Meet your HSC English specialist
Over 15 years guiding students to top HSC results
Great English results don't come from memorising essays. They come from learning how to think, read deeply, and write with purpose. That's the philosophy behind everything at The Reading Fox.
The Reading Fox was founded by Fifi, an accredited secondary English teacher, prize-winning academic, and one of the most credentialed HSC English specialists in Sydney.
From the very start, Fifi was recognised as a NSW Department of Education Targeted Graduate, a distinction awarded to the highest-performing teaching graduates in Australia, assessed across academic results and practicum performance. Over 15 years, she has taught across government, Catholic, and independent schools in NSW, and has served as a NAPLAN writing marker and HSC-level marker across multiple years.
That depth of experience shapes everything at The Reading Fox. Having taught across almost every prescribed text through three successive syllabus changes in English EAL/D, Standard, Advanced, and Extensions I and II, Fifi knows how English is assessed from the inside. That knowledge is built into every program, every resource, and every teacher at The Reading Fox.
Fifi holds a Master in Teaching from the University of Sydney, a Bachelor of Arts majoring in English Literature and Children's Literature from Deakin University, and degrees in Commerce and Economics from UNSW. At Deakin, she was awarded the Alfred Deakin Medal, recognising exceptional academic achievement and contribution to the university community. The medal is the university's highest honour, awarded to the top student across the entire Faculty of Arts and Education, a cohort of over 15,000.
Her students have achieved Band 6 results and state rankings across some of Sydney's most competitive schools. But the results she values most are the ones that don't fit on a leaderboard: the students who went from counting down the minutes to losing track of time.
English was never meant to be studied alone. The Reading Fox pairs weekly small-group classes with fortnightly one-on-one sessions because the best English learning needs both. The group is where the subject comes alive; it's where students challenge each other, rethink their assumptions, and arrive at ideas they might not have reached alone. The one-on-ones are where the fine-tuning happens: targeted feedback on their writing, their weak spots, their specific texts. Every class is structured, expert-led, and small enough that no one gets left behind.
Liam works alongside Fifi in selected classes at The Reading Fox, bringing a thoughtful and highly structured approach to senior English.
Having trained closely with Fifi over many years, Liam teaches from the same method that shapes every Reading Fox lesson: close reading, clear thinking, and writing that is purposeful and genuinely responsive to the question. He is especially focused on helping students organise their ideas and turn observations into strong arguments.
Liam holds a Bachelor of Arts from the Australian National University and a Graduate Diploma in Writing and Literature with Distinction. Alongside his literary and writing background, Liam brings years of experience in technology and communication, where logic and clarity really matter. This gives his teaching a practical edge that is often appreciated by capable students who find English difficult to structure on the page.
At The Reading Fox, Liam supports students within the same carefully designed programme and teaching standards set by Fifi. His classes follow the same emphasis on textual depth, individual feedback and steady improvement over time.
Every teacher at The Reading Fox is personally selected and trained by Fifi, and held to the same standard she sets in her own classroom.
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