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 Spring holidays, the focus will be Telling Tales.
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.
24th September
25th September
8:45AM - 2:45PM
2 Days
$275
30th September
1st October
2nd October
9:30AM - 1:30PM
3 Days
$240
30th September
1st October
8:45AM - 2:45PM
2 Days
$275
3rd October
4th October
8:45AM - 2:45PM
2 Days
$275
8th October
9th October
8:45AM - 2:45PM
2 Days
$275
10th October
11th October
8:45AM - 2:45PM
2 Days
$275
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 2024:
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.
More Information
They say a painting is worth a thousand words, but pictures often don’t mean very much unless we’re able to form a story from what we see.
In this unique Telling Tales workshop, students learn to use visual stimuli to help them develop fascinating settings for their stories, which in turn form the basis for more interesting stories. By grounding storytelling in concrete examples, students are better able to focus on what makes a narrative engaging for their audience.
This is coupled with a range of different activities to help students practice their skills and ensure they get the most out of the workshop!
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 Telling Tales program, students should:
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.
Storytelling Fundamentals
After going through the essentials, students will cover the fundamentals of storytelling, placing a particular focus on what makes a good setting for a narrative. Students are given a range of different visual stimuli to help them build their own stories, aiming to be as inventive as possible.
Developing Engaging Tales
The remainder of the program takes students through a range of different speaking activities, all intending to help students become even more engaging storytellers. After each presentation, coaches will provide constructive feedback for students to help them to continue to improve as the workshop goes on!
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!
