Ten weeks with the same book, the same teacher and the same five other children.
A holiday course can show a child what good reading feels like. A term is long enough to make it a habit — one hour a week, every week, with writing that gets marked and rewritten in between.
10 Oct – 12 Dec
1 hour a lesson
3–6 students
Year 1–7
How every lesson runs
- The teacher reads aloud, and thinks aloud. Children almost never get to hear an expert reader think.
- The class digs in together. With three to six children, nobody hides at the back.
- Your child writes, every lesson. Shared Writing — the teacher builds the piece alongside them rather than handing over a template. Their ideas stay theirs; the vocabulary and sentence structure get lifted.
- Work comes back with real feedback, and gets revised. Submitted through Showbie, marked in detail, rewritten. A grade tells a child where they stand. Feedback tells them what to do next.
Choose your child’s class
Ten lessons, six places per class. Full details and booking below.
Create the Term 4 events in Amelia first, then replace this whole box with
(109–113) — those are the holiday classes.
Taking two classes? Plenty of children pair a Novel Study class with Writing Improvement. Check the two times don’t fall on the same evening before you book — and if you want a view on whether two is right for your child, ask at the assessment.
Times hold for the whole term. The eastern states moved to daylight saving on 4 October, before term starts, and the next change is not until April. Nothing shifts mid-term, so you only have to work the time out once.
From “I don’t know what to write” to this
Real work by real Mica students, and their parents in their own words. Shared with each family’s written permission, first names only.
“My child can read really well, but he lacked writing skills. I was very pleased to see that he is now able to write longer, and is more willing to write. I am so grateful that I signed him up.”
— [ FIRST NAME ], parent of a Year 3 student
“I signed up for the holiday program just because I didn’t want my child playing too many video games. I didn’t think ten lessons would build his confidence in writing. He now loves to write.”
— [ FIRST NAME ], parent of a Year 5 student
“My child came to Australia a year ago. I always worried about whether he was catching up with the others in English. We have stayed with Mica for a third year now. He has not only caught up with his peers, he is ahead.”
— [ FIRST NAME ], parent of a Year 2 student
None of these children became the best writer in their class overnight. That isn’t what happened, and we won’t pretend it is. What changed is that they stopped being frightened of a blank page.
Not sure which level? The bands overlap on purpose, and a child who is a strong reader but a reluctant writer often belongs in a different class than you’d guess. Book a free assessment and we’ll tell you honestly which one fits — about twenty minutes, no obligation.
The quiet head start on selective and scholarship tests
This isn’t exam preparation. There are no practice papers and no mock tests. But it builds the thing those papers actually measure.
A selective or scholarship reading paper hands a child an unfamiliar text under time pressure and asks them to work out what it means. The writing task gives them a prompt and roughly twenty-five minutes. Neither rewards memorised content — they test whether a child can think on unfamiliar ground and get that thinking onto paper quickly.
That capacity is built over years of reading hard things closely and writing about them. It cannot be crammed in Year 5, which is when most families start.
Which is the argument for a term rather than a holiday block. A fortnight is a good start. Ten weeks, repeated across a few terms, is how the thing actually gets built — and a Year 3 child who works this way arrives at Year 6 preparation with far less to fix.
Still deciding? Watch a whole lesson first
Five minutes, start to finish. Homework feedback, reading the chapter, building the writing, and the homework that goes out at the end. Nothing staged and nothing cut out.