In your home, across Canberra
The teacher comes to you.
One-on-one tutoring, K–12. Twenty-two years, one city.
Every tutor WWVP-checked · No lock-in contract · First hour free
Every kind of learner
Designed around
where your child is.
Every family starts with the same free hour. What follows depends entirely on what it finds.
Kindergarten to Year 6
The years where foundations are built — and where a gap is cheapest to fix.
- Phonics, fluency and comprehension
- Writing that holds together
- Number sense before number tricks
- NAPLAN Years 3 and 5
Years 7 to 10
Where invisible gaps become visible marks, and the last comfortable window to fix them.
- Algebra, trigonometry, indices
- Essay structure and analysis
- Junior science and practicals
- Subject choice before Year 11
Years 11 and 12
BSSS, properly understood — unit scores, moderation and how scaling really builds an ATAR.
- Mathematical and Specialist Methods
- Physics, Chemistry, Biology
- English T, Literature, Essential
- Study systems that survive Year 12
Years teaching in Canberra
Long enough to know the system.
Unit scores, moderation, and how ACT scaling actually builds an ATAR. Advice built on the NSW HSC sends students to the wrong Year 11 subjects — we have watched it happen.
Long enough to know the schools.
Which colleges scale which subjects. Which primary schools run which reading programs. What a report card means when it says “working towards”.
Long enough to have been wrong.
Which is why we assess before we teach, put one subject in each lesson, and tell families when their child does not need us. Every one of those rules came from getting it wrong once.
And long enough to still be here.
Franchises open and close in this city. We are part of Choice Education Group, teaching here since 2004, and the person who answers the phone has done this before.
Years 7 to 12
The years where
gaps become marks.
Content that made sense in Year 8 stops working once problems become layered. Year 10 is the last comfortable window to fix it before senior years make it expensive.
Why we assess first
The problem is rarely
where the marks are.
A Year 10 stuck on algebra is often carrying a gap from Year 7 that nobody caught. Drilling Year 10 harder will not touch it.
The same person every week
Progress comes from a relationship, not a roster. Your tutor is your tutor — and if they are unwell we tell you, rather than sending a stranger.
One subject per lesson
An hour split between maths and English helps neither. Depth is what moves a mark.
Supervised, not left alone
Every tutor is reviewed fortnightly by a teaching staff member. That is the difference between hiring a tutor and hiring an organisation that stands behind one.
The goal is not needing us
The best review we get is a parent telling us they do not need us any more.
Online, if you want it
Same tutor.
Same hour. A screen.
Some families are rural, some juggle shift work, and some students focus better with nobody else in the room. Online lessons run exactly like in-home ones.
Most families still choose in-home. We will not talk you into a screen you did not ask for.
Real families. Real Canberra.
What parents
actually tell us.
“My children have benefited greatly from the excellent tutoring offered. Very well organised business.”
“I’ve tried to help him myself. I just don’t understand how they do it these days.”
“I’m actually really after face to face. I don’t want online.”
Parent quotes are used with permission and never identify a child.
How to start
Three ways in.
All of them free.
Call us
Five minutes on the phone. What’s happening, what year level, what subject. We’ll tell you honestly whether we can help.
Send a message
Tell us in writing if that’s easier. We reply within one business day — that’s a promise, not a target.
Book the assessment
One hour with a qualified teacher, and a written report you keep whether or not you book a single lesson.
What we stand for
The rules we
don’t bend.
Checked, every one
Current ACT Working with Vulnerable People registration for every tutor and teacher. Anyone crossing into NSW holds a NSW Working with Children Check too — the schemes are not portable.
We tell you the truth
If the assessment says your child doesn’t need tutoring, we say so. If they need a teacher rather than a tutor, we say that too — even when it costs us the booking.
Nothing locks you in
No contract, no term commitment, no exit fee. You pay per lesson. We would rather earn next week than hold you to paperwork.
“A sure favourite.”
“Canberra Tutoring is a sure favourite.”Region Canberra, The best tutors in Canberra — one of five named, updated December 2025.
The short version
Why families pick us.
Named among Canberra’s best
One of five tutoring services named in Region Canberra’s guide to the best tutors in Canberra, updated December 2025.
Teaching here since 2004
Twenty-two years in this city — long enough to have taught in the same college a parent went to, and to know which primary schools run which reading programs.
Checked twice, not once
Every tutor and teacher holds a current ACT Working with Vulnerable People registration, and everyone who crosses the border to Queanbeyan holds a NSW Working with Children Check as well. Ask for the number before the first lesson.
Qualified teachers, not only tutors
Most tutoring in Canberra is delivered by university students. We field both, and the free assessment decides which one your child actually needs.
A second opinion behind every tutor
Every tutor is reviewed fortnightly by a qualified teacher on staff, so if something is not working it surfaces in a fortnight rather than at the end of term.
An hour before you spend anything
A full 60 minutes with a qualified teacher, at your kitchen table, and a written report you keep whether or not you ever book a lesson.