reader holds the whole year, learns how your child thinks, and teaches to a standard I can show you on the page.
Marks follow from rebuilt habits, not the other way round — so I don't sell a guaranteed number by a certain date. What you can expect is visible change in the writing itself within a few weeks, and marks moving over a term or two as the new habits hold. I'd rather be honest about that than promise a figure I can't control.
Lessons & delivery
Online, over Google Meet. That means families anywhere in Australia can enrol — lesson times are simply arranged around your state's clock.
Yes. Because every lesson is online, where you are makes no difference. Students in any Australian state are welcome, and times are set to suit your time zone.
A laptop or tablet with a working camera and microphone, a steady internet connection, and a quiet place to work. Everything else — the writing, the shared documents, the lesson link — is handled through the portal and Google Meet.
Weekly, one hour, at a fixed time that's yours. Most of the work compounds week to week, so a regular slot matters more than the occasional long session.
Work between lessons is encouraged but never compulsory. School comes first. When a student does submit writing through the portal, it's read closely and shapes the lesson that follows — but the hour itself is the heart of the work.
Yes. A second student — a sibling or a friend — can join the same hour for $20 more. It's whatever pairing you'd like to arrange, sharing the one lesson.
Fees & scheduling
The discovery call and the trial lesson are free. Weekly lessons are $120 for the hour, with an extra $20 for each additional student in the same lesson. Billed weekly by direct debit — and only once the work is underway and you've chosen to continue.
Let me know at least 24 hours ahead and we'll reschedule to another time that week wherever I can — the aim is always to move the lesson, not lose it. Cancellations inside 24 hours are charged, since the slot was held for your child and can't be filled at that notice.
Any time. The weekly direct debit is yours to pause, adjust, or stop whenever you choose — no notice period, no exit fee, no obligation to continue a term you don't want.
By default, yes — holidays are valuable, unhurried time to get ahead. But it's entirely your call: continue, lighten, or pause over the break. If you pause, the billing pauses with it.
Yes, genuinely. This is a solo practice, so the number of students I can hold properly is finite. When it's full, it's full — and I'd rather keep a waitlist than teach more students than I can do justice to.
About the teaching
I will — every lesson, personally. There are no other tutors, no subcontractors, no handovers. I hold a current Working with Children Check, a bachelor's degree, and I'm completing a master's; but the truest measure of the standard I teach to is the writing on the site, written in my own hand.
Not directly. I work from the school reports, marks and feedback you share, which inform the diagnostic and the plan — but I don't contact teachers myself. I do warmly encourage you to submit any teacher feedback through the portal, so I can understand your school's specific priorities and how writing is being taught in that classroom.
Through the portal. Every session is logged with a full record, a written summary, any work set, and the next steps — alongside marks tracked across the year. The whole trajectory stays legible to you, without you needing to sit in on the lesson.
A question the page didn’t answer is best answered in person. The discovery call is twenty minutes, free — enough to tell whether this is a fit for your child before anything is committed.