Sharyn has a Bachelor of Education and Diploma in Teaching from Ku-ring-gai College of Advanced Education (now UTS) and began her teaching in schools in Sydney’s outer west, including Rydalmere East and Auburn North Public Schools.

At the same time she began tutoring from her home and was soon inundated with parents’ requests for help with students who had difficulties that were not being catered for within their own school. From there NEC grew into the busy Centre that it is today, but Sharyn has ensured that the unique caring and individual nature of her business prevails. For over 30 years she has attended countless training seminars, meetings and conferences on the topics of Teaching and Learning, ADHD, Anxiety and the full range of Learning difficulties, and has a wealth of knowledge and experience in these areas.

Sharyn has always had a natural rapport with children of all ages and a passion to assist and motivate them. She believes that given the correct opportunity, every child can reach their potential and can also feel good about themselves.

Sharyn loves sports of all types, particularly paddling in which she still competes. She enjoys spending time with her family and friends and is more likely to be found running around in the sunshine, than indoors. Her dream is to both make a difference to the world and to see more of it!

Angela has a Bachelor of Arts and a Higher Diploma in Education from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg. She has taught in both primary and high schools in South Africa, England and Australia. For the past few years, she has also worked at Newport Education Centre as an English tutor to children from Years 2-12.

Angela loves tutoring because of the opportunity it affords to make a positive difference in young people’s lives. She is passionate about encouraging young people to do their best and to help them to tackle seemingly difficult challenges. The satisfaction of seeing her students building their confidence in their writing and critical analysis of texts is very rewarding. Most of all, Angela enjoys the relationship of support and collaboration that develops between a student and their tutor over time.

Angela enjoys road-running, which is made even more special by the beauty of the northern beaches. She also loves the outdoors, spending quality time with friends, making music with a band, exploring new places, cooking creatively and eating out.

Julianne has a Diploma in Teaching (Humanities) from Sydney University and has taught in primary and high schools for over 15 years. Julianne is a founder of, and then became an educational consultant in schools for Allergy and Anaphylaxis Australia. Presently she is OOSH (Out of School Hours) Executive Educator in the National Quality Framework (NQF) for first aid, asthma and anaphylaxis. She has combined these roles with teaching at Newport Education Centre for the past 15 years. This diversity of commitments has helped Julianne to understand both the many individual needs of her students and the stresses on families today.

Julianne loves to work with students with specific needs, particularly those who struggle academically or are low in confidence. She knows how to put them at ease and step them through the learning process, using individual methods to increase their skills and self-esteem. She has a passion to ensure each student enjoys their learning and has fun in their session at NEC.

In her spare time Julianne enjoys spending time with her family (including her 2 wild cats) and loves to garden and use her creativity. She plays tennis regularly, and can often be seen walking the local headlands and swimming at the beach.

Bridget has a Bachelor of Arts / Diploma in Education from the University of New South Wales. As a secondary English teacher she has taught all secondary year classes and across a wide range of ability groupings for many years. During a successful and enjoyable teaching career, Bridget has also undertaken leadership roles such as English Coordinator, Curriculum Coordinator and Senior H.S.C. Marker.

As a tutor and passionate English educator, Bridget’s major focus is on supporting H.S.C. students across all English courses, and guiding them to maximise their results.
Tutoring enhances student learning and allows Bridget to cater for a variety of individual learning styles. Building a trusted professional rapport with each student provides her with rich personal rewards. Improving students’ learning outcomes is a tangible result in the positive educational environment at Newport Education Centre.

Bridget's interests include book club, grandchildren, cross-stitch, walking, film and theatre.

As a student completing his final year high school examinations, Ivan was one of a few students across the state who was awarded a full-time paid Telstra cadetship to study the Bachelor of (Electrical) Engineering at the University of NSW. Thereafter, Ivan worked as an engineer for many years before deciding to re-engage in his high school passion of mathematics by tutoring high school students.

He subsequently completed a graduate Diploma in Education from UTS Sydney to qualify as a high school mathematics teacher. He taught mature students at the North Sydney TAFE for several years before being appointed as Head Mathematics teacher at Meridian International High School in Sydney. In more recent years, he has taught both full time and casually at Manly Selective Campus, as a casual teacher at several other high schools on the North Shore and at Newport Education Centre as a tutor. With a wealth of experience in teaching and tutoring at all levels of Mathematics, incorporating the use of modern technology, Ivan has gained valuable insight into the aspects of the mathematics course that can trouble students and how to quickly resolve vexing issues.

In his spare time, Ivan enjoys swimming, music and is particularly obsessed with the game of chess, playing regularly in tournaments. Ivan has a very clever mini poodle companion named Cody that he takes for daily walks. In return, Cody tutors Ivan on the finer skills of chess playing.

Peter has a degree in Applied Physics (BSc.) and a Post-Graduate Diploma in Computer Science from Deakin University (Australia) and has worked extensively in the international space industry (Europe & USA) developing, launching and operating billion-dollar satellite communications systems. This included the development of the first systems for Europe, Australia and global systems such as Inmarsat.

He has greatly enjoyed tutoring physics at university, guest lecturing, presenting research papers, training satellite operations staff and providing high level consultancy support. His unique career provides an opportunity to mentor students on the value and application of mathematics and physics in the real world. Semi-retirement has included tutoring high school and university students with the goal of inspiring students to appreciate these subjects and to hopefully pursue careers in these disciplines. To aid the latter, Peter also undertook post graduate degree studies in Education at Macquarie University.

In his free time Peter enjoys keeping up with the latest advances in the space industry, photography, amateur astronomy and sports. Peter has enjoyed long-distance running and surfing and has been a keen tennis player.

Julie grew up in the Hunter Valley, receiving her Teachers’ Certificate from Newcastle Teachers College and then teaching at various schools in the area. She and her husband raised their family on the Northern Beaches where she taught in both public and private schools. During that time, she received her Diploma in Teaching from ACU at Strathfield and continued further study at the University of New England.

Julie who is now an active and involved grandmother, enjoys working with children, especially those of primary school age. She is patient and has a positive attitude, believing that all children can learn when given systematic instruction specific to their learning needs. Julie is passionate about seeing the progress children make through education, and about developing a love for learning in young lives. Tutoring one-on- one gives the opportunity for this to occur. Julie has a great love of reading and is a strong believer in the value of reading to and with children.

In her leisure time, Julie enjoys cooking, gardening, walking her “grand dogs” and reading books of various genres.

Linda has a Diploma of Teaching from The Guild Centre, Sydney, C.A.E. and a Bachelor of Education from Sydney University. As a teacher, she has worked in many areas of Sydney such as Lakemba, Woollahra, Collaroy, Bondi and others, and has especially enjoyed working with students from K-6. With over 30 years of tutoring experience, Linda’s expertise and passion is evident, as she uses many varied strategies to motivate and teach her students. Linda has supported struggling students as well as those needing extension work and those applying for Year 7 scholarships. She is aware that every student is an individual with their own learning style, strengths and weaknesses. During her years as a classroom teacher, Linda has successfully taught children with learning disabilities, ADD, ADHD, ODD and students on the Autism spectrum. She loves tutoring as she feels that so much more can be achieved with a personalized learning program and individual attention.

In her free time, Linda enjoys reading, watching movies, going to the theatre to see musicals, pilates, yoga, playing tennis, swimming, being at the beach and taking her naughty dog, Ollie, for long walks.

Rodney has a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering (UNSW), a Master of Engineering Science (Electrical Engineering) with a major in Digital Communications (UNSW), a Master of Applied Finance (Macquarie), and a Postgraduate diploma in Biomedical Engineering (UNSW). Rodney has worked extensively across the IT & Telecommunications sector in diverse roles in engineering, product development and corporate strategy areas, for companies such as Hewlett Packard, British Telecom and Telstra.

After a lengthy career focussed on technology and developing innovative solutions, Rodney felt a desire to utilise his skills and experiences to impart some of his expertise to the younger generation. So he made a career change to education and is currently completing a Master of Teaching in Mathematics, Science/Physics and HSIE, and has taught these subjects in various private and public schools in fulltime and casual roles. Rodney enjoys the challenge of teaching and finds it intensely satisfying to discover ways of engaging students in his subjects so that they can learn in their own way, develop skills and confidence in their own abilities, and develop their own life-time passion for these subjects. Tutoring provides an enormous opportunity to build teaching relationships with a diverse range of students at different stages of learning, and support them on a positive path towards achieving their goals.

Rodney likes to relax by enjoying an ocean swim, reading a book from his sprawling collection, or taking his overly energetic Husky-Malamute for long walks.

Sally majored in English at the University of Sydney and then completed a post graduate Dip Ed.

She embraced the considerable challenge of a teaching load of all Senior English classes in her first few years in the profession, then went on to implement the first HSC Extension English class at that particular school.

Sally has more recently been interested in pursuing a career in counselling, commencing a Master of Counselling in 2018, which had to later be abandoned due to family concerns.
She is passionate about enabling students to make the connection between language and its message and helping them to understand how the manipulation of language affects meaning. She is committed to enabling students to develop their own sufficient mastery of language and appreciation of the skills of the masters of English to make them powerful, sophisticated and, ultimately, exceptionally effective communicators.

Most of all, Sally enjoys skiing with family and friends when pandemics and international travel allow.

Peter has a Master of Teaching in Secondary Education (Mathematics) from the University of Technology Sydney and a Bachelor of Engineering (Mechanical) with Honours from the University of Melbourne.
Peter had a long engineering and executive career in the international oil and gas industry before deciding to become a mathematics teacher. He has been working in Northern Beaches schools, having returned from teaching in Aberdeen Scotland.

Peter decided to take up his mathematics teaching career because he always loved maths at school and applying it in his engineering career. He also really enjoyed the people management side of his executive career, observing how people developed and how individuals and groups responded to changing environments. Teaching is an obvious way of applying his interest in mathematics and people development. Peter is a strong supporter of growth mindset principles.

Peter enjoys golf, bridge, reading and classical music.

Aidan completed his Higher School Certificate (HSC) in 2021, obtaining top bands in HSC courses Mathematics Extension 1 and Mathematics Extension 2. Having achieved a 90+ ATAR, he is continuing his studies through a double degree in Actuarial Studies and Advanced Science (Advanced Mathematics) from the University of New South Wales. He is passionate about calculus, and applications of mathematics to determine risk and address questions of financial contexts.

Aidan enjoys tutoring and believes that every student needs to discover at least one subject within the school curriculum that is special to them. He wishes to guide students into discovering a passion for the intricate yet beautiful subject that is Mathematics, and to provide students with a greater understanding through each lesson.
In his spare time, Aidan enjoys listening to music, spending time with family, martial arts training and learning other disciplines such as computer programming.

Shaan is a dedicated and experienced maths tutor who is passionate about helping students achieve their academic goals. Having completed high school recently with excellent results in Extension 2 and Advanced Maths, Shaan has developed a deep understanding and mastery of the subject. He is currently studying Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS).

Shaan tutored at his previous high school and has gained valuable experience in working with young people of different ages and levels. He aims to make what seems complex, simple for his students. He has a patient and encouraging approach, which allows him to connect with them and help them to build confidence in their maths skills.

As a tutor, Shaan believes that maths is an essential skill that can unlock many opportunities for students in the future. His goal is to help those he tutors not only improve their grades but also develop a love for the subject.

In his free time, Shaan is a cricket enthusiast and enjoys staying fit by going to the gym and engaging in any fitness-related activities. He believes that a healthy mind and body are essential for success in academics and all facets of life.

Ben has a Bachelor of Education from the University of Sydney and is now studying for an Executive Masters in Strategic Communications (MStratComm) at UTS. Having taught English for four years locally, he went on to hold senior management roles in educational publishing with Macmillan and ACER. Ben currently works in medical publishing.
Ben joined NEC because he believes it takes a community of school staff, family and experienced mentors to help most students reach their potential. As the world becomes more complex, students need a calm space to unpack busy curricula, navigate assessment tasks and plot a simple pathway through each Term. He enjoys helping students do just this.
A writing hobbyist, Ben is currently dabbling in historical crime fiction. He enjoys any kind of fishing experience and the gentle art of catching giant beach worms.

David has a Diploma of Teaching in English and History, and a Graduate Diploma in Teacher Librarianship. He has taught English and History in New South Wales high schools since 1975 and retired in 2019.
David hopes that he can now work with individual students to improve their skills in English and, in doing so, build confidence in their ability to communicate. His strengths in this pursuit come from many years in classrooms.
In his spare time, David loves to be at the beach, keeps himself fit through his enjoyment of swimming, and also finds pleasure in singing and listening to music of various kinds.