Aspiring Learners

About Aspiring Learners

Established in 2020, Aspiring Learners provide targeted tutoring in literacy and numeracy in Wanaka, Queenstown, Central Otago and with online options.

As specialist intervention teachers, Kristin and her team of tutors plan collaboratively to best meet the individual needs of each of their students.

As a team of tutors, they have varied and vast educational backgrounds.  They are passionate about helping students experience success in their learning.

What Aspiring Learners does

Aspiring Learners provides one-on-one tuition in literacy and numeracy, specialising in working with children who have specific learning difficulties, including Dyslexia and Dyscalculia.

The Multi-Sensory approach at Aspiring Learners means children are not learning using a “one size fits all” computer programme  and do not rely solely on meaningless worksheets. They use lots of colour and movement in their lessons to engage learners. Children are encouraged to move their body while learning new skills! Children and their tutors use a range of equipment and visual aids to help the learning become tangible and meaningful.

The tutors at Aspiring Learners pride themselves on sourcing and using the best educational programmes and concepts from both the current New Zealand Curriculum and other proven methods to best meet the learning needs of your child. They create structured programmes that draw on a variety of targeted strategies including specific decoding strategies for reading, structured phonics, phonological awareness programmes and Numicon for Maths.

How Aspiring Learners help children

When first working with Aspiring Learners, they will undertake a diagnostic assessment with your child, looking for their specific learning needs and how they can best help. This individual assessment gives the team at Aspiring Learners the information they need to tailor their teaching and learning programmes to your child’s exact needs.

From there, your child will receive one on one lessons, at first using the information gathered from the initial assessment, and then as they work through the lessons together, using the new knowledge the tutor gathers from how your child is progressing each week.

Where the lessons take place

For your convenience, Aspiring Learners offer tutoring services in some local schools, in their own homes and they can even come to you in your family home. Talk with them about how they can best make it work for you!

What we do to make children and their families feel welcome

The tutors at Aspiring Learners are passionate about learning and see themselves as life-long learners. They work with your child each week and reflect on the prior lesson as they go to refine their plans, making sure your child is getting the teaching that is right for them at the right time.

Your child will feel respected and listened to as an individual and will feel welcome each week and feel comfortable to take risks in their learning.

We would love you to know

We work with children from Year 2 up to Year 10.

We have an online option available if you can’t get to us. This can be a scheduled day/time option with a regular face-to-face meeting to be arranged. Talk to us about how we can work together!

Opening hours: During the school day, after school and weekends.

Kristin and her team have so many wonderful ways they can help your child and they would love to talk with you about the best options for you and your family. Contact Kristin and she’ll put together the best plan for your child!