Intensive Plus English, Mathematics & General Ability
Provide your child with an appropriate academic challenge through our Intensive Plus English, Mathematics & General Ability course. More advanced than the Progressive workshop completed during the January Holiday Program, this is the perfect course to continue the development of critical skills in preparation for the demands of exam preparations and Year 4. Ensure your child develops the skills and knowledge vital to making a successful academic school year.
Course Goals
Among the outcomes:
- Develop multiple choice exam techniques
- Develop creative writing skills – narrative text type
- Develop literal and inferential comprehension skills – cloze and short answer formats
- Develop an advanced lexicon
- Develop the skills of interpreting maps and weather reports
- Extend knowledge of exam hints and tips
- Extend knowledge of interpreting cube structures and advanced visual discrimination
- Develop logic, problem solving and puzzle solving skills
- Develop mathematical reasoning skills
Effective Grammar & Creative Writing
A comprehensive course of grammar, sentence structure and writing to ensure your child is well equipped for the demands of the English curriculum for the school year.
Course Goals
Among the outcomes:
- Develop advanced understandings of nouns – common, proper, collective and abstract
- Develop advanced understandings of adjectives, adverbs, pronouns and verbs
- Develop punctuation and advanced grammar
- Develop knowledge of prepositions, articles, superlatives and comparisons
- Develop writing skills in the text types of book review, descriptions, directions, narrative and poetry
