Private tutoring in Newcastle

Tutoring starts at A$65 per hour. There is no sign-up fee, no joining cost and no contract, and nothing is charged in advance: the lesson happens, the tutor confirms it, and only then is the card billed. A Newcastle family can run one lesson a week, add a second subject for a stretch and drop back again, without renegotiating anything. If a lesson has to move, it moves. Send the quote form on this page and an account manager will confirm the exact hourly rate for the subject and year level before a lesson is booked.

Kindergarten to Year 12, and the spread of subjects a Newcastle school actually teaches. Primary students mostly come for reading, writing and number. Through Years 7 to 10 it is usually maths and English, with science close behind. In Years 11 and 12 the list widens to the sciences, the humanities, business and legal subjects and languages, and lessons follow the student's own HSC courses. One tutor can carry one subject, or a student can hold two tutors for two subjects, billed the same way.

No. Every lesson runs online, over video with a shared whiteboard the tutor and student both write on. Nobody drives to Merewether or Wallsend at six in the evening, and a lesson is not lost to a wet drive across town or a missed bus. What replaces the local tutor is a closer match: the tutor is picked for the student's actual course and NSW syllabus stage rather than for living nearby. A parent can sit in on any lesson, which is easier when it is happening at the kitchen table.

Students from schools such as Merewether High School at Broadmeadow, Newcastle High School at Hamilton South, Warners Bay High School in Lake Macquarie, Newcastle Grammar School in the city and Hunter Valley Grammar School at Ashtonfield work with Tutero tutors. There is no partnership with any of them: the tutor simply follows the course and the assessment schedule that school is running. Senior study at these schools leads to the HSC, or to the International Baccalaureate Diploma at the ones that offer it, and Tutero matches tutors for both.

Say so, and it changes. Matching is a person's job at Tutero rather than an algorithm's: an account manager takes the subject, the year level, the syllabus stage and the way the student likes to be taught, then puts forward a tutor who teaches that course. If the first pairing does not click, tell the account manager and a different tutor is arranged at no extra charge. Nothing is locked in, so a swap costs a conversation instead of a cancellation fee. Most Newcastle students stay with the tutor they start with, but the door is open either way.

Start with the quote form on this page: year level, subjects, and what needs to change. An account manager calls, usually inside a day, and asks about the school, the marks so far and what the student wants out of it. They come back with a tutor and a lesson time that fits around school, sport and shift work. The first lesson is a working one rather than an interview: the tutor opens on the topic the student is stuck on. Lessons then run weekly at the same time unless you say otherwise.