Years 7 - 12 Face-to-Face Tuition

The focus at FergHSC is the development of appropriate skills for success in a range of subjects.

Our central premise is that skill is a more significant factor than talent in achieving successful outcomes for students.

“Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.”

We cover the most popular subjects.

A large part of what we do at FergHSC is provide motivation for our students as they progress through the various stages of their schooling.

One of our favourite quotes at tour tuition centre is the Muhammed Ali quote:

"I run on the road long before I dance under the lights"

All of FergHSC teachers are fully qualified teachers with a detailed knowledge of the NSW Board of Studies outcomes. In addition to only appointing professional teachers to work with students, Fergus individually trains teachers in the "FergHSC approach".

Year 12 and the HSC can be a challenging year for parents as well as students. At FergHSC we have experienced just about everything when it comes to dealing with the challenges of the HSC. We have close relationships with the parents of our students and we are always available to discuss your student's progress and if necessary, have meetings to ensure your student stays on track. We also send out monthly reporting to keep you up to date with your students progress.

 There is nothing quite like receiving news of our students fantastic results especially when the student has beat the schools expectations, their own expectations and their parents expectations.

Click here to read some our students testimonials.

FergHSC was established in 1996 as a professional tutoring service to help senior school English students learn to write great essays and really come to terms with the HSC preliminary course and the HSC itself.

In recent years we have extended the range of high school subjects we offer face to face tuition to include Maths,Chemistry,Physics, Modern History, Ancient History, Business Studies,& Economics.

We also offer junior face to face tuition(Years 9 to 11) in Maths and English. All of our subjects are taught by fully trained teachers who have been personally trained by Fergus in the FergHSC systems of learning.

The founder of the business, Fergus Gardiner, has had extensive experience teaching in NSW schools and for many years marked the HSC in English. Fergus, on the basis of much research and experience, has developed a range of strategies to assist students maximize their results.

We call our place of work “the office” as we like to treat students like adults. At “the office” effective learning and great results are the key agendas. When students attend classes the priority is getting students on task straight away. Whilst we have extensive resources available to students, our focus is on making progress with essay writing or exam style questions.

Our objective is for students i to walk out of class each week having made progress with a particular task as well as having a very clear direction on how move forward with an essay or topic.

The central focus at FergHSC tuition centre is the development of the appropriate skills for success in a range of subjects. We feel that generally schools do a good job of teaching content, however due to the class sizes and the nature of classroom dynamics students fail to come to terms with the appropriate skill sets required for exam and assessment success. Our central premise is that skill is a more significant factor than talent in achieving successful outcomes for students. We are all about teaching skill.

It is out goal to create the autonomous independent learner. For example, , writing essays is about the experience, a central part of this experience is acknowledging that you will make mistakes on the way. Mistakes are not a signifier of incompetence; they are an integral part of the learning progress. Our mission is to resolve these mistakes, creating competency and confidence leading to a great academic performance.

At FergHSC, we focus on what students are actually doing at school. It is not our agenda to run a separate programme. We seek to support them along their HSC journey rather than over load them with an additional programme.

All of our teachers are highly experienced and have high levels of competency in NSW schools curriculum expectations. Our teaching strategies are aligned to educational outcomes stipulated by schools.

We certainly subscribe to the view contained in the Chinese proverb: “Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime”.