Led by our own faculty staff, familiar both with the principles that underpin our approach to learning and the common challenges students come up against during their secondary school education, the Preparatory Courses furnish participants with some of the key knowledge and academic skills necessary to embark on successful academic careers. These courses are exclusively designed for all students considering applying to our school and represent the ideal opportunity to experience our outstanding teaching provision, and state of the art facilities, for the first time.
The Prep Courses will run over three sessions.
Session One: TBC
Session Two: TBC
Session Three: TBC
English Language and Mathematics courses cannot be combined together, but either can be combined with Critical Thinking.
If you have any questions about our prep courses please email [email protected]
Prep Course Registration Form
English Language
Duration: TBC
Price: TBC
Age Group: 12-15
Mode: Stationary
Days: TBC
Time: TBC
Session Dates 2025/26:
TBC
Mathematics
Duration: TBC
Price: TBC
Age Group: 12-15
Mode: Stationary
Days: TBC
Time: TBC
Session Dates 2025/26:
TBC
Critical Thinking
Duration: TBC
Price: TBC
Age Group: 12-15
Mode: Stationary
Days: TBC
Time: TBC
Session Dates 2025/26:
TBC
Course Descriptions
The English Language Course is an ideal way to experience Akademeia’s world-class approach to learning for the first time. These exclusively designed courses are geared towards students between the ages of 12-15 considering applying to our school.
The syllabus will equip learners with the necessary academic skills and strategies to succeed in their secondary school studies. Key elements of the English language, combining both structural and lexical focusses, will provide students with the foundations necessary to successfully complete many of the same assignments required of our term-time students, such as: developing research skills, academic writing, presentation delivery, and interacting with a variety of texts.
The Preparatory Mathematics Course is intended to provide a necessary foundation for success in an academic Mathematics pathway. The course is primarily designed for participants currently attending Year 8 (grade 7 in the Polish and American systems) or Year 9, with a view to applying to Akademeia to Years 9 or 10 respectively.
Students will be provided with the opportunity to learn a variety of mathematical processes, including problem solving, communicating and mathematical reasoning. They will be taught how to make connections between the subject and its applications, become mathematically literate, and to appreciate and value mathematics while making informed decisions as contributors to wider society.
A good, strong foundation in these areas of mathematics is necessary for success in future mathematics courses and this course will help students further understand, appreciate and enjoy maths so they are in a prime position to both study at Akademeia and develop a life-long affinity with the subject.
Our Critical Thinking course provides an introduction to the essential range of skills that help to analyse information, acquire meaningful knowledge, express well-justified opinions and comment on important public issues. In order to achieve this, we will touch on the following categories:
Information skills: perspectives, research, analysis, synthesis, planning, questioning.
Critical thinking skills: reasoning, evidence, claims, drawing conclusions, bias and vested interest, statements of argument (fact, opinion, prediction and value judgement), problem-solving, empathy.
Communication skills: reading, writing, listening, speaking
This course provides the ideal preparation to develop the key transferrable academic skills so valued by our school and necessary to succeed in demanding educational contexts.
