Holiday Programmes
Looking for a holiday activity that your children will love, while expanding their knowledge? Join us at I Can Read for a range of 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. Check with your local centre for programmes, dates and fees.
SPEECH & DRAMA
FOR 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.
WRITE WELL
FOR CHILDREN 8 TO 12 YEARS
This is a programme 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 their own work.
I CAN READ PRELIMINARY
FOR CHILDREN 4 TO 5 YEARS
Ensure your child is fully prepared and ready to start kindergarten with confidence.
The I Can Read Preliminary Reading Programme is designed to develop both expressive and receptive vocabulary as well as essential pre-reading skills necessary to learn 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.
PUBLIC SPEAKING
FOR CHILDREN 8 TO 12 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.
SHAKESPEARE
“AS YOU LIKE IT”
FOR CHILDREN 8 TO 12 YEARS
This programme is designed to be quite interactive, using a combination of books and online tools, as well as media 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 for any of these holiday programmes, complete the enquiry form below, email headoffice@icanreadsystem.com or call Head Office on 1800 577 135 for programmes, dates and fees.
REGISTRATION
Spread over five days per week for 2 hours per day, each programme (except I Can Read Preliminary) consists of 10 hours in total.
