Intensive Courses Year 5

Our short intensive courses and workshops take place during school holidays and half term and are usually a week long per subject.

These courses make full use of our state of the art technology and are taught in small, engaging groups, designed to refine and enhance the existing 11 plus preparation for the children that attend them. For children without specialised tutoring, these courses can provide an invaluable opportunity to be taught material they have otherwise found difficult and to learn skills for revision directly applicable to the exams they will sit. With guidance from experienced subject experts, they can consolidate their knowledge in the 11 plus syllabus and boost their performance with essential exam techniques. Overall these courses provide children with the chance to ask questions to SMEs, to build their motivation and confidence and to familiarise themselves with actual exam question styles, as well as the strategies for answering each style.

Courses Overview

Taught by SME’s
Small Groups
Timed Test

Courses Fees

Creative Writing Workshop: £500
English Comprehension Skills Workshop: £160
Maths Revision Course: £230

Creative Writing Workshop

Admission Criteria

Please be aware that children enrolling on this workshop should understand how to do the following:

Use grammar effectively – this includes understanding subject-verb agreement, verb tenses, sentence construction and word classes.
Punctuate sentences – how to use commas, full stops, capital letters and semi-colons.

Workshop Overview

This workshop aims to provide children with all of the skills they will need to create an imaginative and impressive composition. Our classes are held in small groups with both independent tasks and exciting group activities to ensure that all children remain focused. There will be homework set during the course.

The course is aimed at those sitting independent school examinations in Autumn 2024 and January 2025.

Class size are typically up to 16. There will be two tutors in the lessons at all times, both of whom are currently teaching creative writing on our Year 5 program.

Course Venue

Congress House
14 Lyon Road
Harrow
HA1 2EN

Course Features

The course will include:

Story Planning – how to develop ideas, characters and settings.
Literary Techniques – how to introduce descriptive devices and figurative language into stories.
Identifying different question styles including non-fiction such as diary entries, letter writing, articles etc, and how to respond to different styles of question.
Dialogue – how to introduce and punctuate dialogue effectively.
Vocabulary – the importance of powerful verbs and adjectives in any sentence.

Children will be taught:

Elements of a good essay
Characters
Characterisation
Dialogue
Mood and atmosphere
Voice and cohesion
Writing to persuade and argue
Formal and informal writing
Continuing an extract
Using stimulus (e.g. pictures)

Children will receive homework and handouts and there will be a timed essay included.

Course Dates

Tuesday 2nd April to Friday 5th April 2024
10:00am to 1.30pm

English Comprehension Skills Workshop

Workshop Overview

This workshop is suitable for all 11 plus English comprehension exams and will focus on comprehension practice and techniques. The focus of this course is on refining and enhancing comprehension practice and techniques, showing children the best way to approach a reading task and covering the essential skills needed to succeed in this area of their exam.

This workshop will focus on comprehension practice and techniques. There will be a timed exercise covering different genres, including a review by the tutor. Also, included in the workshop will be some technical English (punctuation and grammar) on the second day.

There are two workshops, and children may attend both workshops to be exposed to a wider range of genres.

Course Dates

English Comprehension Skills Workshop
Tuesday 9th April to Wednesday 10th April 2024
10:00am to 1.15pm

Course Venue

Congress House
14 Lyon Road
Harrow
HA1 2EN

Maths Revision Course

Workshop Overview

This course is suitable for all exam boards.

Children will have access to our online platform where they will receive homework. Access to the online system will continue after the course has finished to allow children to complete all tests that have been set for homework.

Topics for revision include:

Decimals, Fractions, Factors & Multiples, Percentages, Ratios and Proportions, Averages(Mean, Median, Mode & Range), Probability, Algebra, Coordinates, Transformations, Symmetry, 2D Shapes, 3D Shapes, Perimeter and Area, Volume, Lines Angles and Bearings.

Course Venue

Congress House
14 Lyon Road
Harrow
HA1 2EN

Admission Criteria

Important: Children must have fundamental knowledge of the following to attend:

Number & Place Values
Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication & Division
BIDMAS/BODMAS
Special Numbers (such as Odd, Even, Prime, Square, Cube, Triangular)
Number Machines

Children should feel confident in these topics in order to make the most out of the course content.

Course Dates

Maths Revision
Tuesday 2nd April to Thursday 4th April 2024
2.30pm to 6.00pm

Course Fees for 2023/24

course fees:

£160-£500_{(VAT inc)}

Booking

Please email us at 11plus@elevenplusexams.co.uk if you wish to reserve a place on any of the above courses and we will send you payment instructions and the registration form.

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