Answered plainly,
including the awkward ones.

Six at most at SACE, eight in Years 7 to 10, and usually fewer. That cap is the point of the business rather than a marketing number. Past that, a session stops being a conversation and starts being a class, and a student who is stuck can sit quietly through the whole hour without anyone noticing.

One-to-one is available if that suits your kid better.

In your home, at a public library, or online. We teach across Adelaide and the Adelaide Hills.

There is no centre to come to yet. One is coming, and until then those three are the choice.

Afternoons and evenings, booked by the hour. Tell us the days that suit your kid and we will be straight about what we can offer.

Once a time is set it can stay the same each week, with the same tutor, if that suits. Or one session at a time, and you can stop whenever you like.

Yes. One-to-one rates start from $90 an hour in your home, $80 at a library and $70 online.

If you are not sure which would suit your kid, say so in the first conversation and we will suggest one. It can change later. Nothing is signed either way.

One-to-one rates start from $90 an hour in your home, $80 at a library and $70 online. Small groups start from $45 a student, an hour. There are no contracts, no term prepayments and no joining fee.

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No. Sessions are booked by the hour and invoiced afterwards, so nothing is paid up front and there is no term to prepay. Payment is due within seven days of the session.

There is no contract to leave and no notice period to serve. See the full fee list

Give us twenty-four hours’ notice and there is nothing to pay, whether you cancel or reschedule. Inside that, we will try to move the session to another time that week. If we cannot, half the hour is charged. If nobody is there at the agreed time and we have not heard from you, the hour is charged in full. Either way we tell you before it reaches an invoice. If your kid is unwell, neither applies.

If we ever have to cancel, we reschedule to suit you or we do not charge. The terms in full

There is no free lesson. What is free is the first conversation and the diagnostic task before the first session, so the first paid hour is spent teaching.

And nothing is signed, so if the first session is not right for your kid there is nothing to get out of.

Right now, the two founders take the sessions. Both are registered teachers who are teaching in schools this year, and not whoever an agency had free.

As we grow, other tutors will take some sessions. Each clears the standard set out on the Your teacher page, and each is named there, with what they teach, before anything is booked. See who teaches

Five things, done by the founder personally, before anyone teaches: identity confirmed against photo identification, a current Working with Children Check verified through the Screening Unit rather than from a screenshot, qualifications checked against the original documents, a referee who has seen them work with children spoken to directly, and child safe training completed with our code of conduct signed.

If a tutor’s check is cancelled or expires, they stop teaching for us that day. How we keep sessions safe

SACE Stage 1 and Stage 2 follow the SACE Board subject outlines, which are the same for everyone. Below that, South Australia is moving to its own SA Curriculum, adapted from the Australian Curriculum. The rollout is happening in stages, and the department expects to finish it in 2027.

Schools are at different points with that change, and they sequence Years 7 to 10 differently anyway, so two students in the same year level can genuinely be on different topics. Rather than assume, we work from what your kid covered in class this week. Bring the topic name off their timetable and we will map it.

The South Australian Certificate of Education, Stage 1 and Stage 2, across mathematics, science and technologies.

This one catches a lot of people out. At Stage 1 the subject is simply Mathematics, which schools timetable as Methods A, B and C. Mathematical Methods and Specialist Mathematics exist only at Stage 2. The full explanation, with the Year 12 pathways

Ask us anyway. The subjects listed on this site are the ones we can help with today. English, Humanities, Languages and The Arts are not open for booking yet.

If one of those is what your kid needs, tell us. We will be straight with you about where it is up to, and we will try to find you someone.

At home, a parent or another adult you nominate is there for the whole session, and if nobody is home the tutor does not come in. It runs at the kitchen table or somewhere equally open, never a bedroom and never behind a closed door, and the tutor does not take your kid anywhere or supervise siblings.

At a library, sessions run in the open study areas, never in a closed room, and you can stay for any part of it. Online, you hold the joining details, your kid joins from an open part of the house, the tutor’s camera stays on the whole time, and nothing is recorded unless you ask for it in writing. The full policy

Email hello@studynote.com.au at any time, about anything: how a session ran, how a tutor behaved, or anything else. We acknowledge it within two business days and give you a written outcome within ten, and raising a concern never affects your kid’s place with us.

If it is about a teacher, or you would rather not raise it with us, the Department of Human Services Screening Unit on 1300 321 592 issues and monitors the Working with Children Check. If it is about how StudyNote is run, the Child Safe Environments team at dhs.childsafe@sa.gov.au is the right place. Consumer and Business Services SA is on 131 882.

Before it, a short diagnostic task, so the first hour is not spent working out where your kid is. Then a conversation with you about what you have been seeing at home, which is usually more useful than the marks.

The first conversation costs nothing and commits you to nothing.

Every session ends with practice notes, and there is a short progress note before each assessment. You will be able to see what has been covered and what is still shaky, without having to ask.

Send the enquiry form, ring us, or send an email. A subject expert reads it and replies within one to two business days, even if the answer is that we are not the right fit. Then a free conversation of about twenty minutes, by phone or online, mostly us listening.

Before the first session, a short task for your kid, so the first paid hour is spent teaching rather than working out where they are. What happens, and when