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Every child learns differently,
their tutoring should too.

English, Maths, Technology,
Selective & OC.

Dedicated teachers with over 20 years' experience each, a personalised curriculum where needed, and a teacher who watches your child's working — not just their marks at the end. Build confidence. Strengthen skills. Prepare for success.

Eng/Maths CoursesSelective/OC CoursesCoding for KidsGame MakingAI for KidsPublic Speaking
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A teacher working with primary students in class
Every child seen. Every session.Cabramatta and live online across Australia.
Experienced &
dedicated teachersEvery teacher has over 20 years' classroom experience helping children excel — accredited, and trained in the way we teach.
Real practice
under pressurePractice exams marked and explained, so you can see what improved and what still needs work.
Personalised
learningLessons tailored to your child's level, pace and goals so gaps actually close.
Safe, supportive
classroomsCalm, well-run lessons, and teachers who notice when a child goes quiet.

Why parents choose us

We are not a worksheet factory.

A stack of photocopies, a pile of work booklets, and a score at the end of term. None of that answers the question every parent actually has: what is my child getting wrong — and is anyone helping them fix it?

Where our curriculum comes from

We took the exam apart. Then built the lessons.

Our founder worked through the selective and OC papers question type by question type, asking the same thing each time: what is this actually testing? Not a topic — a skill. The answer became a curriculum of 75 trainable skills across the four parts of the test, and every lesson your child sits is aimed at named skills from it. So when a child struggles we are not guessing which chapter to revise — we know which skill is missing, and we already have a lesson built for it. That is the difference between teaching and just handing out harder questions.

18Reading

Inference, author's purpose, vocabulary in context — the things comprehension questions really ask.

21Mathematical reasoning

Turning a worded problem into maths, planning multi-step answers, estimating and checking.

18Thinking skills

Deductive logic, spotting an unstated assumption, knowing what to rule out first.

18Writing

Structure, sentence control, and editing your own work while the clock is running.

And why that beats a score

When a question goes wrong, we name which kind of wrong.

Every mistake your child makes is tagged as one of five things — and each one needs a completely different fix. Drilling more questions only helps the first. A mark out of a hundred cannot tell you which of the five you are dealing with.

Knowledge gapMethod gapMisreadTime pressureLost focus

The SelectiveCoach method

We made the whole thing visible.

Every lesson follows the same simple routine, and everything we find goes onto a record you can actually read.

I

Step one

Find the gap

Every lesson opens with a short warm-up in the real test format. It tells the teacher exactly which skill is missing today — not that maths is weak, but which step your child cannot do yet.

II

Step two

Teach the thinking

One skill at a time, taught properly. Your child works through it while the teacher watches their working on screen — and corrects the method, not just the answer.

III

Step three

Make it stick

A short timed task to finish. Every mistake is recorded by type, your child's progress record updates, and the next lesson starts from what we just saw.

A teacher watching a student's working on a tablet

Transparent lessons

The teacher sees every screen. So do you.

Every child works on an iPad in Plaito — a state-of-the-art online mathematics learning platform. The teacher can see each child’s work during the lesson, so a wrong method is corrected on the spot instead of going home in a workbook. Parents can log in from home and see the real class work — what was covered, how your child went, and the teacher's feedback.

  • ✓Every child writes, every minuteNobody hides. Nobody just watches.
  • ✓Errors corrected as they formBefore a wrong method becomes a habit.
  • ✓Parents see the real workYou can see the real work, any time you like.

See the platform at plaitomaths.com →

Our courses

Courses for Kindergarten to Year 6.

Start where your child is. Each course builds on the one before, so nothing gets missed along the way.

Kindergarten – Year 2

Maths & English Fundamentals

Young children learn best when an idea is something they can see and explore. We build real understanding first, followed by accuracy and fluency through practice, then reasoning, problem solving and higher order thinking. The aim is not just to rote memorise methods, but to understand how and why they work.

  • Weekly 2-hour class
  • Montessori-inspired materials
  • Board games and hands-on activities
  • Leads into Maths & English Fundamentals (Years 3–6)
10 weeks · 2 hrs a week · + $30 materials$495 per term
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Years 3–6

Maths & English Fundamentals

Everything else is built on strong fundamentals. We teach them properly, then take them past the school curriculum, so your child can apply them to unfamiliar problems. This is the work that carries them through high school, even if they never sit a selective or OC test.

  • Weekly 3-hour class
  • Maths & English streams
  • Fortnightly progress reports
  • Feeds into the Selective Course
10 weeks · 3 hrs a week$545 per term
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Years 3–6 · OC + Selective

The Selective Course

Full OC and Selective preparation — Reading, Mathematical Reasoning and Thinking Skills under genuine exam conditions. Start early: this test rewards strong fundamentals applied to unfamiliar problems, not last-minute drilling. If those are not there yet, pair it with Maths & English Fundamentals (Years 3–6) and we will advise you honestly.

  • Weekly 3-hour class
  • OC (Years 3–4) and Selective (Years 5–6) streams
  • 5 full practice exams a term
  • Parent meeting every term
10 weeks · 3 hrs a week$595 per term
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Kindergarten – Year 10 · in centre or live online

One-to-One Private Tutoring

For a specific problem you want sorted out quickly — or a child who simply learns best with a teacher all to themselves. A plan built around your child, four sessions minimum.

Per hourFrom $90
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Separate course · online or in centre

Writing Program (Online or Face-to-Face)

Grammar and punctuation taught properly, then the craft on top: how to show, not tell, how to find an idea worth writing about, and how to handle every style an exam can ask for. Your child learns to write for the marker, and to enjoy writing for themselves. Talk to us about which class is best for your child. Take it on its own, or alongside another course at a discount.

Per term · 1.5 hrs a week$350
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Fees are per 10-week term, with new intakes every term — in centre at Cabramatta or live online across Australia. Holiday practice-exam camps run between terms. Maths & English Fundamentals (K–2) carries a $30 material fee per term. Coding, game making and AI carry an additional software subscription fee. Discounts apply for more than one technology course, or for adding writing or public speaking. Ask us about referral discounts.

Beyond the exam

Technology, taught by someone who builds it.

Coding, game making and AI are taught by a qualified teacher who is also a software engineer with industry experience — someone who has built real software for a living, not a hobbyist working through a course. We also teach public speaking, as a separate course for Years 1 to 6 — the skill school assumes a child already has, and the one that decides how much of what they know ever gets heard.

A teacher and students working together on a game at laptops and tablets

Years 4–12 · $595 a term

Coding for Kids

Children build things they designed — and understand every line they keep.

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Years 4–12 · $595 a term

Game Making

They design and finish a real game — and learn genuine programming doing it.

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Years 4–12 · waitlist

AI for Kids

Not prompting tricks. How AI guesses, how to catch it being wrong, and how to think for yourself.

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Years 1–6 · $350 a term

Public Speaking

Confidence is a skill, not a personality. Every child speaks in every lesson.

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Ask us anything

Five questions worth asking any tutor.

Take these to anyone you are considering — including us. Here are our answers.

  • ✓Who actually teaches my child?A qualified, accredited teacher — every class, every week.
  • ✓Is my child's working watched as they do it?Yes. Every child, every session — not just marked afterwards.
  • ✓Can I see the actual class work?Yes. Log in from home any time and see exactly what was covered.
  • ✓Are there real practice exams under test conditions?Five a term, on computer, in the format of the real thing.
  • ✓Will you tell me the honest truth about my child?Yes — including “not yet”, when that is the honest answer.

Academic leadership

Led by teachers.
Built on method.

SelectiveCoach was built by a qualified mathematics teacher and software engineer who spent over 20 years watching capable children drown in worksheets — then designed the curriculum, the method and the software the college now runs on. Our teachers are qualified and accredited, with over 20 years in the classroom each, and have taught thousands of children across several school systems.

"Children don't need more worksheets. They need someone to notice how they're thinking — and show them a better way."— Founding Principal, SelectiveCoach

Free · no obligation

Start with a free diagnostic.

Your child sits a short free diagnostic so we can identify their strengths and the areas where they need help. Enquire below and we will arrange a time that suits you.

  • 1What your child is strong atAcross reading, maths, thinking skills and writing.
  • 2Where they need helpThe skills we would work on first, and why.
  • 3The right course to start inOur honest recommendation for your child.

There is no cost and no obligation. If we are not the right fit for your child, we will tell you.

Some classes have limited places. If the one you want is full, we add your child to the waiting list and contact you as soon as a place opens or a new class starts. Fill in the form and we will tell you what is available now.
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Questions parents actually ask.

How does the online class actually work?+

Taught live by a teacher over Zoom, with your child working on an iPad in Plaito (plaitomaths.com). The teacher sees each child’s work as the lesson runs. Same lesson, same teacher, whether your child is in our classroom or at home in another state.

Where are classes held?+

In person at our Cabramatta Centre in south-west Sydney, and live online right across Australia — every state, same lesson, same teacher. If you are not within reach of Cabramatta, the online classes are not a lesser version; they run on the same platform, with your child working on an iPad.

Do you only do Selective preparation?+

Not at all. The Maths & English Fundamentals Course runs from Kindergarten to Year 6 and is a full program in its own right — teacher-led Maths and English for children who may never sit a selective test.

My child is in high school — can you help?+

Group courses currently run Kindergarten to Year 6, and one-to-one private tutoring runs to Year 10. Tell us what your child needs and we will let you know how we can help.

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Find out what your child is strong at, and where they need help.

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