The British Council November/ December 2021 Holiday Study Camps (Early Years to Secondary)

Fairy tales and animal stories will be the source of children’s reading as they explore magical worlds to build their reading confidence.

Interactive, engaging and phonics focused, this reading-focused week will combine phonics, writing and comprehension skills with exciting topics.

Children will dive into a story while learning about word classes, exciting vocabulary, and plot. They’ll interact with a model text by acting it out, describing characters, and creating story maps.

Children will get to express their creative side through an Act it Out programme. They’ll have the opportunity to learn about characterisation, telling stories and props as they practise a short play.

Primary-aged learners will get to build their confidence by sharing their ideas and opinions, persuading their classmates, and telling stories. They’ll practise reading aloud with feeling, interactive speaking skills, presentations, and using language to convince.

Producing different texts to create a Study Camp magazine is the theme of this writing skills week. Learners will focus on different fictional or non-fiction writing text including poems, stories, informative and personal recounts, letters, and articles.

Problem solving and future thinking is the theme of this writing skills week. Learners will focus on non-fiction texts to develop the skills they’ll need for their future writing success and have to demonstrate their understanding of issues.

P1 to P4 learners will explore plots, dialogue, characterisation, and presentations as they develop, rehearse and perform a short scene or play.

P5 & P6 learners will explore their reading aloud, anecdote and factual presentation skills as they work towards developing a dialogue to rehearse and perform.

Learners will pick up techniques to evaluate and understand fiction and non-fiction texts while reading about people who have faced challenging situations. The texts will provide learners with language, ideas generation and organisational skills needed to produce short responses to readings.

Learners will develop their essay writing skills in this interactive course. They will explore different parts of effective essay writing, from introductions, hooks and paragraph structure to counter arguments, hedging and conclusions.

This persuasion-themed week will help learners create compelling and logically organised speeches, essays, and discussions. It will cover different techniques used to politely agree, disagree, and share opinions, learners will gain confidence in expressing and elaborating on their ideas.

Learners will use their summarising and presentation skills to investigate and share solutions with their classmates. Using a combination of research skills, critical thinking, and creativity, they’ll collaborate to come up with an innovative solution to a hot-button issue.