Our comprehensive Thinking Skills courses target students of various abilities with our ascending levels of difficulty: Junior Thinking Skills, Intermediate Thinking Skills and Senior Thinking Skills. These courses encompass various aspects of critical and creative thinking: problem-solving, computational thinking, ethical reasoning, and metacognition. These skills are developed through the decoding of puzzles and patterns, reading diagrams, making inferences and applications of spatial, verbal and logical abilities, etc.
The lesson structure comprises three parts. Students begin by undergoing a mini-test consisting of 15 questions. Following this, the teacher conducts a thorough review of the questions to ensure that students grasp the underlying concepts. The class then moves on with a focused exploration of one or two specific thinking skills topics, wherein the teacher provides in-depth insights and clarification of the acquired skills. Additionally, students are assigned homework to be completed after the lesson. Prerecorded explanations of the homework questions are available on the parent's portal.
| School | Offered | Reserved |
|---|---|---|
| James Ruse AHS | 42 | 20 |
| North Sydney Girls HS | 28 | 2 |
| Baulkham Hills HS | 23 | 17 |
| North Sydney Boys HS | 20 | 8 |
| Normanhurst Boys HS | 17 | 1 |
| Sydney Boys HS | 14 | 6 |
| Hornsby Girls HS | 14 | 4 |
| Sydney Girls HS | 8 | 1 |
| Fort Street HS | 7 | 2 |
| Penrith Selective HS | 7 | 1 |
| Girraween HS | 7 | 1 |
| St George Girls HS | 6 | 1 |
| Hurlstone Agriculture HS | 6 | 1 |
| Others | 52+ |
| YEAR 5/6 | YEAR 7/8 | |
|---|---|---|
| First Prize | Pranaya Prakash | Aditya Paul |
| Second Prize | Richelle Lam | Cynthia Cai |
| Third Prize | Jaithra Vasani | |
| Highly Commended | Anooushka Vijay Anand
Ojas Kaviraj Prethyun Prasanth |
Aditya Patel Bella Zhang Nathan Song |
| School | Offered | Reserved |
|---|---|---|
| Beecroft Public School | 7 | 9 |
| North Rocks Public School | 13 | 3 |
| Ermington Public School | 10 | 3 |
| Artarmon Public School | 15 | 5 |
| Matthew Pearce Public School | 8 | 1 |
| Dural Public School | 9 | 3 |
| Summer Hills Public School | 8 | 2 |
| Waitara Public School | 6 | 2 |
| Hurstville Public School | 2 | 1 |
| Ryde Public School | 7 | 1 |
| Ironbark Ridge Public School | 6 | 4 |
| Chatswood Public School | 8 | 2 |
| Others | 45+ |