Book Dive

As a qualified high school teacher in the Victorian education system, I've walked the journey with hundreds of parents and know just how big our hearts are to help our kids do the very best they can in school. As a mum myself of teenagers, I also know just what a challenge that can be sometimes. How can you help your student be prepared for senior English when you know they just aren't readers. You've dutifully bought the stack of books from the reading list, but now they're sitting on the desk gathering dust. how do you get them to open a page? The thing is that for a senior high school student so much hinges on their English performance. Why? Put simply, if your student is aiming to go to university after school finishes. their final English score matters! This is something that as a mum and a teacher had greatly wrestled with. There are tons of great resources on the internet - study guides, explainers etc- but let's be honest. You actually need to read the book first! There's no getting around it. You need to immerse yourself in the story, hear the writer's voice and the language they've chosen. It needs to come alive in your own head as you experience the story. Only then can you begin to make connections and start to analyse things. Only then will you have something to write about! And so our Book Dive series was born. I've channelled my passion for reading and stories and my experience as a VCE teacher into solving this problem. Our Book Dive is a unique short program designed for students heading into Year 12. Book Dives are dedicated to covering one book. You’ll enjoy a series of online sessions at your own pace where we read the book together and Amanda explains things in plain English. Students can walk into their English class full of confidence that they’ve read and understood their texts. and have an incredible head start to face their final year.~ Amanda Kendall, founder of Book Dive