Led by our own faculty staff, familiar both with the principles that underpin our approach to learning and the common challenges students come up against during their secondary school education, the Preparatory Courses furnish participants with some of the key knowledge and academic skills necessary to embark on successful academic careers. These courses are exclusively designed for students not currently studying and Akademeia High School and represent the ideal opportunity to experience our outstanding teaching provision, and state of the art facilities, for the first time.
The Prep Courses will run over two sessions:
Session One: 6 October 2025 – 9 December 2025
Session Two: 12 January 2026 – 19 March 2026
Registrations to Session One will open by the end of this week (19.09). Course offerings for Session Two will be published in October. If you have any questions, please email [email protected]
English Language
Duration: 8 weeks
Price: 3840 PLN
Target Age Range: 12-14
Mode: Stationary
Days: Wednesday and Thursdays
Time: 5PM - 6:25PM
Session Dates 2025/26:
TBC
Mathematics
Duration: 8 weeks, twice a week
Price: 3840 PLN
Target Age Range: 12-14
Mode: Stationary
Days: Mondays and Tuesdays
Time: 5PM - 6:25PM
Session Dates 2025/26:
TBC
Critical Thinking
Duration: 8 weeks, once a week
Price: 1920 PLN
Target Age Range: 13-15
Mode: Stationary
Days: Wednesday
Time: 5PM - 6:25PM
Session Dates 2025/26:
TBC
Creative Writing
Duration: 8 weeks, once a week
Price: 1920 PLN
Target Age Range: 13-15
Mode: Online
Days: Friday
Time: 4:35PM - 6:00PM
Session Dates 2025/26:
TBC
Course Descriptions
The English Language Course is an ideal way to experience Akademeia’s world-class approach to learning for the first time. These exclusively designed courses are geared towards students between the ages of 12-15 considering applying to our school.
The syllabus will equip learners with the necessary academic skills and strategies to succeed in their secondary school studies. Key elements of the English language, combining both structural and lexical focusses, will provide students with the foundations necessary to successfully complete many of the same assignments required of our term-time students, such as: developing research skills, academic writing, presentation delivery, and interacting with a variety of texts.
The Preparatory Mathematics Course is intended to provide a necessary foundation for success in an academic Mathematics pathway. The course is primarily designed for participants currently attending Year 8 (grade 7 in the Polish and American systems) or Year 9, with a view to applying to Akademeia to Years 9 or 10 respectively.
Students will be provided with the opportunity to learn a variety of mathematical processes, including problem solving, communicating and mathematical reasoning. They will be taught how to make connections between the subject and its applications, become mathematically literate, and to appreciate and value mathematics while making informed decisions as contributors to wider society.
A good, strong foundation in these areas of mathematics is necessary for success in future mathematics courses and this course will help students further understand, appreciate and enjoy maths so they are in a prime position to both study at Akademeia and develop a life-long affinity with the subject.
Our Critical Thinking course provides an introduction to the essential range of skills that help to analyse information, acquire meaningful knowledge, express well-justified opinions and comment on important public issues. In order to achieve this, we will touch on the following categories:
Information skills: perspectives, research, analysis, synthesis, planning, questioning.
Critical thinking skills: reasoning, evidence, claims, drawing conclusions, bias and vested interest, statements of argument (fact, opinion, prediction and value judgement), problem-solving, empathy.
Communication skills: reading, writing, listening, speaking
This course provides the ideal preparation to develop the key transferrable academic skills so valued by our school and necessary to succeed in demanding educational contexts.
