There are two groups of students who would benefit from our Presentation Skills Tigers program.

The first group are those who have previous formal coaching in public speaking.  This may be from one of our programs – perhaps our Tabby Cats holiday program, or our Leopards or Lions weekly term programs – from another provider, or potentially through their school.  The Presentation Skills Tigers program also changes from holiday to holiday, so students are more than welcome (and even encouraged) to give it a couple of tries.  If you’re not sure whether your child has enough experience, please get in touch and we can chat about your circumstances.

The second group is for students who have a little experience, but are naturally more confident and would be able to hold their own with other, more experienced students.  Whilst we would still recommend that these students still give our Presentation Skills Tabby Cats program a try first, we understand that dates and locations don’t always line up.  Given this, we often enrol a few students without much experience.  If you think your child may fall into this category, please reach out and we can discuss it with you!

Over the course of Presentation Skills Tigers, students will have the opportunity to:

• participate in a wide range of activities, most of which masquerade as games, which help students develop key presentation skills such as voice projection and eye contact;
• practice their speaking skills in a fun and welcoming environment that emulates real life presentations; and
• reinforce the key aspects of public speaking, ensuring they’re better prepared for the middle years of primary school.

Day #1

The first day starts with a few activities that help students feel comfortable with the class, before going through the basic concepts that were covered in our Presentation Skills Tabby Cats program.  The rest of the day will then be spent looking at a certain style of public speaking – ranging from storytelling to persuasive speeches – depending on the students’ interest.  Whichever focus they take, the day will be filled with plenty of activities to help engage students with the course content.

Day #2

The second day runs similarly to the first, just with a different focus – students are settled into the class in the morning, before looking at a different style of public speaking, and finishing with a range of speaking activities (which are designed to be perceived as games) to help students to further develop their confidence and speaking ability.

Our classes vary in size every holiday depending on how many bookings we receive – however, the maximum size of our Tigers class is 10 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 program, students will go home with:

• a feedback sheet prepared by their coach, which outlines 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 any notes that the students wrote down during the course; and
• a better understanding of how public speaking works in the real world!

If you’re interested in doing another holiday program, we would recommend that students give our Presentation Skills Tigers program another go.  As mentioned above, the program has a wide range of different focuses, meaning that no two programs are the same – students are even able to do it multiple times over the same holiday!

Alternatively, if you’re keen on a weekly term program, we would recommend our Presentation Skills Leopards program.  The Leopards course takes persuasive speeches to the next level, helping students develop complete speeches over the course of a term.

We strongly recommend waiting until Year 1 before enrolling in our Tabby Cats or Tigers holiday programs, or our Leopards and Lions term programs – all our Cats 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 well 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 (although we would definitely recommend that they do the Presentation Skills Tabby Cats program first!) – 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!