5-star rating by parents and students
Trusted by thousands of families across Australia
5-star rating by parents and students
Trusted by thousands of families across Australia
5-star rating by parents and students
Trusted by thousands of families across Australia
Your child doesn’t need more practice — they need structured guidance from teachers who understand exactly what examiners reward.
Led by Amber Fox (30+ years teaching, plus 2.5 years at UNSW Global working directly on ICAS and NAPLAN assessment development) and Helen Cassar (40+ years teaching, former Assistant Principal).
Every piece of writing in Amber’s classes is personally marked by Amber, with detailed examiner-aligned feedback. Students in Helen’s class receive feedback approved by Amber before it reaches you.
Is your child…
Is your child…
Struggling to keep up at school?
Overwhelmed by NAPLAN, ICAS, selective, or scholarship exams?
Academically gifted and ready to excel?
Master the Three Core Text Types — Narrative, Persuasive, and Informative writing form the foundation of every writing task students encounter in NAPLAN, ICAS, selective school entry, and scholarship exams. Students develop genuine craft in each, learning the specific conventions, structures, and techniques that mark out top-band performance.
Apply Skills Across Every Writing Task — once students master narrative, persuasive, and informative writing, those skills transfer directly to every related text type they will encounter. A speech draws on persuasive technique. A diary entry draws on narrative craft. A newspaper report blends informative and persuasive elements. Students don't just memorise rigid formulas; they internalise the principles that work across any writing task examiners can set them.
Co-authored with Graham Sims, our resources are written specifically for high-stakes exam preparation, drawing on years of examiner-level expertise.
100+ page Student Booklet per 10-week term — structured weekly lessons, modelled examples, vocabulary lists, and practice tasks
150+ page Parent Support Booklet — insider tips, supplementary exercises, and guidance on how to support your child's writing development at home
250+ pages of structured guidance per term, calibrated to lift both scores and confidence
This isn't generic worksheet content. Every resource is purpose-built to develop the specific skills examiners reward.
Students leave the program able to:
Plan, structure, and polish every piece of writing with confidence and control
Apply top-band techniques that examiners specifically look for and reward
Perform under exam conditions — bringing internalised skill, not just memorised rules, to high-stakes assessments
Achieve a real edge in selective entry, scholarship, NAPLAN, and ICAS
The result: writing that doesn't just meet the standard — it stands out.
Every new student begins with two diagnostic writing tasks — one narrative, one persuasive — personally marked by Amber against the NAPLAN rubric. Each assessment includes an overall score, annotated script, and two pages of detailed written feedback, providing a clear profile of current ability and a precise roadmap for development.
Each weekly two-hour class delivers explicit modelling of high-quality writing, covering structured paragraph frameworks (TEEL), persuasive devices, advanced vocabulary, grammar, and figurative language. Lessons combine modelled instruction, guided practice, and independent application so students build genuine skill, not just exposure.
Our Student of the Week award highlights exemplary work each week, celebrating writers who demonstrate craft, growth, or genuine flair. Recognition is motivating, public, and earned — and the highlighted work models excellence for the rest of the cohort.
Weekly homework consolidates classroom learning through deliberate practice, with tasks calibrated to extend each student's current writing edge. Homework is not optional busywork — it's where the week's lesson becomes embedded skill.
Every piece of writing is personally marked by Amber with rubric scoring, line-by-line annotations, and several pages of structured written commentary. Feedback identifies strongest criteria, highest-priority focus areas, technical errors, and one signature "Amber's Pro Tip" — examiner-grade insight that goes beyond standard teacher feedback.
Every Clever Fox student is met exactly where they are — and guided purposefully toward where they need to be.
Every piece of writing at Clever Fox is assessed against the official NAPLAN marking rubric, the same framework used by national examiners. This gives students — and parents — a clear, consistent understanding of exactly how writing is evaluated in high-stakes assessments, and removes the guesswork that surrounds most school-based marking.
For selective, ICAS, and scholarship exams, the broad rubric headings are publicly available, but the specific scoring criteria — what separates a top-band script from a mid-band one within each category — are not. This is where years of direct experience matters most. Amber has guided thousands of students through these exams successfully, and her feedback reflects what examiners actually look for within each category: the specific techniques, structural choices, and stylistic markers that earn top-band scores, even when the public rubric only names the broad criterion.
The result: your child isn't just told their writing is "good" or "needs improvement". They receive precise, criteria-based feedback — calibrated to the exact framework used in the exams they're preparing for, and informed by the insider understanding of how scoring actually works within each category.
Line-by-line corrections identifying every punctuation, grammar, and structural error
Detailed, rubric-aligned, examiner-informed feedback — typically two pages per piece — identifying strongest criteria, highest-priority focus areas, and clear next steps for development
$100 (inc GST), payable once at enrolment.
Not sure which class suits your child? Contact us — we will help you find the right fit.
Clever Fox students achieve results — and the confidence to match: