Giving kids the ABCs & 123s to be the brightest little learners they can be!
Get Smart Learning in association with Begin Bright present our Preschooler and Early Primary aged programs which focus on supporting our youngest learners in the early stages of development and school life. Our programs assist children in building confidence and creating a love of learning, so children can flourish when they start school.
Our Early Years Learning Framework, gives young children a balanced introduction to learning as well as early exposure to maths, literacy, and social skills by engaging with well-known children’s books.
Get Smart also offers our well-known Maths and Literacy programs which are designed to give focused attention to the development of these essential skills. This program is ideal for students who are more confident with their learning and wish to progress their mathematics and literacy fundamentals.
We offer one-on-one tutoring either in home or at our Maroubra Campus.
Get Smart now also offers Get Smart Virtual, online via Zoom. Based on our Maths and Literacy programs, we have developed school readiness lesson plans that parents can now do with their children at home!
Throughout all the Get Smart Programs, children are supported to:
Using the Begin Bright Program, Get Smart teaches synthetic phonics in our School Readiness Program so that when a child arrives at the stage of decoding words, the words can be broken into small pieces (e.g., b-ea-ch). This approach gives children more decoding success when they reach words that they cannot identify through context and appearance alone. All of our programs are designed to be enjoyable and give kids the absolute best start to their education.
Who is the Study Skills Development Program designed for?
Maths & Literacy Program
-Australian Curriculum aligned;
-A combination of group, one on one, and independent work encouraged
-Workbook based;
-Concentration on fundamentals of maths and literacy (reading, writing and oral language) skills;
-Pencil grip and hand-eye co-ordination are developed to support the preparation of -writing, along with the tracing of vertical, horizontal and curved lines;
-Craft based and movement activities also enhance physical and fine motor skills;
-Each week focuses on one letter and numbers 1 – 10: s, a, t, p, i,n, m, d, g, o, c, e, k, u, r, h, b, f, l, j, v, w, x, y, z, and qu.
Maths & Literacy Program
-Designed to support children in their transition to school
Australian Curriculum aligned;
-A combination of group, one on one, and independent work encouraged
Workbook based;
-Concentration on fundamentals of maths and literacy (reading, writing and oral language) skills;
-Activities introduce reading and writing skills and enhance children’s language skills;
-Focuses on recognising and writing numbers 1 – 20, and learning to add single-digit numbers;
-Children learn to identify sound formations as letters, recognise sounds in words, and write words containing the sounds. We focus on single sounds at the beginning, end, and middle of three-letter words;
-Writing skills continue to be developed, including pencil grip and hand-eye co-ordination as children transition into readily printing letters and numerals;
-An excellent option for those students ready for further numeracy and literacy development.
Enriched Learning Program
-Designed to support children in their first year of primary school by reinforcing and extending learning based activities around their school work;
-Australian Curriculum aligned;
-Weekly Literature study with universally loved books like “The Rainbow Fish”
-Includes hands-on, fun activities that are linked to reading and writing skills;STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths), subjects and the arts;
-By revisiting key skills, strategies, and content at different times of the year, our program ensures that learning really sticks.
Maths & Literacy Program
-This program concentrates on the first year of primary school level maths and literacy (reading, writing and oral language) skills;
-Designed to support children in their first year of primary school by reinforcing and extending learning based on their school work;
-Australian Curriculum aligned;
-A combination of group, one on one, and independent work encouraged;
-Children get a good foundation of reading principles, reviewing single sounds, blend sounds and then introducing sight words, punctuation and writing;
-This program focuses on understanding concrete concepts behind the abstract questions. At this year level, children can connect names, numerals, and quantities for numbers. We encourage fluency in counting sequences, adding and subtracting, and developing problem-solving skills.