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Come to Hootbrook.Where your child gets a little braver, ten minutes at a time.

Calm, adaptive OC, Selective and NAPLAN practice for Australian kids aged 5–12.

See where your child stands — free20 questions · about 10 minutes · no card
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Have a go — I’ll walk you through it.
22,000+questions across a mapped curriculum
400+concepts across 12 subject areas
Separateplacement per subject, not one grade
Ages 5–12OC / Selective / NAPLAN
For the parent at 9pm

Test prep in Australia usually means one of three things: drilling until somebody cries, a tutor by the hour, or an app that shouts. Hootbrook is the fourth thing — a quiet place your child actually wants to visit, built by people who think ten good minutes beat sixty miserable ones.

How it works

A walk through Hootbrook.

Three things happen, in this order. Nothing else is asked of you.

1

They find their place.

Your map of HootbrookStart here
Every child starts where they actually are — not at page one.
2

Ten calm minutes a day.

Maths MeadowWhat is the next term?1, 4, 9, 16, 25, __A36B34C49D30
The engine picks tonight’s questions: practice, review, one stretch.
3

You see everything. They see a village.

PARENT VIEW33concepts proficient4sessions47minutesSequences came up threetimes and she was quickereach time.CHILD VIEW
Numbers for you. Never for them.

Frames are drawn for this page — the real screens use the same layout and the same rule.

We show our working

We can’t show you awards yet. We can show you our working.

Four checks stand between a question being written and a child ever seeing it. Every one of them runs on the whole bank, every time.

Two independent solvers must agree on every answer — questions they disagree on are pulled, not patched.

Every wrong option has a written reason a child might pick it.

Every count on this page comes from our validator, not our marketing.

When a defect class is found once, a machine gate hunts it bank-wide forever.

Show one — the paper trail behind a single question
The question

What is the next number in this sequence? 3, 6, 12, 24, 48, __
A. 96 · B. 84 · C. 72 · D. 100

Solver one — blind solve
48 × 2 = 96, doubling each term — agree
Solver two — independent, different model
3 → 6 → 12 → 24 → 48, ratio 2 each step, next 96 — agree
Adjudication

Two solvers, one answer, no disagreement to adjudicate. Key held at A 96.

Every wrong option, with its reason
B84: added 36 — no clear rule.
C72: added 24 instead of doubling 48.
D100: rounded incorrectly.
Gate verdictVerified — cleared for children

trust-01a dual-solve (claude blind-solve + qwen3:14b), adjudicated
Reviewed 6 August 2026. Status recorded in the bank as verified, alongside the explanation a child is shown: “Each term is doubled: 3×2=6, 6×2=12, 12×2=24, 24×2=48, 48×2=96.

This trail exists for every one of the 22,000+ questions. It is the same record the validator reads, not a marketing summary of it.

Hootbrook is new. There are no fake five-star walls here and no “#1” badges — when we publish results, they’ll arrive with the methodology attached, and we’ll state the method before we collect the data.

Inside the village

Three moments, built on purpose.

A product is remembered for the two or three things people retell. These are ours.

The stamp thunk

Mastery lands as a passport stamp — pressed, not popped. No confetti, no fanfare, no sound you would turn off. Children collect them the way you collected them in a real passport.

The First Sentence

“The owl sat on the gate.”

Ava · 14 August 2026

The First Sentence

The first sentence a child reads in Hootbrook becomes a dated keepsake certificate. It goes on the fridge, and the fridge does the marketing.

The quiet goodbye

At the daily cap, dusk falls on the map and the windows light up. “The village lights are coming on. See you tomorrow.” Wellbeing drawn into the world, not buried in a setting.

Hootbrook ends the session while it’s still fun. On purpose.

For parents

The honest dashboard.

You’ll know where they stand long before test day.

  • Separate placement per subject — not one blunt grade for the whole child.
  • Every number comes from your child’s actual answers, and you can see which ones.
  • One honest line each week. Never “your child is behind” — that sentence helps nobody.
Ava · Year 4 · this week4sessions38questions answered47minutesCONCEPTS PROFICIENTMathematical Reasoning12 of 34Verbal Reasoning9 of 26Reading & Language7 of 31Sequences came up three times this week and she was quicker each time.Fractions are new — she’ll see them again on Tuesday.

Sample parent view, drawn for this page. Numbers shown are one child’s example week, not an average or a result claim.

Pricing

One price. On this page.

You should not have to book a call, start a trial or hand over a card to find out what something costs. So here it is, in full, with the guarantee sitting next to the button rather than three clicks away in a policy.

One plan covers every child in your household, every subject and every mode — OC, Selective and NAPLAN. Nothing is held back for a higher tier, because there isn’t one.

No tiers. No decoys. No crossed-out anchor price, and no sales — ever. A permanent sale is just a disguised price, and a stale one tells you nobody is minding the shop.

$199 a year.

The whole household.

That’s 55¢ a day, every child included.

$199 buys practice, progress and the village. There is nothing else to buy.

  • Every child in the household, on one plan
  • 22,000+ questions across 400+ concepts
  • OC, Selective and NAPLAN, all included
  • The map, the stamps and the parent dashboard
  • No ads, no in-app purchases, no upsells
Start free — see where your child stands30 days, full refund, one email. No forms, no phone call.Stripe · Apple Pay · Google Pay

Prices in Australian dollars, GST included. Renews yearly at $199 until you cancel; cancel any time from your account.

Before you decide

Questions, answered plainly.

Which ages and tests does Hootbrook cover?

Ages 5 to 12. Opportunity Class and Selective preparation, plus NAPLAN practice for the primary years. Behind the village sits one mapped curriculum — 400+ concepts and 22,000+ questions — so a child moves through it in the order the concepts actually build on each other, rather than in the order a workbook happens to print them.

Is it safe? What happens to our data?

Rest easy: no ads, no in-app purchases, nothing sold to third parties.

There is no chat, no public leaderboard of real names, and nothing a stranger can send your child. The parent account holds the record; the child account holds the map.

The full detail, including the one advertising measurement tool we run on these public marketing pages and never inside the learning app, is in our privacy policy.

How do refunds work?

30 days, full refund, one email. No forms, no phone call, and no question about why. After 30 days you can cancel any time and keep your access until the year you have already paid for runs out.

Nothing here removes your rights under Australian Consumer Law. The full terms are in our refund policy.

How is this different from tutoring?

A tutor gives your child an hour of someone else’s full attention, once a week, and a verbal report at the door. Hootbrook gives them ten minutes of exactly the right practice most days, and gives you the written record of what actually happened.

It is not a replacement for a good teacher. It is what happens on the nights in between.

Ten minutes seems short. Is that really enough?

The cap is the feature. Hootbrook ends the session while it is still fun, on purpose — dusk falls on the map, the windows light up, and the village closes for the night.

Short and daily beats long and dreaded. It also protects the only thing that really matters at this age: that your child still wants to come back tomorrow.

The village is open.

In ten minutes, you’ll know where your child stands.

See where your child stands — free20 questions · about 10 minutes · no card