Ivy Elite Education

English tutoring for students, Year 3 to VCE

Victorian curriculum texts & films we teach

A selection of the texts and films we teach
The Memory Police  ·  Macbeth  ·  High Ground  ·  Sunset Boulevard  ·  Born a Crime  ·  Twelfth Night  ·  Jane Eyre  ·  Medea  ·  Foreign Soil  ·  12 Angry Men  ·  Oedipus the King  ·  Wuthering Heights  ·  The Little Prince  ·  Romeo and Juliet  ·  The Truman Show  ·  New and Selected Poems (Mary Oliver)  ·  Ghost Wall  ·  Regeneration  ·  The Outsiders  ·  We Have Always Lived in a Castle  ·  The Breakfast Club  ·  Selected Poems (Langston Hughes)  ·  Orbital  ·  Frankenstein  ·  My Brilliant Career  ·  Animal Farm  ·  Chronicle of a Death Foretold  ·  The Complete Stories (David Malouf)  · 

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Knowing Before Thinking: Step 1 of Learning English

Kylie on where to start with learning English — joined by Sophie, a Year 12 student who’s been with us since Year 7.

We build English skills through structured lessons

Year 3–6

Vocabulary, grammar, reading real texts, poem & song lyric analysis, creative & persuasive writing.

Year 7–9

Grammar, metalanguage, texts & film analysis, advanced creative & persuasive writing, poem analysis.

Year 10–12

Full VCE preparation: text & film response writing, crafting texts, argument analysis, persuasive oral presentation.

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We provide extra support for student goals

Scholarship & Selective Entry

Entry exam preparation for scholarship, selective-entry and SEAL: ACER, Edutest and AAS.

VCE

Consistent feedback and preparation across all SACs and exams.

EAL

Language fluency, grammatical accuracy and the cultural context behind the topics studied in class.

We also offer PhonicsSystematic sound-and-letter teaching that helps early readers decode words and read with confidence., AEASTargeted English preparation for the AEAS assessment, used by many independent schools to evaluate international applicants. and Interview PreparationCoaching for scholarship, selective-entry and school interviews — building clear, confident answers under pressure.

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Student & Parent Testimonials

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Joyce wrote a poem about a tree at school, and her teacher loved it so much she had her read it aloud to the whole class. Thank you Kylie.
Joyce K's mother | Year 6
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I used to just summarise the plot in my essays. I now look for what the author is actually trying to say.
Chloe Y | Year 8
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Eric won a scholarship into Knox. Writing has always been his weakest area, but he has improved a lot now.
Eric G's father | Year 7
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Starting the speech SAC early made the difference. I focused on keeping the class engaged the whole way through, and it went better than I'd hoped.
Sophie L | Year 11
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An official scholarship offer from Haileybury came while we were away on holiday — wonderful news to come home to.
Lionel S's mother | Year 6
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Working with Otto, English became one of my strongest subjects in Year 12.
Cassie R | Year 12

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