Primary School Preparation (PSP)

What is PSP?	At Ability Education we have developed a primary level course suited to younger children. The Primary School Preparation program, or PSP as it has come to be known in the industry, is designed to meet the needs of primary school level overseas students who wish to visit Australia during their school holiday periods to improve their English language skills. The PSP course is therefore seasonal and typically runs between the months of December to March and June to August. Students attending this course are usually visiting Australia on tourist visas and, as such, their period of study ranges from 4 to 12 weeks duration.
Why our Primary School Preparation?	Our PSP course does not only involve intensive English tuition at the level of the 7-11 year old child. We use the same philosophy in our PSP curriculum design that we use with our High School Preparation program. The PSP syllabus encompasses a range Subject areas that children will encounter, both in the Australian primary school system and also in their native countries including science and environmental studies, mathematics, social studies, Australian studies, and geography. For our younger students attending the PSP program at Ability Education , is particularly important for us that students feel cared for, highly valued and part of the ‘Ability family’. Our PSP student s always receive that ‘special attention’ that younger kids demand of their teachers. Classroom work is supported by a range of weekly excursions including visits to Taronga Zoo, Sydney Aquarium and Sydney Wildlife World, the Maritime Museum and Sydney tower. Friday afternoons is Sports Time when students go to the local park for a range of sporting activities
What we do:	We provide a program that: provides a 12 week English language preparation for younger students ranging in age from 7-11 years visiting Australia on tourist visas usually years during their school holiday periods’; teaches English through a syllabus designed around the key learning areas of Years 2-6 including mathematics, science, geography, history, PDHPE (Personal Development, Health and Physical Education) and Australian studies; offers a caring, safe and stimulating learning environment suitable to the needs of our younger students
Where we do it:	in an educational environment that is: clean, bright, modern, well-equipped and resourced located in the heart of Sydney, adjacent to all amenities including cinemas, theatres, exhibition centres and museums in an educational environment that is five minutes walk from Museum Station and along a main bus route
How we do it:	Our Primary School Preparation program is superior due to: Ability Education’s highly qualified, experienced and caring teachers our unique primary school based English syllabus constantly supervised school environment to ensure the safety and welfare of our younger students; a unique pastoral dimension to our school climate a focus on a communicative approach to English teaching where meaningful communication is most important and where students are given tasks to develop functional development (asking permission, asking directions, etc.) and to reinforce structural development (past tense, conditionals, etc.) regular excursions chosen to reflect course themes and to reinforce the topics studied by students during class time; weekly formal assessment every Friday of every student’s progress
Time:	9am – 3.20pm
Hours per week:	25 hours, Monday to Friday
Intake:	Every Monday during seasonal periods
Course prerequisite:	Ability to read/ write the English alphabet and take part in simple conversations.
Levels:	Beginner to Elementary

Primary School Preparation (PSP) Timetable

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