Enrol for an 8-lesson online short course in English to boost skills in one area of knowledge (Years 1-6). Check out our annual schedule of short courses here.
Classes are 70 minutes long and have a maximum of 6 students of similar academic abilities.
Primary courses cost £40 per lesson. The total cost for an 8-lesson course is £320.
If you join a course that has already started, you will only be charged for the remaining lessons.
Year 1 - Reading Skills (8 Lessons)
This 8-lesson course will teach students Year 1 reading skills. Our experienced tutors will use a range of interactive teaching techniques to help students develop fluent and accurate reading skills.
Skills taught on this course include:
- Understanding the meaning of words
- Making inferences from reading
- Understanding predictions from reading
All class workbooks will be provided by the tutor. This course is suitable for students currently in Year 1 and students starting Year 1 this September.
This course follows the KS1 National Literacy Curriculum.
Year 1 - Spelling and Vocabulary (8 Lessons)
This 8-lesson course will teach students Year 1 spelling and vocabulary. Our experienced tutors will use a range of interactive teaching techniques to help students feel confident with spellings and vocabulary.
Skills taught on this course include:
- Spelling words with all 40+ phonemes, days of the week and common exception words
- Adding prefixes and suffixes to spell words
- Beginning to use punctuation
- Using capital letters for names of places, people, days of the week and I
- Using clauses to join sentences
All class workbooks will be provided by the tutor. This course is suitable for students currently in Year 1 and students starting Year 1 this September.
This course follows the KS1 National Literacy Curriculum.
Year 2 - Spelling and Vocabulary (8 Lessons)
This 8-lesson course will teach students Year 2 spelling and vocabulary skills. Our experienced tutors will use a range of interactive teaching techniques to help students feel confidence using spelling rules and vocabulary.
Skills taught on this course include:
- Practicing spelling using phonic knowledge
- Adding suffixes to spell longer words
- Learning how to use punctuation correctly
- Learning how to use the four different sentence types
- Using expanded noun phrases
- Using subordinating and coordinating conjunctions
All class workbooks will be provided by the tutor. This course is suitable for students currently in Year 2 and students starting Year 2 this September.
This course follows the KS1 National Literacy Curriculum.
Year 2 - Writing Practice Course (8 Lessons)
This 8-lesson course will teach students Year 2 writing skills. Our experienced tutors will use a range of interactive teaching techniques to help students write fiction and non-fiction texts.
Skills taught on this course include:
- Planning writing
- Writing narratives and fiction
- Writing non-fiction texts
- Writing poetry
All class workbooks will be provided by the tutor. This course is suitable for students currently in Year 2 and students starting Year 2 this September.
This course follows the KS1 National Literacy Curriculum.
Year 3 - Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (8 Lessons)
This 8-lesson course will teach students Year 3 spelling, punctuation and grammar skills. Our experienced tutors will use a range of interactive teaching techniques to help students become confident in these areas.
Skills taught on this course include:
- Spell Year 3 words
- Using punctuation correctly
- Understanding KS2 grammar
All class workbooks will be provided by the tutor. This course is suitable for students currently in Year 3 and students starting Year 3 this September.
This course follows the KS2 National Literacy Curriculum.
Year 3 - Writing Practice Course (8 Lessons)
This 8-lesson course will teach students Year 3 writing skills. Our experienced tutors will use a range of interactive teaching techniques to help students write accurately and confiedently.
Skills taught on this course include:
- Writing short stories
- Planning writing
- Scene-setting through writing
- Description writing
- Using headings and sub-headings
All class workbooks will be provided by the tutor. This course is suitable for students currently in Year 3 and students starting Year 3 this September.
This course follows the KS2 National Literacy Curriculum.
Year 4 - Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (8 Lessons)
This 8-lesson course will teach students Year 4 spelling, punctuation and grammar skills. Our experienced tutors will use a range of interactive teaching techniques to help students practice their skills.
Skills taught on this course include:
- Spell Year 4 words
- Using punctuation correctly
- Understanding KS2 grammar
All class workbooks will be provided by the tutor. This course is suitable for students currently in Year 4 and students starting Year 4 this September.
This course follows the KS2 National Literacy Curriculum.
Year 4 - Writing Practice Course (8 Lessons)
This 8-lesson course will teach students Year 4 writing skills. Our experienced tutors will use a range of interactive teaching techniques to help students write coherent and accurate texts.
Skills taught on this course include:
- Organising writing
- Writing non-fiction
- Writing fiction
- Writing narrative and speech
- Evaluating and editing writing
All class workbooks will be provided by the tutor. This course is suitable for students currently in Year 4 and students starting Year 4 next September.
This course follows the KS2 National Literacy Curriculum.
Year 5 - Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (8 Lessons)
This 8-lesson course will teach students Year 5 spelling, punctuation and grammar skills. Our experienced tutors will use a range of interactive teaching techniques to help students accurately read texts.
Skills taught on this course include:
- Spell Year 5 words
- Using punctuation correctly
- Understanding KS2 grammar
All class workbooks will be provided by the tutor. This course is suitable for students currently in Year 5 and students starting Year 5 this September.
This course follows the KS2 National Literacy Curriculum..
Year 5 - Writing Practice Course (8 Lessons)
This 8-lesson course will teach students Year 5 writing skills. Our experienced tutors will use a range of interactive teaching techniques to help students write complex texts.
Skills taught on this course include:
- Writing with purpose
- Writing for a purpose
- Writing from research
- Organising and presenting writing
- Advancing narratives
- Improving writing
All class workbooks will be provided by the tutor. This course is suitable for students currently in Year 5 and students starting Year 5 next September.
This course follows the KS2 National Literacy Curriculum.
Year 6 - Spelling, Punctuation and Grammar (8 Lessons)
This 8-lesson course will teach students Year 6 reading skills. Our experienced tutors will use a range of interactive teaching techniques to help students read and understand complex fiction and non-fiction texts.
Skills taught on this course include:
- Spell Year 6 words
- Using punctuation correctly
- Understanding KS2 grammar
All class workbooks will be provided by the tutor. This course is suitable for students currently in Year 6 and students starting Year 6 this September.
This course follows the KS2 National Literacy Curriculum.
Year 6 - Writing Practice Course (8 Lessons)
This 8-lesson course will teach students Year 6 writing skills. Our experienced tutors will use a range of interactive teaching techniques to help students write fiction and non-fiction texts.
Skills taught on this course include:
- Writing articles
- Writing explanations
- Writing persuasive letters
- Writing balanced arguments
- Writing fiction
All class workbooks will be provided by the tutor. This course is suitable for students currently in Year 6 and students starting Year 6 next September.
This course follows the KS2 National Literacy Curriculum.