Learning Support
Building confidence, engagement and success through personalised multisensory learning support.
At Flying Colours Education, we provide specialised learning support for children and young people who may need additional support, confidence or a different approach to learning.
Our programs are designed to support students academically, emotionally and socially through engaging, personalised and multisensory learning experiences.
We understand that every child learns differently and we aim to create safe, supportive and positive learning environments where children feel capable, understood, and successful.
Explore Our Learning Support Programs
What Makes Learning Support Different from Tutoring?
Tutoring often focuses on helping students complete schoolwork or improve short-term academic performance.
At Flying Colours Education, our learning support programs go beyond traditional tutoring.
Our programs are designed using evidence-based teaching practices and targeted intervention approaches that support students with learning difficulties, learning gaps, and academic challenges in a structured and meaningful way.
We use an ongoing assess → teach → reassess model to identify learning gaps, monitor progress, and adjust teaching to meet each student’s changing needs.
Our programs are carefully structured using current educational research around:
explicit instruction
multisensory learning
memory and skill consolidation
intervention group sizes
cognitive load
learning difficulties
confidence and engagement in learning
✔ Students are grouped thoughtfully based on learning needs rather than simply age or school grade, allowing teaching to remain targeted, supportive, and effective.
✔ All Flying Colours staff receive specialised training and ongoing professional development in learning difficulties, evidence-based intervention strategies, and the Flying Colours teaching approach.
✔ We believe meaningful progress happens when teaching is intentional, responsive, evidence-based, and tailored to how children learn best.
Additional Support Programs
In addition to our specialised learning support programs, we offer a range of services designed to support children and families at different stages of their learning journey.
Our Approach to Learning
our approach is grounded in how children learn and retain information best.
Fun, Engaging & Meaningful Learning
At Flying Colours Education, we place a strong emphasis on making learning engaging, hands-on and meaningful.
Our sessions are designed to be interactive and multisensory, helping children build confidence and understanding in a supportive environment where learning feels positive and achievable.
Research suggests that children are more likely to retain and recall information when learning is connected to positive emotional experiences. This is one of the reasons we incorporate games, movement, multisensory activities and engaging learning experiences into our programs.
By making learning memorable, meaningful and enjoyable, we help students remain engaged while developing important academic, social, and emotional skills.
We believe children learn best when they feel supported, actively involved and successful in their learning experiences.
Current research also highlights the importance of explicit, systematic and sequential instruction for students experiencing learning difficulties. This means new concepts are taught in a structured way, with skills carefully built upon over time.
Multi-Sensory Learning
At Flying Colours Education, multi-sensory learning is at the heart of everything we do.
Research consistently shows that children experiencing difficulties with literacy and numeracy benefit from learning experiences that engage multiple senses simultaneously. Multi-sensory learning involves using visual, auditory, kinaesthetic and tactile pathways to help children understand, practise and retain new concepts.
Rather than relying solely on listening, reading or worksheets, students are actively involved in their learning through movement, games, hands-on materials, discussion, visual supports and meaningful learning experiences.
While multi-sensory learning is particularly beneficial for students with learning difficulties such as dyslexia and dyscalculia, it is equally effective for many children who are struggling with reading, spelling, writing, comprehension or numeracy.
Learning That Lasts
At Flying Colours Education, we believe learning should be understood, retained, and built upon — not simply covered and forgotten.
As with all programs throughout the Flying Colours Curriculum, students are given ample opportunities to revisit and practise previously learned literacy and numeracy concepts to help ensure learning remains firmly embedded in their memory.
At school, learning often moves quickly and many children are expected to continue progressing through the curriculum even when important foundational skills have not yet been fully mastered. For children with learning difficulties or gaps in their understanding, this can mean they move forward without the pre-knowledge needed for future success, often leading to frustration, reduced confidence and a growing sense of falling behind.
At Flying Colours Education, we take a different approach. Through ongoing assessment, explicit teaching, review, and targeted practice, we ensure students develop genuine understanding before moving on to more complex concepts.
Our philosophy is simple:
Go as fast as you can, but as slow as you must.
This means students are supported to experience success and progress while also being given the time, practice and repetition needed to build strong foundations, lasting confidence and learning that truly lasts.
Personalised Learning Pathways
No two children learn in exactly the same way, which is why we believe learning support should never follow a “one size fits all” approach.
At Flying Colours Education, we use ongoing assessment to identify each student’s strengths, learning gaps and individual needs. This allows us to tailor learning experiences and teaching strategies that support meaningful progress at the child’s level.
Our specialist educators continually monitor progress, identify gaps in understanding and adjust programs accordingly to ensure learning remains targeted, responsive and effective.
Rather than simply grouping students by age or school grade, we carefully consider learning needs, skill development, confidence, and readiness when planning support. Our assess → teach → reassess approach allows programs to evolve alongside each child, ensuring support remains personalised as they grow and progress in their learning journey.
Evidence Based Learning Support
At Flying Colours Education, our programs are guided by current educational research and evidence-based teaching practices. From the way students are assessed and grouped, to the teaching strategies we use within sessions, every aspect of our programs is designed to support meaningful and lasting learning outcomes.
Our highly trained educators and therapists receive ongoing professional development and specialised training in learning difficulties, intervention strategies, multisensory teaching approaches and the Flying Colours learning model. We are committed to continually refining our practice to ensure we provide the most effective support possible for the children and young people we work with.
The Benefits of Small Group Learning
Many of our programs are delivered in small supportive groups, allowing students to learn alongside peers in a safe and encouraging environment.
There are many benefits for our students when learning in small groups. Research suggests enormous advantages for students’ self esteem and mental well being as well as relationship building and communication skills when working with each other in small groups. Quite often when our students see other kids are having trouble like them, their aversion to learning decreases and they are more open to accepting help.
Besides, playing games with other kids is WAY more fun than playing on your own!!!
Small group learning can support:
confidence and self-esteem
communication and social connection
motivation and engagement
emotional wellbeing
positive attitudes toward learning
We support parents too
At Flying Colours Education, we believe supporting a child means supporting the whole family. Parents are a child’s first and most important teacher, and nobody knows your child better than you do. That’s why we’re committed to working alongside families, providing guidance, support and practical advice throughout your child’s learning journey.