Gill Scott – Specialist learning support to help your child move forward
When learning feels like a struggle, it can be hard to know what’s holding your child back. You may have concerns about literacy or wonder if your child is showing signs of dyslexia or another specific learning difficulty.
Gill Scott offers a calm; professional service focused on identifying the barriers to your child’s learning and finding ways to help them succeed. With more than two decades of experience in education and learning support, Gill works closely with you and your
child’s school to build the right support, one step at a time.
Based on Auckland’s North Shore, Gill offers both assessments and tutoring, in her welcoming home office or at school if preferred. Her approach is warm, flexible and always centred on what’s best for your child.
Who is Connect to Success?
Gill originally trained in the UK and has specialised in learning difficulties for over 22 years. Her qualifications include a Master’s in Learning Difficulties, a Postgraduate Certificate in Specific Learning Difficulties, and training in Educational Psychology
and Dyslexia.
She has worked as a specialist teacher and advisor, spent time with Dyslexia Action in the UK, and later supported learners through the Ministry of Education in New Zealand. Gill now runs her own service with the goal of providing a professional, caring and adaptable option for families.
Gill is known for putting children at ease, helping them feel safe, understood and ready to engage in the process.
What Connect 2 Success Offers
Gill’s service includes both brief assessments and individualised tuition:
Assessments
Gill provides screening and brief assessments that cover important areas of learning such as:
- Phonological awareness
- Phonic knowledge
- Visual perceptual skills
- Memory and sequencing
- Auditory and visual processing
- Fine and gross motor skills
These assessments are designed to uncover both strengths and challenges and help determine what support is needed.
Tuition
If your child needs further support, Gill designs a personalised programme aimed at actively involving them in their own learning. Sessions are structured, fun, and help your child build skills at their own pace.
Gill uses a range of trusted programmes including:
- Dyslexia Action programme
- The Sonday System™ – a structured, multi-sensory literacy approach
- STEPS – a programme combining digital and workbook activities
- Additional resources selected to match your child’s needs
How does Connect 2 Success help?
Gill provides a flexible and welcoming service. Sessions can take place in her home office in Long Bay or at your child’s school if preferred. She understands that assessments or tutoring can sometimes feel daunting, so she focuses on making each experience as relaxed and supportive as possible.
Gill is happy to meet with you to talk through options before you make any commitments. Everything she does is aimed at working with families to find what’s right for each individual child.
When to reach out
If your child is facing literacy challenges, or if you’ve been told they may need extra support, Gill’s brief assessments and individualised tuition can provide clarity and confidence. Her goal is to find the best possible solutions so your child can learn and grow.
Gill is happy to meet with you and discuss possible options for your child, before you make any commitments.
Services
Assessment:
- Brief assessments for students with difficulties in literacy.
Tuition:
- For students with dyslexia & specific learning difficulties.
- Programmes designed for individuals or small groups.
Services
Assessment:
- Brief assessments for students with difficulties in literacy.
Tuition:
- For students with dyslexia & specific learning difficulties.
- Programmes designed for individuals or small groups.
Gill has been working with our daughter for the past 2 years. She is very supportive and patient tutor who really cares for the kids she works with. It has been wonderful to see our daughter’s confidence and abilities flourish.
Gill Scott has been an outstanding Literacy tutor for our daughter over the last 5 years. Highly qualified, deeply knowledgeable and wonderfully empathetic. Gill bought skill and care to our daughter’s twice weekly sessions. Gill developed a quick rapport and took the time to understand her individual learning style. Gill is kind and calm and has had a positive impact on our daughter’s learning outcomes
Thank you so much for the time that you spent with our daughter last year and your concluding report. I can only say that it came as an overwhelming relief to both her and us as parents to finally put some structure around the difficulties she was having. It has given her so much more confidence going into her Senior exams knowing now that she has areas of strength and some strategies for her points of struggle. It has enabled her teachers to add some layers to certain topics to further develop her learning and bridge some gaps that you identified. On the whole, the result we have a seen is a child that less stressed and more understood for which made the journey completely worthwhile. I can’t begin to recommend you highly enough to parents of any aged child, I believe your support has given her personal confidence and a real opportunity for academic success.
Gill has been working with our son for over 2 years. Her incredibly patient teaching style and student focused approach lends itself to a wonderful learning environment where our son has been able to implement new strategies to assist him in his learning and mastering of spelling challenges. Gill is very approachable and looks at the big picture of how the challenges faced by different individuals affect them academically and also from a social perspective; by doing this she breaks it down into manageable chunks and this style has allowed our son to integrate the tutoring into his school work and make steady progress. We are very happy to recommend Gill to other students who need one to one support.
My daughter had an assessment for Dyslexia with Gill Scott and was made to feel very comfortable and at ease. She took time to talk about the assessment with me beforehand and was really thorough in gaining any background information that she needed. Gill’s explanation of her findings to us was clear and precise and every question we had she was able to answer. We never felt rushed discussing the results and throughout the whole process Gill’s help and advice was invaluable. I couldn’t recommend Gill Scott highly enough.
Our son was identified at age 6 that he had learning difficulties. He was lucky to attend a very supportive primary school that provided him with extra individual learning opportunities but as parents we were still very concerned that our son was not reaching his potential. The Primary School recommended Gill Scott from Connect2Success as a private tutor and from that day on we have seen consistent improvement in our son’s reading and writing. Gill has wonderful empathy and patience, and through this, our son’s self confidence has soared. At age 12 he is now able to see that he is an intelligent child with an exciting future, despite having dyslexia and ADHD. The best advice I can offer any parent considering hiring a tutor is DO IT NOW, the earlier the better and you couldn’t find a more professional, organized, dedicated tutor than Gill.
