Presentation Skills Tigers

Speeches are a powerful way to communicate with audiences. They can be used for many purposes – such as informing and entertaining people – but most commonly, you want to get up on stage and present something so your audience will think or act differently than before. This is what it means to persuade someone.

Over the July school holidays, our Lions workshop places the focus squarely on these types of persuasive speeches. While students may have already covered basic persuasive speech structure in our Tabby Cats workshop, the focus of the Lions program takes this type of speech to the next level.

Students learn how they can use various techniques – from chain words to opinion phrases – to help make their speeches sound much more persuasive. Students also have plenty of opportunities to apply these techniques across a range of different types of persuasive speeches, with a particular focus on elections!

Our Presentation Skills Tigers workshop is a mixed-experience program.

There are three groups of students who would benefit from undertaking the Presentation Skills Tigers program:

1. those who have previous formal coaching in public speaking – this may be from one of our programs (including our Tabby Cats holiday program, or our Leopards or Lions weekly term programs), from another provider or potentially through their school;
2. anyone who is trying out public speaking for the first time, is already reasonably confident and is unable to attend the Presentation Skills Tabby Cats workshop; or
3. students who have previously completed the Tigers workshop who are interested in developing their speaking skills even further – given the program changes from holiday to holiday, students are more than welcome (and even encouraged) to try it again and again.

If you’re not sure whether your child fits into any of these categories, please get in touch and we can chat about your circumstances!

Alternatively, please check out our video below to see how our holiday workshops function!

After completing the Persuading Audiences workshop, students should:

• have been exposed to the fundamental principles that underpin persuasive speeches;
• understand a range of new techniques to help them sound and feel more persuasive when giving a presentation; and
• have been given multiple opportunities to present to their class in each and every session.

Fundamental Concepts

The program starts with a succinct (but necessary) revision of the essential concepts covered in our introductory-level programs, including audience engagement and speech structure. This helps set students up for the rest of the program and ensures that everyone starts on a similar level, even if they’ve not undertaken an SSA program before.

Persuasive Techniques

There are hundreds of techniques available that can be used to persuade one’s audience – in this program, students will have a closer look at a handful of these, aiming to ensure that they are able to apply them in a range of different circumstances.

Election Speeches

Whether it is the School Representative Council or the Prime Minister, the fundamentals of running a good campaign remain the same. Students will consider various important elements on campaigning, seeking to apply the persuasive techniques that they’ve been taught to speeches where they propose to improve the world in a particular way.

Lots of Practice

Throughout the workshop, students will be given a number of opportunities to put their newfound skills into practice and present in front of their peers. Given that students in this age group learn best by doing, there are plenty of practice speeches and speaking activities built into the program!

Our classes vary in size every holiday depending on how many bookings we receive – however, the maximum size of our Presentation Skills Tigers class is 9 students with one coach, and 16 students with two coaches.

If there aren’t any spots left, it’s usually because we’ve hit capacity – please get in touch with us and we’ll see what we can do about either opening an extra class, fitting your child into the existing class, or putting you on a waitlist in case any students pull out!

After each workshop, students will get to keep:

• a feedback sheet prepared by their coach (which will be emailed through) outlining what they’ve improved on during the course, and what they could continue to work on in the future;
• a certificate recognising that they have completed the Presentation Skills Tigers workshop;
• a workbook containing the key concepts that students covered during the workshop; and
• a better understanding of how public speaking works in a new context!

We have great Kindy programs available for all students who aren’t yet in Year 1 – check out our Speaking Skills Bumblebees holiday workshop and Speaking Skills Butterflies weekly term program to learn more!

We strongly recommend waiting until Year 1 before enrolling in our Tabby Cats or Tigers holiday workshops, or our Leopards and Lions term programs.

All our Year 1 – 2 programs require students to be able to write at least simple sentences, as well as read their own handwriting and instructions on the board, which most Kindergarten students are unfortunately not able to do.  This may lead to those students feeling inferior to the rest of the class, creating new fears around public speaking – the exact opposite of what we hope to achieve.

If you think that your child has sufficient reading and writing skills, we would be more than happy to talk it through with you – alternatively, we would also be more than happy to add you to our email list (see below) so we can let you know when bookings open when your child is old enough to join!

As a mixed-experience program, our Presentation Skills Tigers program is designed to be completed multiple times – with a different focus every holiday, there’s always something new for students to take away from the program!

However, if you’re looking for something more regular, you may want to give one of our term programs a try, such as Presentation Skills Leopards or Presentation Skill Lions, which will build on the skills learned during the holidays.

Check out our Frequently Asked Questions, or get in touch using our contact form to learn more!