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 1 and 2, Fifi knows how English is assessed from the inside. That knowledge is built into every programme, every resource, and every teacher at The Reading Fox.
The Alfred Deakin 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.
Fifi holds a Master of 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.
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. 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.
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