Our past & present students
Trajectory had 28 students in 2024, from Year 3 up to Year 13.
In 2025, we're on track to be a part of the learning journey of over 150 students.
Here are four of our 2024 students of varying levels, both former and current, who agreed to allow us to showcase their achievements here (some preferred us to use a faux image).
Leila
Year 9, Mathematics
Christchurch Girls' High School
Leila is a student with plenty of natural ability, but was finding it difficult to showcase her strengths come assessment time. This meant she was getting poor results and, when her parents approached us, Leila had unfortunately been placed in the non-extension Maths class for Year 9. She was way above her class level, which meant she was utterly bored in class and struggling to stay engaged. Frustratingly for her, her abilities were still not translating into good results.
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For Leila, our main goals were:
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to extend her beyond the Year 9 curriculum so that she is developing skills that give her an advantage over her peers, come NCEA; and
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to improve her performance in time-based assessments, namely by reviewing how she constructs and articulates her working, and helping her overcome mental blocks.
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Leila made great progress. Following her end-of-year exam last year where she scored an incredible 94%, we received the fantastic news that she had been moved up to extension Maths for Year 10. We’re looking forward to making more progress together in 2025.
Leila received weekly tuition throughout term 3 and 4, 2024 from Trajectory, and additional tuition on the leadup to exams.
Noah
Year 11, Mathematics
Lincoln High School
Noah came to us as he had found himself falling way behind his peers in both Math & English. He had ambitions of taking on Calculus in Year 12 but he'd missed some key pieces of content throughout the year.
The way that Noah’s school was teaching wasn't working well for Noah. Their class sizes were large and the teacher struggled to control them. Unsurprisingly, there was a lack of personal attention given to Noah’s SLD (Dyslexia and ADHD).
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By virtue of all this, Noah was beginning to fall behind peers. There was a lot of ground to cover by the end of the year. To improve Noah's engagement, we tied his interests (computer programming, coding) into the content. From here, his fascination in Algebra began to take off.
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After showing a lot of grit and growth this year, Noah managed to make it into Year 12 Calculus. We’re looking forward to continuing our work together.
Noah received weekly tuition from Trajectory throughout all of 2024.
Bryson
Years 12-13, Economics, Maths and English
Christchurch Boys' High School
Bryson was looking for subject support across all of his NCEA subjects, with a view to setting himself up well for university scholarship applications.
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Bryson was a student who had a good grasp of the conceptual side of class content, but struggled to organise his thoughts in a harmonious way. His grades were good, but he wasn't breaking into the 'Excellence' range as often as he liked.
He also struggled with low motivation toward his classwork generally. He didn't have a great relationship with his teachers.
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Over time Bryson’s understanding of content and performance in assessments improved. We created some systems to help him keep track of his credits and prepare for his assessments well before they fell due.
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He started to gain recognition for his academic abilities at his school, Christchurch Boys’ High School. He won an Academic Scholar award in Year 12 and then was awarded the prestigious Blue Scholar award in Year 13.
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Bryson is now studying Financial Engineering in the University of Otago, where he won a scholarship to study.
Bryson received weekly tuition throughout all of 2023 and 2024 from us, and additional assistance with scholarship application preparation.
Isabella
Year 5, Literacy and Numeracy
Papanui Primary School
Isabella's teacher identified Isabella as someone who might benefit from tutoring, after observing that Isabella had a different learning style to other students. Isabella is dyslexic and comes up with rather creative and outside-the-box methods for solving problems, rather than going down the conventional route.
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In tutorials together, our goal is to encourage & grow her unique problem-solving approach, while also still making sure that she's grasping the concepts underlying the Year 5 curriculum.
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Isabella’s parents did try other tutors, including online tutors, before us. Isabella has a rather animated personality and needs prompting to stay focused, which is part of the reason why her previous online tutoring fell flat.
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Since getting tuition, Isabella has been able to articulate and communicate her thinking in a way that’s understandable to the teacher and her parents.
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At the end of 2024 we received the great news that Isabella was accepted into Rangi Ruru Girls’ School for intermediate, where she'll attend in 2026.