HOLIDAY PROGRAMMES

Looking for a holiday activity that your children will love, while expanding their knowledge?

Join us at I Can Read for three exceptional holiday programmes!

It’s always a challenge to find activities for your children in the holidays – especially activities that both children and parents will love. Our I Can Read holiday programmes are a fantastic, enjoyable way to engage your child in literacy and speech-based activities that will instil a love of literacy for life.

So that we may dedicate attention to students, ensuring they gain the most from their holiday experience, our places are limited, so please reserve your place early.

Programmes run 2 hours per day for 1 week, commencing 12th April 2021 and 16th April 2021.

Morning or afternoon sessions available.

SPEECH & DRAMA PROGRAMME

2 hours per day over 5 days

Programme aimed at children 5 to 7 years

As well as being great fun, speech and drama lessons are really important for your child. The average person communicates 80% of the time through speaking and listening, compared to around 20% through reading and writing. Building confidence in speech and drama will help your child acquire communication skills that will last a lifetime.

Speech and drama activities facilitate your child’s learning process by motivating him or her to think, listen and speak clearly by participating in activities such as riddles, tongue twisters, role play, mime, games, voice projection, speech exercises, stories and script-writing.

Speech and drama lessons are designed to:

·      build confidence through practise of oral expressive skills and communicating freely in a social setting;

·      model conventional and grammatically correct speech patterns;

·      ensure clarity of articulation;

·      encourage use of language and bodily expressive techniques as tools for communication;

·      introduce students to script writing and performing their own work.

To register your interest and check availability, complete the enquiry form below, email headoffice@icanreadsystem.com or call Amanda on 02 9747 6653

PUBLIC SPEAKING PROGRAMME

2 hours per day over 5 days

Programme aimed at children 8 to 13 years

Few of us in life are natural public speakers, but we believe it is a skill that can be learned. Once your children learn this skill, they will feel confident to speak well under any set of circumstances and with short notice because they will be able to apply the markers to suit each circumstance.

To register your interest and check availability, complete the enquiry form below, email headoffice@icanreadsystem.com or call Amanda on 02 9747 6653

WRITE WELL PROGRAMME

2 hours per day over 5 days

Programme aimed at children 8 to 13 years

This is a course your children will really enjoy, while addressing all the essential skills they need to write coherently and in grammatically acceptable ways for their school work and projects. Gaining the confidence to write well is a skill that will enhance your child’s ability to communicate effectively on paper, transforming their thoughts and ideas into the written word, and will help them find joy in writing.

To register your interest and check availability, complete the enquiry form below, email headoffice@icanreadsystem.com or call Amanda on 02 9747 6653

SHAKESPEARE, As You Like It PROGRAMME

2 hours per day over 5 days

Programme aimed at children 8 to 13 years

This course is designed to be quite interactive, using a combination of books and online tools, as well as channels your children will be familiar with, such as YouTube. This basic introduction to the wonderful world of Shakespeare and his timeless plays will be both fun and interesting, and we hope will be the start of a lifelong love for the work of this iconic playwright.

To register your interest and check availability, complete the enquiry form below, email headoffice@icanreadsystem.com or call Amanda on 02 9747 6653

CREATIVE WRITING PROGRAMME

2 hours per day over 5 days

Programme aimed at children 8 to 13 years

FOR FLEDGLING WRITERS

This course will first of all encourage the shy child to put pen to paper. It follows a structured outline, covering how to generate ideas, how to develop ideas, how to express ideas in creative ways, and how to write them in a composition.

FOR CONFIDENT WRITERS

For the confident writer, the course will channel his or her abilities into more fluent and creative written expression.

All children will learn the fundamentals of what makes a good story while attending to grammar, syntax, and tense. Setting, theme, characterization, plot and metaphor will be built into story construction. The course is practical and each child must bring an exercise book and pencils and pens. Maximum 4 students per class. 

To register your interest and check availability, complete the enquiry form below, email headoffice@icanreadsystem.com or call Amanda on 02 9747 6653

I CAN READ – PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

1.5 hours per day over 5 days

Programme aimed at children 4 to 5 years

Ensure your child is fully prepared and ready to start Kindergarten with gusto. The I Can Read Preliminary Reading Programme is designed to develop both expressive and receptive vocabulary as well as essential pre-reading skills necessary before learning to read. This programme establishes the child’s phonological abilities, letter formation and the use of phonics in decoding.

It is important your child has the early communication skills needed when starting school, is able to communicate in full sentences and has some reading ability. It’s important because a child who is behind when starting school may find it difficult to catch up. Please don’t wait; the gap just widens! Maximum 4 students per class. 

To register your interest and check availability, complete the enquiry form below, email headoffice@icanreadsystem.com or call Amanda on 02 9747 6653