Service Description

Phase 2: This is a 1-to-3 course. Phase 2 content. The content is DIFFERENT from the October half term course. In the Christmas holidays, we offer intensive courses which focus on the skills needed for the entrance exams into England’s top independent schools and grammar schools and offer one hour per day of teaching over a one-week period. These classes focus on English skills to provide a boost to those students who are close to taking entrance exams to their schools of choice. The skills assessed by independent schools and grammar schools are interchangeable and we believe that our course prepares students for both. We offer these courses at 13+ levels and the courses focus on a range of past papers from a large selection of top English independent schools. The questions that are studied and prepared for will always be from a past paper and this course covers the full breadth of what needs to be learnt for 13+ in a clear and concise way. Content: Students provide a Gmail account so they can use Google Doc. Students can type longer answers on the paper for ease of transfer to shared Google Doc. 1. To READ in advance of the first session – Shrewsbury School 2014 Paper Section A Comprehension - Shrewsbury School 2014 Paper Section A Focus on short and quick questions. HW: Questions 2. To READ in advance of the second session – St Edward’s Oxford 13+ 2011/2012 paper Section A Comprehension – St Edward’s Oxford 13+ 2011/2012 paper Section A Focus on longer writing questions. Discussion of longer writing questions. Quote selection, presentation and analysis. Writing a summary HW: Questions and summary 3 To READ in advance of the third session – The Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School 13+ 2016 paper Part 1 Comprehension – The Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School 13+ 2016 paper Part 1 Focus on selecting quotations, explanation and effect. HW: Questions 4. To READ in advance of the fourth session - Shrewsbury School 2014 Paper Section B Creative - Shrewsbury School 2014 Paper Section B Narrative and descriptive writing. Figurative Language HW: Story 5. To READ in advance of the fifth session - The Haberdashers’ Aske’s Boys’ School 13+ 2016 paper Part 2 Question 1 Creative Argumentative / discursive writing. Persuasive techniques and devices HW: Consolidation