Client Showcase
We here at High Performance Learning are committed to helping our clients overcome any educational difficulties they may have so that they are able to excel at school and beyond. This part of our website will enable you to share in some of their achievements.
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Junior Showcase (Preschool, Kindergarten and Primary)
Senior Showcase (High School, College, University, Adult)
Junior Showcase
(Preschool, Kindergarten and Primary)
Fiction Writing
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The Time Stopper by Isabelle Stringer
This story won the 2010 YABBA ‘Write-On’ Competition open to all students in Victoria. Isabelle was twelve years old when she wrote this story. She has completed a number of programs at High Performance Learning. She had her first lesson with us when she was four years old. Click here to read ‘The Time Stopper’ by Isabelle Stringer.
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Non-Fiction Writing
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An Exploration of War and Conflict by Phoebe Murray
Phoebe Murray wrote this essay in August 2011 aged 13 during a Year 7 unit of work entitled ‘War and Conflict’.
She first became a client of High Performance Learning in 2007 suffering from very poor reading, writing and maths skills. Phoebe lives in Western Australia so all her lessons with us are done live in our online meeting rooms. After completing our Basic Language and Phonics Program and Primary School Maths Program Phoebe is now academically capable across the full range of subjects as this project she has done demonstrates.
Phoebe was required to interview someone who had memory of what life was like living through a conflict such as a war. As Phoebe said in her essay she was totally naive about the nature of war and completely unaware of conscription and the cold war.
Click here to read ‘Mr Brooks’s War Experience Unlocked’ by Phoebe Murray.
The second part of Phoebe Murray’s assignment required her to tell a story through war time correspondence. Specifically, she needed to write three letters: the first letter from a soldier to someone at home; the second letter from the someone at home to the soldier; and the final letter from a superior officer notifying the people at home of the soldier’s death.
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Senior Showcase
(High School, College, University, Adult)
Fiction Writing
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Writing A Limerick
The High Performance Learning Literary Club ran a poetry writing workshop. As a warm up exercise to learn about rhyme and rhythm the group had the task of writing the last line for a Limerick. They only had 10 minutes to do it and you can see their attempts and learn more about Limericks by clicking here. Why don’t you try to do it yourself and share it by writing it in the box at the bottom of this page.
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He Says … I Say by Robert Green
Robert Green wrote the poem ‘He Says … I Say’ in 2011 when he was in his late 20s.
At the time he was working through the High Performance Learning Basic Language and Learning Skills Course to overcome his dyslexia and improve his reading. He was also in the middle of the Advanced Study Skills Program to help him with his university studies in Psychology.
‘He Says … I Say’ was the first poem Robert ever wrote! He got inspired to write it by the following line from a Bob Seger song called ‘Against the Wind’:
‘I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.’
As you will see, that line prompted Robert to think very deeply about his Mind Set and changing his whole approach to life now he had such vastly improved language and comprehension skills. This is, something that frequently happens during the courses we run at High Performance Learning.
‘He Says … I Say’ is a very deep poem – so do it justice by reading it a number of times – you won’t be disappointed.
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