WHO?

Founder & Lead Educator

Bec Webb

With over 15 years of experience in the education industry, 3 years of international teaching and 5 years as a PLC leader, Bec is an enthusiastic and dedicated expert teacher. She is passionate about creating a positive and supportive learning environment, which provides every student with the opportunity to access learning at their point of need. By facilitating the development of key conceptual skills and understandings, Bec is committed to supporting students to build confidence in their abilities, develop a growth mindset and grow a love of learning.

Founder & Lead Educator

Cath Feast

Cath began her teaching career at Albert Park Primary School over 20 years ago. Across her career, she has worked in classrooms, leadership roles, and as a mentor. Cath has years of experience with curriculum planning, explicit teaching of Literacy, Mathematics and phonics, assessment and reporting and working with families to support students. Cath prides herself on being able to establish strong positive connections with students. Taking a strengths based approach she works to understand the ways in which students learn best, in order to motivate and encourage them.

What?

What is Launch?

At Launch Learning Centre, we pride ourselves on providing exceptional small group learning experiences to kindergarten and primary school-aged children. We make learning engaging with fun, hands-on and screen-free activities. We utilise evidence-based learning programs and current best-practise teaching approaches in our delivery of all small group and individual tutoring sessions. We offer a number of programs for kindergarten and primary-aged students:

Ready, Set, Launch!

A highly engaging, school-readiness program for children in kindergarten. This program focuses on the development of early Literacy and Mathematics skills, as well as important social and emotional skills which will set your child up for a successful and positive start to primary school.

Small Group Tutoring

Our targeted teaching in Literacy and Mathematics is aligned with the Victorian Curriculum and high impact teaching strategies, ensuring that our students receive the best support. Students are carefully placed according to their need rather than their grade level, which allows us to support and extend every child. With small group sizes, our experienced teachers are able to provide individualised attention, helping each student to reach their full potential.

Private Tutoring

Our individual tutoring service offers intensive support with 1:1 sessions led by qualified and experienced teachers. This program may be offered upon consultation with our lead teachers.

LAUNCH Assessments

We offer comprehensive Literacy and Mathematics assessments for kindergarten and primary school-aged children, aligned with the Victorian Curriculum. Our Literacy assessments cover phonological awareness, phonics, reading, writing and spelling. Our Mathematics assessments cover all aspects of number, including; counting, place value, addition/subtraction, multiplication/division, fractions and problem solving. Launch Assessments allow teachers to gain insight into the strategies your child is using and identify any gaps in their learning.

Why?

Why small group learning?

The statistics are compelling: approximately 2 in 5 Australian students are not meeting the Australian national proficiency standard in reading and mathematics. Of students who are behind in Grade 3, less than 20% catch up with their peers. Additionally, a concerning proportion of students in Australia, compared to overseas, begin school without foundational literacy and numeracy skills. This has significant implications for their educational outcomes and also their mental health and wellbeing. However, there is a substantial amount of research that demonstrates small group tutoring can help bridge this gap. Research shows that students who participate in small group tutoring can achieve many months additional progress over the course of a year compared to the standard expected growth.

At Launch, we are passionate about small group learning. Over many years working in schools and classrooms we have seen, time and time again, the huge benefits of working more closely with students in small groups. This type of teaching allows us to explicitly model key concepts and skills while closely monitoring student understanding. We can continually adapt our teaching in order to support or extend students based on their needs in the moment. Students' skills and confidence dramatically increase which then allows them to successfully approach tasks within the wider classroom setting and beyond. Another benefit of small group learning is it's collaborative nature, allowing students to learn with and from others. This environment fosters enjoyment and motivation for learning. We acknowledge the challenge that teachers and schools face in providing this time for all students. Inspired by this, we started Launch to provide more students with more time in this incredibly valuable small group learning environment. We are thrilled to be able to offer this opportunity to so many young minds!

Read more research about the benefits of small group teaching for kindergarten and primary school children :

Grattan Institute

Australian Education Research Organisation

Australian Council for Educational Research