So how do you actually get into QE Boys’? It is the question I am asked most often, by parents whose sons are in Year 4 or Year 5, at the kitchen table at 9pm on a Tuesday. They have …
So how do you actually get into Merchant Taylors’? It is the question I am asked most often, by parents whose sons are in Year 4 or Year 5, at the kitchen table at 9pm on a Tuesday. They have …
So how do you actually get into KCS? It is the question I am asked most often, by parents whose sons are in Year 4 or Year 5, at the kitchen table at 9pm on a Tuesday. They have usually …
So how do you actually get into Highgate? It is the question I am asked most often, by parents whose children are in Year 4 or Year 5, at the kitchen table at 9 pm on a Tuesday. They have …
So how do you actually get into Habs Boys’? It is the question I am asked most often, by parents whose sons are in Year 4 or Year 5, almost always at the kitchen table at 9pm on a Tuesday. …
So how do you actually get into CLS? It is the question I am asked most often, by parents whose sons are in Year 4 or Year 5, at the kitchen table at 9pm on a Tuesday. They have usually …
There is a right way and a wrong way to prepare a four year old for an assessment, and the difference shows up clearly on the day. Here is the approach I have refined over twenty years and hundreds of …
Every parent I meet at this stage asks me the same question, in slightly different words: “What are they actually looking for?” And every parent is also slightly afraid of the answer, in case it turns out to be something …
In February 2025, Reading School announced a redesigned entrance exam, effective from the September 2025 sitting. The new format, set by Future Stories Community Enterprise (FSCE, Reading School’s own assessment subsidiary), is positioned by the school as removing the need …
If you have just realised the 11+ is on your family’s horizon and you have no idea where to start, this article is for you. I have written it as the conversation I would have if you booked a free …