Primary Plus

With British Council’s 80 years of teaching expertise, excellent teaching qualifications and our knowledge of children’s language development, our courses are designed to expand their capabilities step by step and build up their confidence.

In each level of Primary Plus, there is a balance of all four language skills with an emphasis on reading development at lower levels to support access to the syllabus and further develop literacy skills at the higher levels.

Equip your child with skills for life

Our courses support children in their physical, personal, social and emotional development as well as in developing important life skills such as creativity, leadership and critical thinking. There are specially formulated activities and engagement with a variety of media to help children gain essential life skills naturally. We developed our six key life skills according to the ‘6Cs’ framework developed by Fullan and Langworthy (2013), and UNESCO’s transversal skills (2013)

• Creativity and imagination
• Leadership and personal development
• Citizenship
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Digital literacy
• Collaboration and communication.

Fun and interactive classes

We use a variety of stimulating materials and activities such as games, music and tasks that employ logic and higher-order thinking to appeal to different learning styles and multiple intelligence inclinations.

Collaboration and interaction between children and teachers create an environment where children are free to express themselves and ask questions. Children will love these types of lessons!

A clear sense of progress

Parents will be able to see their child’s progress via modular assessment of in-class tasks with feedback every four to six lessons and automatically-marked online grammar and vocabulary activities.

A final communicative task with measurable outcomes e.g. a project, writing task or presentation will be done at the end of each module to measure the progress of your child. 

Primary Plus online portal

The learning activities on the Primary Plus online portal are specially designed for grammar and vocabulary training with language learning games that unlock once students reach a certain level of progress. 

SPORTS AND GAMES (PRIMARY LEVEL 1)

In this module, children learn about new sports vocabulary and express likes and dislikes about different sports. The children also use the core language from the module to create and describe a new sport. They work together to design clothing for their created sport.

End of module task: Children talk to their classmates about their likes and abilities using a paper representation of themselves

Whole child learning goals:

• Reasoning: distinguishing between opinions and facts.
• Information processing: sorting and classifying clothes according to sport and colour.

Learning Time with Shaun: Shaun and the sheep have a fun game of football.

MAKING A DIFFERENCE (PRIMARY LEVEL 5)

In this module, children talk about what they think they can do for the environment themselves, and what others can do. They create a poster about protecting the environment, including writing tips for other children on what to do for the environment.

End of module task: Children plan and give a short presentation about an invention that can help the environment.

Whole child learning goals:

• Leadership:  demonstrating self-confidence in class discussions.
• Citizenship:  developing an understanding of environmental sustainability.

Learning Time with Shaun: The farmer wants to help save the environment. He is interested in wind energy.