Year 5 Holiday Programs – Apr

Develop your confidence to be a better public speaker. Topics discussed include:

• How to overcome fears associated with public speaking
• Train of thought
• Organising your Train of Thought
• Learning about your AMPS
• Public Speaking in Practice

The ability to communicate creatively and effectively through the written word is becoming crucial for Selective School and Scholarship exam success. Ensure your child has the skills needed to optimise their results in the major exams over the coming year.

Course Goals

Among the outcomes:

• Develop skills for writing effective narrative orientations
• Develop knowledge of similes and metaphors
• Develop sentence structure and paragraphing
• Develop creative and original thought
• Develop comprehensions skills across a range of text types: book and movie reviews, formal letters, information texts, biography and myth

Our Intensive Training – English, Maths & Thinking Skills (With Writing) provides the degree of academic challenge to prepare your child for Year 5 and the important exams ahead. It is the perfect course to ensure development of critical literacy, numeracy and thinking skills. Ensure your child makes a successful transition to senior primary in the new academic school year.

Course Goals

Among the outcomes:

• Develop literal and inferential comprehension skills – short answer format
• Develop an advanced lexicon
• Develop poetry interpretation skills
• Develop knowledge of literary devices, homonyms and synonyms
• Develop skim reading skills
• Develop problem solving skills
• Extend conceptual understandings of area, perimeter, volume and algebra
• Develop logical thinking and reasoning skills

The ability to think laterally is the pathway for success in high school. Students who are successful lateral thinkers and effective problem solvers have a definite advantage over their peers. This course provides the perfect opportunity to develop essential skills of success.

Course Goals

Among the outcomes:

• Develop an arsenal of problem solving tools for application in various settings
• Develop problem solving skills in relation to motion and time problems
• Develop understandings of combinations and permutations
• Develop understandings of cryptarithms and probability
• Develop skills in solving matchstick puzzles
• Develop understandings of venn diagrams and grids
• Develop logical and lateral thinking skills

Inspire your budding artist with our engaging program of art and craft. Students engage in art and craft activities designed to bring out their creativity as they experiment with shape, colour and form. All materials included.

Course Goals

Among the outcomes:

• Develop skills in the manipulation of various media
• Develop knowledge of colour theory, shadow and light
• Develop fine motor skills
• Develop artistic knowledge of shape, form and perspective
• Develop willingness to take creative risks in the execution of art works