Primary (K-6) Tutoring

Tutoring Services

Our Primary (K-6) students study the following core subjects with us at Premier Tutors either through group or private one-on-one tutoring:

• Mathematics (K-6)
• English (K-6)
• Thinking Skills (Years 3-5)
• Debating and Public Speaking (Year 3-6)

Other major subjects, including History, Science, Modern Languages, Classics are available via Private Tutoring and Homeschooling.

We have carefully designed our program to:

1. First build a foundation in each student's local curriculum (e.g. Australian, Singaporean, British or American), enabling all of our students to simply achieve much better academic results and confidence in primary school.
2. We then cater separately for our students who require the specific enrichment to become the most competitive students in High School Admissions and Scholarship tests for the world's top selective and private schools.

We do both through:

1. Our Publishing House

We place an unprecedented investment in preparation (currently 10 hours of resource development per 1 hour of teaching) to provide our students with both:‍

1. Deep Understanding – A carefully designed teaching approach from first principles that generates deep understanding instead of superficial, rote learning; and
2. Problem Solving – Through develop problem solving skills tested by the admissions exams, instead of rote learning basic ‘textbook style’ drills and poorly covering higher-level content.

Our K-6 publications have been developed by the world's finest educators. This includes:

• Mathematics – Two past AMO gold medal winners, four former Duxes of Sydney Grammar School and over 20 Oxbridge undergraduates/graduates.
• English – 6 tutors who placed outright 1$^\text{st}$ in NSW for English out of 30,000 students in separate years and over 20 Oxbridge undergraduates/graduates.

Deep Understanding

Students can achieve a deep understanding of a concept when they are taught in a clear and logical way. However, this requires substantial preparation from the teacher.

Consider how fractions are taught at school in year 4. Teachers usually use purely arithmetic and front-loading students with a lot of new terminology. Students often find this approach non-intuitive and unsatisfying. Instead, consider the ease and depth of learning that can occur when a visual method is employed to make understanding fractions intuitive. Simply:

1. Students first visually appreciate $\frac{1}{6}$ in a grid to appreciate a fraction intuitively:

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2. Arithmetic operations are represented visually as well; when the fraction $\frac{1}{6}$ is observed as a visual quantity in a box, it is easy to understand why $\frac{1}{6} \times 2 = \frac{2}{6}$, as you are just multiplying the single box by $2$

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3. We then effortlessly teach students simplification; why $\frac{2}{6}=\frac{1}{3}​$

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The above approach was developed over many weeks of carefully thinking about how to teach fractions within our Publishing House. In devoting this much time to preparation for our students:

• Our students can understand fractions in seconds; not weeks.
• We strip away all unnecessary elements, reducing fractions to just a very simple application of arithmetic (a Kindergarten level concept). Indeed, as fractions now require nothing more than kindergarten arithmetic to understand, we can now teach them in Kindergarten. This is one of the reasons that Premier Tutors students of all abilities are so far ahead of their contemporaries.

Likewise, for English, we teach in an integrated, cultured way that students find interesting. For example, when teaching figurative language (e.g. similes and metaphors) we first expose students to its practical relevance in advertising, rather than taking the approach that schools do of attempting to force an understanding through literature. When we teach literature, we do so in the context of history, culture, and arts, developing matured students who stand a level above their contemporaries. By first generating genuine interest within our students, we can then elevate their appreciation for the language and literature.

This approach of dramatic simplification, as well as visual and practical teaching is how we teach every single topic at Premier Tutors. It is a result of thousands on thousands of hours, twelve years no less, of condensing complicated learning systems. It comes from being hyper-selective in only working with the worlds best educators.

Problem Solving

The second function of our Publishing House is to produce the challenging problem solving questions that are the:

1. Basis for private and selective school admissions exams; and
2. Differentiators in school exams to move students up classes

These questions are difficult and expensive to write (they require highly experienced and distinguished specialists to produce; Premier Tutors currently spends 10 hours of resource development per 1 hour of teaching).

These questions are completely missed at school and by other tutoring providers. Instead, as a proxy for enrichment, students are forced to quickly and poorly cover higher curriculums at a surface-level understanding. It is easier for schools and others superficially accelerate students, as they can use existing school textbooks, rather than creating targeted resources on problem solving to first develop depth in understanding within the student's age group.

Poorly covering higher curriculum content is a poor strategy for students who wish to be high achievers. This is because there is no alignment with this content and the challenging problem solving questions that actually get tested:

Since top schools structure their admissions exams around difficult problem solving, the last thing you want to do is to to prepare for these exams with a superficial understanding of higher curriculum content, as these do not cross over.

The only thing you should be doing is indeed focusing on developing the difficult problem solving skills that deliver the superior academic results needed for competitive admission.

Building this depth in understanding is precisely what we focus on at every age group for our students at Premier Tutors:

2. Personalised, Professional Tutoring

A Snapshot of our K-6 Team

We pair an outstanding K-6 academic curriculum with highly personalised tutoring, with the world's most exceptional private tutors at Premier Tutors:

Lesson Structure

Premier Tutors students have the option of either:

1. Group Classes – Small group classes are the most popular option for K-6 Premier Tutors students, where your children:
   • Will be given hard copies of the Premier Tutors publications for their age group (used during both our lessons and for homework)
   • Will be taught by our specialist K-6 tutors
   • Will have their weekly homework marked by their class tutor, with detailed feedback individually prepared and provided to you as parents and your children
   • End-of-term assessments, with detailed progress reports prepared
   • End-of-term progress meetings with the Premier Tutors team to assess alignment with the goals for your children

2. Private Tutoring – We also offer private one-on-one tutoring, which on top of the above, additionally provides:
   • All lessons are private one-on-one, allowing for a highly individualised focus that is bespoke to your children
   • The ability for you to choose specific tutors for your children, including being able to select our most experienced and distinguished tutors (inc. company directors)
   • The complete flexibility to move lesson times around on a week-by-week basis, particularly helpful for busy schedules

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