About Smarties
Smarties Private Tutoring was initially established on the Northern Beaches, Sydney in 2006. Having identified a need within the community to give extra support to children experiencing difficulties at school in English and Maths, Gilly tutored from home whilst her twins were infants. Once they were school-aged, Gilly returned to full time classroom teaching.
Eighteen years later, and still passionate about helping students with learning challenges achieve their goals, Gilly reignited Smarties Private Tutoring. Her vision remains the same: to support individual students by providing imaginative, engaging and sequential tutoring sessions within a relaxed, positive environment where students feel safe to ask questions, revisit old concepts, feel successful and enjoy learning.
Parents and care givers are strongly encouraged to attend in order to support learning at home by using skills and vocabulary taught during sessions.
The teaching studio is bright and spacious with a self-contained garden area allowing for multisensory activities and movement throughout each session.
About Gilly
Gilly is an educational therapist trained through the Orton-Gillingham Academy in Language and Maths. She is a registered tutor for SPELD NSW, and is a registered member of the Australian Tutoring Association and the Australian Dyslexia Association.
Born and educated in England, Gilly’s tertiary qualifications include a BA Honours Degree at Hull University and a Post-Graduate Certificate in Education from University of Cambridge.
Gilly has twenty-five years of classroom teaching experience in primary schools in both England and Australia, teaching across all stages of the primary curriculum.
Gilly’s teaching experience in Australia includes Sydney Grammar Preparatory School, Shore School, St Luke’s Grammar School, Bayview (formally known as Loquat Valley Preparatory School), Abbotsleigh Girls School and Northern Beaches Christian School.
Gilly lives on the Northern Beaches, Sydney, is married with teenage twins. Gilly loves chatting with friends at local cafes, being at the beach, swimming in the ocean and walking her black Labrador. She is a long-distance ocean swimmer and in 2020 became the 4th Australian woman to swim an Ice Mile.
