Early Learners (Year K – 2)
Our K-2 Foundation Courses provide a nurturing environment where young learners develop essential skills across English, Maths, General ability and Thinking skills.
Building Confidence (Year 3 – 5)
Years 3-5 play a critical role in laying the groundwork for future academic success, including NAPLAN, OC, Selective and Independent School Scholarship Exams. Our WEMT Courses offer a comprehensive curriculum that covers reading comprehension, effective writing techniques, vocabulary development, grammar, in-depth exploration of mathematical concepts, developing critical thinking and problem-solving strategies.
THINKING SKILLS
A variety of challenging problem-solving and critical thinking skills questions are covered in the course. Students build their ability to use knowledge, facts and data to find a problem and its solution. Critical thinking questions will improve their ability to reason through an argument logically and make a conclusion or to assess a situation, recognise assumptions and evaluate arguments.
WRITING
Providing most efficient skills of organising the structure of the writing. Focus on developing critical thinking and reasoning skills.
ENGLISH
Encourage constant interaction between the student and teacher when reading and answering the questions. Provide learning which focuses on reading skills and practicing reading comprehension & language convention questions.
MATHEMATICS
Essential tuition to completely understand mathematical theories, principle and formulas to solve mathematical problems. Organised materials with a variety of practical questions. Allocate groups of students with similar levels to provide a more efficient and customised learning.
The Selective Trial Test Course is designed to assist in preparing for the Selective High School Placement Test, focusing on enhancing accuracy, speed, and abilities.
Why does your child need our STTC?
The Selective Trial Test Course (STTC) will help your child to manage his/her time efficiently, minimise carelessness and overcome examination nerves. Students not only complete the tests, but difficult questions and incorrect answers are corrected and explained to the students by teachers/tutors. Students are taught how to perform to the best of their abilities.
What benefits will your child have?
- STTC helps increase students’ accuracy.
- STTC helps increase students’ speed.
- Through practising exam questions every week, students’ results and abilities can improve.
- Weekly result sheets indicate a student’s weak areas, giving immediate feedback to parents about which fields the student should concentrate on.
- Students’ performance and progress are assessed accurately on a weekly basis.
More than 4,000 selective exam-style questions are available for students under exam conditions. The most relevant and accurate types of questions are developed by our group of professionals in accordance with recent trends and feedback from teachers and our top achieving students. Annually, more than 30% of the questions are updated to ensure they appropriately support students’ preparation for the exam.
Our Special Strategies of STTC
MASTER THINKING SKILLS
Working through the practice questions and understanding why you made the mistakes using the explained answers is the best way to prepare for the thinking skills tests By familiarising the test format with a variety of questions.in the STTC, students will gain the confidence and skills to achieve excellent results in their exam. Getting the good thinking skills test mark is critical as there is no school assessment score in the thinking skill component.
ADVANCED SKILLS AND WORK
With WEMG course, STTC programs are designed to cover the whole of the Year 6 curriculum. Therefore our students attain advantage in the exam due to the fact that the actual exam is held in March and covers very difficult questions regardless of the curriculum covered at school.
MINIMISING DISADVANTAGES IN ENGLISH
Within a short period, mastering the subject of English is extremely difficult. The recent trends of the actual selective exam has been introduced longer passages in the Reading Comprehension section and more difficult types of language convention questions in the Thinking Skills. Our exam papers reflect this trend guaranteeing our students useful and relevant practise exams to develop their skills.
PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT
The STTC program is crafted to support knowledge enhancement and promote the overall development of students over the course of the year. We are inspired by the belief in the vast potential of young students. The progress of our students reflects their hard work and dedication
Opportunity Class Trial Test Course
The OC Trial Test Course helps students make real progress and build confidence for success in their OC Placement Test.
The OCTTC is designed to support students’ preparations for the Opportunity Class Placement Test. The course offers a distinctive approach by allowing students to practice exam-style questions in simulated exam conditions. While the answer sheets are being marked, teachers review the entire test paper with particular focus on difficult questions. Each question is explained thoroughly, step-by-step. Students receive their individual results at the end of the session as a record of their performance.
The OCTTC will help your child to manage his or her time efficiently, minimise errors, overcome examination nervous and perform at his or her optimum level under examination conditions.
What are the benefits to your child?
- The OCTTC helps increase accuracy and can help to minimise errors.
- The OCTTC helps increase the speed of answering questions.
- By practising exam questions every week, results and competence can steadily improve.
- Weekly result sheets indicate each student’s strengths and weaknesses, giving immediate feedback to parents about those areas on which their child should focus.
- Student performance and progress is assessed accurately on a weekly basis.
Writing Course
We provide the most effective learning programs to enhance students’ writing skills.
Our writing courses will support students’ development of technical and creative writing skills. It will cover areas including grammar, spelling and punctuation that pertain to specific text types as is required in the children’s current English Curriculum. The course will assist children to develop their narrative, descriptive, persuasive and explanatory writing skills so they can become proficient writers across all key learning areas. The aim of this course is to target students’ individual needs in writing so they can become more confident, capable and proficient writers. It will assist students with their individual performance in all written tasks in the classroom as well as formalised tests such as NAPLAN, the Selective High School Placement Test and ICAS Assessments.
Year 3 Writing
Focused Technical Skills
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Sentence Structure and Syntax
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Paragraphing
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Idea Developing
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Text Structure
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Language Use, etc.
Text Types Covered
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Descriptive & Persuasive
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Explanatory, etc.
Strong Emphasis
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To encourage students to use imagination to create original pieces of writing
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To expand and improve Vocabulary
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To write for particular purposes and audiences (which is designed to support WEMT/WEMG course)
Year 4 Writing
Focused Technical Skills
- Grammar & Punctuation
- Spelling & Creativity
Text Types Covered
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Narrative (a large part of the course)
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Descriptive & Recount
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Information Report
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Exposition & Poetry, etc.
Strong Emphasis
- To develop students’ writing skills and a love of writing by journal writing
- To construct an example of each text type by analysing exem plary examples of texts
- To write their own example of text type by independent writing (which is designed to support WEMT/WEMG course)
Year 5 Writing
Focused Technical Skills
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Time management skills
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Developing critical thinking
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Reasoning skills
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Other writing techniques.
Text Types Covered
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Mainly descriptive (other types related to actual Selective School Test)
Strong Emphasis
- To increase speed and competency to create a complete and well-organised piece of writing.
- To cover various types of writing and helps students to build up their own models for each type.
