Weekly live sessions with the same tutor for Townsville families: maths, English and science from Prep to Year 10, NAPLAN, and honest senior-years support, starting with a free online Skills Check and priced from $25 an hour.
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RHZ Tutoring is a Melbourne centre that tutors students online across Australia, and Townsville is one of the places we hear from most. Below: why families in Townsville use us, what is specific to Queensland (NAPLAN, selective and scholarship testing, and the QCE), how online sessions run and what time they fall in Townsville, subjects from Prep to Year 12, pricing, practice papers you can download today, and the questions Townsville parents ask first.
Townsville is the largest city in northern Australia, with a big Defence community at Lavarack Barracks and RAAF Base Townsville, a university, and a school population that turns over as families are posted in and out. The tutoring options a family had in Brisbane, Sydney or Canberra are usually not available here in the same depth.
Start with the curriculum. Every state's Prep to Year 10 maths, English and science syllabus is built on the Australian Curriculum (version 9), and Queensland is no exception, so the content a Year 8 student in Townsville is doing this term is the content our tutors teach every day. Names differ (Foundation here, Prep there; a NESA or SCSA document rather than a Victorian one) but the sequence does not, and the tutor confirms the school's current unit in the first session.
The second reason is the free online Skills Check, which no local centre in Townsville offers in this form. It is pitched at the top of the child's year level, drawn from a bank of 5,900 questions across Prep to Year 12, and produces a topic-by-topic report the same day. Instead of an enrolment chat and a generic placement test, you get a specific list: these topics are secure, these are shaky, these earlier-year skills are missing. A tutor then calls you for a free consultation to walk through it, and the first paid session is teaching rather than diagnosing.
Third, and for Townsville families often first: access. A Year 10 student who needs help with science, or a Year 5 student who needs a literacy specialist, should not be limited by which tutors happen to live within driving distance. Online sessions give a child in Townsville the same tutor a Melbourne child gets, matched by subject and level rather than by postcode, with no travel time on either side.
Then there is price. Small online groups are from $25 an hour and one-to-one is $35 to $45 an hour depending on year level, the same as our Melbourne families pay, with no lock-in and a free Skills Check and consultation first. We would rather you compare that against what a local centre in Townsville quotes for the same hour than take our word for it.
Defence families in particular use online tutoring for continuity: a child keeps the same tutor through a posting to Townsville and through the posting after it, and the Skills Check shows exactly what the last school covered and what the next one will expect.
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Because NAPLAN is set nationally, a Townsville student in Year 3, 5, 7 or 9 sits precisely the test our Melbourne students sit, in the same March window, on the same screen-based adaptive format. We prepare for it the same way everywhere: a Skills Check to find the domain and the skills that need work, a short program that teaches them, then NAPLAN-style questions to check they have stuck. Writing, where a single task carries the most marks, gets a plan for both the persuasive and the narrative prompt.
Queensland does not run a statewide selective test. The selective-entry options are the Queensland Academies (science, mathematics and technology in Brisbane; health sciences on the Gold Coast; creative industries in Brisbane), academic-merit entry at Brisbane State High School, and the scholarship and extension programs individual state and independent schools run with their own testing. For all of them the preparation is what it is for a scholarship exam anywhere: reading, maths above year level, reasoning and timed writing.
Years 11 and 12 in Queensland lead to the QCE: General subjects combine school-based internal assessments with an external examination set by the QCAA, and results feed the ATAR through QTAC. RHZ tutors the QCE the way we tutor every non-Victorian senior certificate: we support the underlying maths, English and science skills and the study technique a Year 11 or 12 student needs, but we do not claim QCE syllabus or school-assessment expertise. In practice that means a Year 11 student in Townsville can use us for the algebra, calculus and problem-solving that every senior maths course rests on, the analytical and persuasive writing every senior English course assesses, the chemistry, physics and biology concepts and the way to write a scientific explanation, and the habits of planning, note-making and timed practice. What we will not do is pretend to know your school's assessment program better than the teacher who wrote it.
Our material lines up with what is taught at Townsville Grammar School, Pimlico State High School, Kirwan State High School and The Cathedral School and every other school in Townsville for Prep to Year 10, because all of them plan from the same Australian Curriculum content. Bring the latest school test or assignment to the first session and the tutor will see immediately how the school is assessing.
Sessions run live over video with a tutor based in Melbourne. They are not recorded lessons and not an app: it is the same tutor every week, who knows your child, using the same Skills Check, planning and reporting as our Truganina centre.
Townsville is the same time as Melbourne while Melbourne is on AEST (April to early October) and 1 hour behind Melbourne once Melbourne moves to AEDT: a 4pm session booked in Melbourne time is 4pm in Townsville in winter and 3pm in the southern summer. Townsville is on AEST all year (Queensland does not observe daylight saving).
| Melbourne slot | Townsville time (Melbourne on AEST) | Townsville time (Melbourne on AEDT) |
|---|---|---|
| Weekday 4pm | 4pm | 3pm |
| Weekday 5pm | 5pm | 4pm |
| Weekday 6pm | 6pm | 5pm |
| Saturday 11am | 11am | 10am |
We book in your local time, confirm the Melbourne equivalent in writing, and adjust automatically when Melbourne changes clocks in October and April. All a student needs is a laptop or tablet with a camera, a stable connection and a quiet spot; for maths, a phone pointed at the page lets the tutor watch the working.
Maths (number, fractions, measurement, problem solving), English (reading, phonics, spelling, grammar and writing), and NAPLAN preparation for Years 3 and 5.
Maths, English and science to the Australian Curriculum, NAPLAN for Years 7 and 9, and preparation for scholarship and selective-entry tests.
Skills support in senior maths, English and the sciences, plus study technique and timed practice. We do not claim QCE syllabus or school-assessment expertise; see the Queensland section above.
Small online groups of two to four at the same year level from $25 an hour, or one-to-one from $35 an hour. The same tutor every week, a free Skills Check first and a progress note after every session.
The Skills Check is free, online, and works in Townsville exactly as it does in Truganina. Your child does 10 to 15 minutes of questions pitched at the top of their year level, drawn from a 5,900-question bank covering Prep to Year 12, and you receive a topic-by-topic report the same day. A tutor then calls you for a free consultation to walk through it. Many families run it in Term 4 to plan the next year, and again before NAPLAN or a selective test.
There is no card and no commitment. If the result shows your child is on track, we will say so; if it shows a gap, we will tell you exactly which topics and suggest a plan.
One-to-one online tutoring is $35–$45 an hour by year level; small online groups of up to four are from $25 an hour. Prices are the same as for families who come to our Melbourne centre; there is no interstate surcharge. Plans are monthly, you choose the number of sessions a week, and you can pause or cancel any time. The Skills Check and the consultation are free.
Our Australian-curriculum practice papers are sold as instant PDF downloads: buy from Townsville, print at home, and mark against the included answers. They cover primary maths and English, Years 7 to 10 maths, and NAPLAN-style reading, writing and numeracy for Years 3, 5, 7 and 9, all of which line up with the Queensland syllabus because they are written to the same Australian Curriculum content. Many families use them alongside tutoring, or on their own between Skills Checks.
Browse all practice papers (instant PDF) →
For Prep to Year 10, yes in substance: Queensland's syllabus is built on the Australian Curriculum, the same as Victoria's, and our tutors work from the school's current unit. For Years 11 and 12 we are honest: we support the maths, English and science skills and the study technique a QCE student needs, but we do not claim QCE syllabus or school-assessment expertise, and we will say so if a subject is outside what we can help with.
Townsville is the same time as Melbourne while Melbourne is on AEST (April to early October) and 1 hour behind Melbourne once Melbourne moves to AEDT. A 4pm weekday session in Melbourne time is 4pm in Townsville (3pm during Melbourne daylight saving). We book in your local time, confirm the Melbourne equivalent in writing, and adjust automatically when clocks change.
For Prep to Year 10, yes in content and sequence. Each state publishes its own version (NESA syllabuses in New South Wales, the SCSA curriculum in Western Australia, the Victorian Curriculum in Victoria) but all are built on the Australian Curriculum version 9, so a Year 5 child in Townsville is doing the same fractions, decimals and measurement as a Year 5 child in Melbourne. Years 11 and 12 are where the states genuinely differ.
Yes, for Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. NAPLAN is a national test, so a Townsville student sits exactly the test our Melbourne students sit. Small online groups by year level run from Term 4 to the March test window, built from the Skills Check, and one-to-one is available all year.
Yes. Queensland has no statewide selective test, but the Academies, Brisbane State High's academic-merit entry and the independent schools each run their own testing, and the skills are the same: maths and reading above year level, reasoning, and timed writing. We prepare for those online, built from a Skills Check.
The same as in Melbourne: small online groups from $25 an hour and one-to-one $35 to $45 an hour depending on year level. Plans are monthly with no lock-in. The Skills Check and the consultation are free, and there is no interstate surcharge.
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