English Tutor Tarneit | RHZ Tutoring

Tarneit is one of the youngest suburbs in Victoria by median age, with a large share of families who moved here for space and schooling. Many of our Tarneit students attend the newer P-9 colleges and then move to Tarneit Senior College for VCE, so the transition years (Year 6 to 7, and Year 9 to 10) come up often in our consultations.

English tutor for Tarneit families

The English tutoring we do for Tarneit families changes shape with the year level. Prep to Year 2 is systematic phonics, fluency and hearing the child read every session. Years 3 to 6 is comprehension (finding evidence, inferring, summarising) and structured writing, the two things NAPLAN assesses. Years 7 to 10 is the move from retelling to analysing: how an author builds meaning, how a writer builds an argument. VCE English is text response, comparative and argument analysis, with a timed essay every week.

Sessions are built around writing, not just talking about writing. A typical hour includes a short comprehension or vocabulary task, one explicit teaching point (embedding a quotation, using a topic sentence, varying sentence openings), a piece of writing done in the session, and immediate marking against the criteria a teacher would use. Students keep a running list of their own recurring errors and watch it shrink. Homework is short: a reading task and a paragraph, or a Mastery Booklet on the week's skill.

Two patterns come up constantly in Tarneit: the child who reads a lot but writes poorly, and the child for whom English is a second language at home. They need different tutoring. The first needs explicit teaching of how to plan, structure and edit; the second needs the mechanics of English (tense, articles, sentence structure) taught patiently alongside reading. The Skills Check tells us which, and the tutor is matched accordingly.

One-to-one English is $35 to $45 an hour by year level and is the format we use for Prep to Year 2 (the tutor must hear the child read) and for VCE essay work. Small groups of three to five from $25 an hour run for Years 3 to 10, grouped by level. Both are available at our Truganina centre and online; online English works well because the writing is shared on screen and marked live.

Tarneit students at the centre attend Tarneit P-9 College, Tarneit Senior College, Tarneit Rise Primary School, Davis Creek Primary School, Baden Powell College, Thomas Carr College and Good News Lutheran College. A tutor will always ask for the latest school test or assessment rubric, because that is the fastest way to see how a particular school marks. Tarneit to our Truganina centre at 17/47 Apex Drive, Truganina VIC 3029 is about 5 minutes by car, straight down Leakes Road. The centre is also about four minutes from Tarneit station, which is the easiest option for secondary students who travel on their own after school. There is free parking at the door on Apex Drive, so pick-up and drop-off take a minute, not a lap of a shopping centre car park.

After-school sessions at the centre run from 3:30 pm to 7 pm Monday to Thursday and 3:30 pm to 6 pm on Friday. In practice most Tarneit families take a 4 pm or 4:30 pm slot, which leaves time for the school pick-up and the 5-minute drive. Sessions are an hour, and students who arrive early sit in the quiet room and start their homework.

Schools our Tarneit students come from

Tarneit P-9 College
Tarneit Senior College
Tarneit Rise Primary School
Davis Creek Primary School
Baden Powell College
Thomas Carr College
Good News Lutheran College

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How it works

Free Skills Check. Your child does the free online Skills Check (10–15 minutes) pitched at the top of their year level. You get a topic-by-topic report the same day.

Free consultation. We call you for a free consultation, go through the result together and suggest a starting point and a format. Nothing is charged until you decide to go ahead.

Targeted sessions. Sessions begin with a matched tutor who already teaches other Tarneit students, with a plain-English progress note to you after every session.

Pricing

One-to-one tutoring is $35–$45 an hour depending on the year level; small groups of up to five are from $25 an hour. Plans are monthly, you choose how many sessions a week, and you can cancel any time. The Skills Check and the consultation are free. Online and in-person sessions cost the same.

Frequently asked questions

Can the tutor help with the novel my child is studying at school?

Yes. Bring the text and the essay question; the tutor works on that. Practising analysis on the set text is the fastest way to lift the next assessment.

Do you teach spelling and grammar?

Yes. Primary sessions include phonics, spelling patterns and grammar every week. Secondary sessions teach grammar and punctuation in context, marking the student's own writing and teaching the rule where the error appears.

How long before writing improves?

Structural improvements (paragraphing, answering the question) usually show within four to six sessions. Vocabulary, sentence variety and spelling improve more gradually and depend on reading at home, which we set as homework.

Where is the English tutoring held for Tarneit families?

At our Truganina centre, 17/47 Apex Drive, Truganina VIC 3029, about 5 minutes from Tarneit (straight down Leakes Road), or online with the same tutor. The centre is four minutes from Tarneit station with free parking outside.

What does it cost?

Small groups of three to five students are from $25 an hour. One-to-one is $35 to $45 an hour depending on year level, with VCE at the top of the range. The Skills Check and the consultation are free, plans are monthly and you can cancel any time.

How do we start?

Your child does the free online Skills Check (10 to 15 minutes, at home). A tutor calls you for a free consultation, goes through the result and recommends a format and a starting point. Nothing is charged until you decide to go ahead.