Boost your child's confidence & love of learning this summer!
Summer Learning Programs
Belleville Tutoring Centre | July 3 - September 1, 2023
Help your child catch up, review or reach ahead this summer, so they enter the classroom confident and ready to learn in September. Our fun and educational summer learning programs offer multisensory instruction tied to Provincial curriculum expectations, led by supportive and experienced educators. Groups are capped at 4 students to ensure individual attention. We differentiate the content of each class based on the group make-up, so every student, regardless of their knowledge, skill and confidence, is engaged at the appropriate level and pace. Spaces for all programs are limited.
Programs run for 1 hour per day, Monday through Thursday. Many programs already have waitlists. To add your name to a waitlist, complete the registration form and select the waitlisted program(s). We expect new sessions to be added before summer.
Don't see a program that meets your needs? Ask us about private 1-to-1 tutoring.
Questions? See our Summer Programs FAQ page or call or email us at 1-833-788-3987 or belleville@studypartners.ca.
We look forward to seeing you this summer!
PRIMARY PROGRAMS (K - GRADE 3)
Sound Sleuths (16 sessions)
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Get excited about reading! This program teaches letter sounds and names required for future reading success. Using a combination of music, games, crafts, and story time, students will learn to identify letter sounds alone and in words, and begin to read and spell simple two and three letter words. Word families will be introduced. In addition to developing an understanding of print concepts, students will practice their listening comprehension and letter formation skills. This program is perfect for pre-readers eager to learn!
Word Detectives (8 or 16 sessions)
Limited spots still available!
July 3 - July 26, Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:00 pm or 2:00 pm - $280
July 31 - August 23, Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:00 pm or 2:00 pm - $280
Join the super-secret word detective agency and crack the reading code! This program builds foundational skills necessary to become a successful, confident reader. Depending on the group make-up, students will learn how to read short and long vowels, blends and digraphs, dipthongs, sight words, and more. Using a mix of texts and activities, our supportive instructors will emphasize decoding, fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary acquisition. Ensure your beginning reading skills remain intact this summer!
Sentence Builders (8 sessions)
Limited spots still available!
July 31 - August 23, Mondays and Wednesdays, 4:00 pm - $280
Build your enthusiasm for writing in this fun program that helps students turn words into interesting sentences. In addition to beginning capitals and ending punctuation, students will learn essential parts of speech like nouns, verbs, adjectives, proper nouns, pronouns and conjunctions. Attention to printing, including letter formation, print size and spacing will be practiced daily. This program is ideal for students with basic writing skills who want to improve their form, sentence construction and writing stamina!
Beginning Writers (8 sessions)
Limited spots still available!
July 31 - August 23, Mondays and Wednesdays, 3:00 pm - $280
Develop the habit of writing for pleasure! Become a fluent, confident writer by exploring different writing structures. Using a variety of age and topic appropriate writing prompts and styles (narrative, explanatory, opinion), students will improve their brainstorming, planning, drafting, revising, and editing skills. Students will learn how to construct proper paragraphs, articulate a main idea and supporting details, create effective introductions, conclusions and transitions, and expand their vocabulary!
Math Explorers (8 sessions)
Limited spots still available!
July 31 - August 23, Mondays and Wednesdays, 3:00 pm or 4:00 pm - $280
Cultivate essential number skills required for future math success! This program uses discussion, manipulatives, games, and problem solving to help students develop their understanding and application of the big ideas and relationships in number sense and operations. Topics include representing, ordering and comparing numbers, fractions, addition and subtraction, and multiplication and division. Students will practice mental math strategies, including estimation, as well as showing and checking their work.
Lego Stories (8 sessions)
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Bring the imaginary world of Lego characters alive with storytelling! This program combines a treasured childhood activity with language arts instruction to improve students' verbal and written communications. Enthusiastic instructors will use a participatory build and tell approach to develop students’ planning, storytelling, verbal comprehension, and writing skills. Students will learn how to develop interesting characters, create a story plot, put their ideas on paper, and communicate confidently with peers!
Let's Get Ready for Kindergarten! (8 sessions)
Limited spots still available!
July 31 - August 23, Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:00 pm or 4:00 pm - $280
Kindergarten is a major milestone! Get ahead of key literacy, numeracy, and socialization expectations in our "small school" designed to ease the transition to a classroom environment. Our experienced early childhood educators use a little structure and lots of laughter and hands-on activities to introduce new and returning Kindergarten students to essential language and math concepts, important classroom routines, and key conflict resolution and communication skills required for a positive start in September!
Learn French! (16 sessions)
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Learn to love French! This program is designed to provide a fun, stress-free introduction to French that will ensure a smooth transition into French learning. Every class students will engage in games, music, and other activities that teach and practice basic conversational words, the alphabet, counting 1 to 10, colours, weather, key classroom instructions and more. This program is suitable for students new to French immersion this past school year or starting French Immersion for the first time in the fall.
JUNIOR PROGRAMS (GRADES 4 - 6)
Rising Readers (8 sessions)
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Learn to read more closely! This program is designed for students who have the decoding skills needed to read sentences and paragraphs and are now ready to improve their fluency and develop their reading comprehension strategies. Students will learn to read more smoothly, build new vocabulary and answer questions and make inferences and predictions about the main idea, the author’s purpose, mood, point of view, theme, sequence of events and more. Supercharge your reading this summer!
Young Authors (8 sessions)
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Develop next-level language skills necessary to become a confident and effective writer. In this program, students learn how to plan, draft, revise and edit more complex text forms, including poetry, short stories and biographies, to communicate multifaceted ideas and information. Our skilled writing instructors show students how to select and employ more sophisticated language patterns, grammar and spelling conventions, and stylistic elements to refine and present their ideas more effectively. Foster the author within!
Spelling Champs (8 sessions)
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Become a spelling champion! Spelling is hard; even strong readers can struggle with it. In this program, students will improve their spelling by learning to break words into parts and understand common spelling rules. Using a mix of games and challenges, students will increase the accuracy of spelling in their writing and improve their reading fluency and comprehension. This program is for students who understand magic e, blends, digraphs, dipthongs, and r-controlled vowels, and are ready for more.
Comic Creators (8 sessions)
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Develop your storytelling, writing and artistic talents by making your own comics! In this highly creative program, students will gain valuable skills in critical thinking, narrative structure, composition, and visual representation. Using paper templates and/or software downloaded to their own tablet or computer, students will work independently and collaboratively to develop compelling characters, plot lines, dialogue, and settings.This is an ideal program for imaginative students interested in art, writing, and storytelling!
Speaking Stars (8 sessions)
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Learn to love public speaking! This fun, introductory program focuses on developing students’ confidence and skill speaking in front of a group. Using engaging prompts and lots of incremental practice, students gradually move from learning to think and speak on their feet to researching and delivering prepared presentations. Along the way, our expert coaches share strategies and tips for using volume, pace, eye contact and gestures to communicate with different audiences. Discover the speaking star in you!
Math Ninjas (8 sessions)
July 31 - August 23, Mondays and Wednesdays, 4:00 pm - $280
Start seeing yourself as a “math person”! Students in this program will reinforce and extend essential grade-level math thinking, reasoning and communication skills. Using a mix of mini-lessons, practice activities, and games, our expert math coaches will target key number sense and operations skills like addition and subtraction with regrouping, advanced multiplication and division, fractions, decimals, integers and order of operations. Watch your confidence and enjoyment of math grow!
Young Scientists (8 sessions)
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Think like a scientist! This program encourages students to ask "why", "what" and "how” while exploring new ways to solve problems. Using a variety of hands-on science activities, students will develop their understanding of one or more of life systems, matter and energy, and earth and space systems. Students will practice making observations, collecting evidence, and drawing conclusions to gain a new perspective on our planet and beyond. Cultivate your curiosity for the natural world this summer!
Junior Coders (4 sessions)
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Learn to code! This program helps students build essential 21st century skills. Our tech-savvy instructors will use simple, web-based block coding programs to develop students’ critical thinking, reasoning and communication skills. Students will practice reading and altering existing code as well as solving problems using code with sequential statements. Students will also see how coding applies across subjects and where coding can be used in their everyday lives. Students must bring their own tablet or laptop.
Board Gamers (8 sessions)
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Put your math and language skills to the test in this fun, highly interactive program that engages crucial problem-solving, decision-making and communication skills. Every day students will play a different board game that challenges them to approach spelling, reading comprehension, financial literacy and mathematical tasks with confidence and creativity. The program concludes with students pairing up to create their own game, complete with rules, to compete for the coveted Gamer's Choice Award! .
Read in French (8 sessions)
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Improve your French reading! In this program, students will practice new and familiar strategies to build their decoding, fluency, comprehension and vocabulary skills in a fun, supportive environment. Working with a variety of engaging texts, students will learn to make connections between oral language, reading, and writing, and increase their motivation to continue learning in French. Students in this program must know enough French to understand what they read and be able to express ideas in written French.
French Fun! (8 sessions)
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Boost your confidence and combat language anxiety! This program uses games and other fun activities to help students become more effective communicators. Supportive instructors create a safe, creative environment for practicing listening skills, vocabulary, pronunciation and fluency, so students learn to freely and spontaneously converse in French. Reading in French and French math vocabulary will be included. Students in this program should know enough French to participate in a conversation.
INTERMEDIATE PROGRAMS (GRADES 7-8)
Middle School Reading Booster (8 sessions)
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This class provides middle school students with effective strategies for improving their vocabulary, and fluency and comprehension skills, enabling them to enjoy a wider variety of reading materials across the curriculum. Using a mix of fiction and non-fiction texts, students will engage in group discussions and analysis of the main idea, details, purpose, supportive evidence, and more. Annotation skills will also be addressed. Become a more flexible, resilient reader who reads for pleasure, as well as for academic success
Middle School Writing Booster (8 sessions)
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The ability to write effectively takes on new importance in middle school, with essays. This program provides an easy to follow approach that makes essay writing easier. Our master writing instructors will help students learn to write a strong thesis, create an outline, use evidence persuasively, and write compelling introductions and conclusions. Students will also practice their research, note-taking, and quoting and citation skills. The skills students learn will help them be more successful across a variety of subjects.
Middle School Math Booster (8 sessions)
Limited spots still available!
July 31 - August 23, Mondays and Wednesdays, 4:00 pm - $280
Middle school is a critical time to master the context needed for high school math. This program is designed to help students fill past gaps or get ahead of next year. Using real-world, hands-on activities, students will work together to strengthen their understanding of key grade 7 and 8 math concepts and skills. Topics may include square root, scientific notation, greatest common factor, exponents, multiplying and dividing fractions, decimals and integers, and solving multi-step equations. Set a foundation for future success!
Private 1-to-1 tutoring for Kindergarten to Grade 12 is available all summer long. We can help with summer school!
Questions? See our Summer Programs FAQ page or call or email us at 1-833-788-3987 or belleville@studypartners.ca.