This workshop provides interactive and fun activities to both deepen students’ understanding of how to best present in front of a class and to further develop their confidence in speaking to audiences.
Over the Summer holidays, the focus will be Speaking Up.
Provide early primary students with interesting new public speaking experiences.
Introduce students to new perspectives on public speaking, whilst understanding that students are still developing abstract thought.
Provide students with various opportunities to practice their skills and receive individualised feedback.
7th January
8th January
10:00AM - 4:00PM
2 Days
$275
20th January
21st January
22nd January
9:30AM - 1:30PM
3 Days
$240
13th January
14th January
9:00AM - 3:00PM
2 Days
$275
16th January
17th January
9:00AM - 3:00PM
2 Days
$275
20th January
21st January
9:00AM - 3:00PM
2 Days
$275
23rd January
24th January
9:00AM - 3:00PM
2 Days
$275
Recommended for students entering Years 1 & 2 in 2025.
This workshop seeks to provide students with various crucial skills they need to succeed in their next presentation (and life in general). Using the Tabby Cats workshop as a foundation, the Tigers program uses a mix of experiential learning and speaking games to help students both deepen their understanding of public speaking as well as develop their confidence in presenting to audiences.
Placing student-centred learning at its heart, this program changes from holiday to holiday, allowing students to practice and develop a much more comprehensive range of presentation skills that they can use whenever they deliver presentations at school. In particular, students will cover the following in 2025:
Each of these takes a deep dive into the selected topic, allowing students to develop their skills in a different way each and every holiday. Importantly, given that most students in this age group have not developed abstract thought, all sessions have a strong emphasis on activities and ‘learning by doing’.
As with all of our presentation skills training courses, we also ensure that classes are kept small, so students are nurtured in a safe and welcoming environment where they feel comfortable expressing themselves and developing their communication skills.
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When we listen to others present, most of our attention – more than 90% – isn’t spent listening to the actual words people say. Instead, most of our attention goes towards the presenter’s speaking manner, such as their body language, tone and gestures.
Our January Holiday workshop aims to help students with Speaking Up across all aspects of their lives, taking their speaking manner to the next level. Focusing on a range of methods students can utilise to make their speeches more engaging – from stance to gestures to tone – our coaches guide students through various activities that help them build a holistic sense of speaking manner. This helps them not only better captivate their audience, but also feel more confident when presenting generally.
By combining these activities with individualised feedback and self-reflection, students are able to truly come into their own, developing their own personal brand when making speeches!
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:
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 Speaking Up workshop, students should:
Revision of Fundamental Concepts
The program starts with a succinct (but important) revision of the essential concepts covered in our beginner-level programs, including audience engagement and speech structure. This helps set students up for the rest of the workshop, and ensures that everyone starts on a similar level, even if they’ve not attended one of our programs before.
Physical Manner
Around half of the program will focus on helping students develop a physical presence when giving speeches. Depending on their starting point, this will involve looking at things like stance, eye contact and hand gestures, helping students feel more comfortable with how they hold themselves whilst presenting.
This will be accompanied by a range of activities and practice speeches to help students build their own personal physical speaking manner.
Verbal Manner
The other main focus of the program will be verbal manner. Students will consider the core ideas, from tone to pacing, and how they can best utilise each to add flair and personality to their presentations.
Similar to physical manner, minimal time will be spent on theory, with the emphasis being squarely on activities and practice speeches to help students develop at their own pace.
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 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:
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!
It is an excellent program. I will be interested to book my daughter again in the future.
My daughter has learned a lot and was able to tell me about speech structures and key points about presenting in front of audience.
My kids enjoyed the online holiday programs very much. They had a lot of fun and learnt very useful strategies. It was much better than I had expected!
According to the scores of Tigers surveyed in 2023...
had fun!
felt more confident!
improved their speaking manner!
could better structure their speeches!
wanted to come back next time!
