Transition - a head start for boys

Our Transition class is a focused effort to better prepare young boys for ‘big’ school. Tudor House Transition class is a head start program. It promotes school readiness with a specialist focus on boys’ needs.

Academic Focus

Our focus is on school readiness, with an emphasis on early learning for literacy and numeracy. We aim to prepare your son for a head start in big school.

Sample Structure of the Program:

Days: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
Early Morning block - Phonics, Sight Words, Modelling Letters, Literacy.
Fresh Fruit Break.
Morning Block - Number, Maths Games, Interactive Learning with the Smart Board.
Recess - with Home-Baked Slices.
Late Morning Block - Gross Motor Skills, Listening Games, Reading, Painting.
Lunch - Fresh Meals Each Day, Play.
After Lunch Block - Reading, Social Games, Computers, Quiet Listening, Singing, Exploring.

Small Class Sizes

A social play programme - using our You Can Do It! programme we will teach games, listening skills, being organised and taking turns.

Excellent Resources

Our Transition program operates in a purpose-built classroom with computers, interactive whiteboard, piano, wet area, hands-on play spaces, audio-visual technology, and is situated close to the administration area. Your son will be cared for and safe.

Space for Boys to be Boys

We offer space with security. Our boys are supervised and led on adventures over our 160 acres of farmland grounds and forests. A working farm - our boys will grow vegetables, feed the chickens, pat the pony and watch the cattle.

Lunch is Provided!

Forget the lunchbox, we’ll do that for you! We provide nutritious meals EVERY day included in the fees!

Boys learn differently to girls.

Single-sex schools improve performance. Tudor House is the ONLY boy specialist education on offer between Canberra and Sydney.

The research is clear:

Boys underachieve in literacy, which starts early in primary school.
Single-sex education benefits young boys in social, behaviour, emotional and academic areas.
Boys with boys means there is not the maturity divide - as is apparent when mixing girls with boys.
Boys are movers and ‘doers’ - girls are sitters and ‘thinkers’.
We model ‘maleness’ with our high ratio of male teachers providing a broad, sensitive and balanced curriculum for “thinking” as well as “knowing”.

If you think Tudor House could be the school for your son, please call our Director of Enrolments, Mr David Musgrove, on 02 4868 0044 or contact us by email to make an appointment to view the school and meet our Headmaster.

Academic Life

Testimonials

We chose Tudor in the first place - to build the character of our children whilst still allowing them to be little boys. I wanted the Tom Sawyer experience for my kids. My son the other day was becoming very sentimental and said, "I would not have been able to do all of these things ANYWHERE."

Tudor House parent