11 Plus Boxing Day Brilliance in a Book!

If you’re helping a Year 5 child prepare for the 11plus, you’ll know that as we turn the page on 23, your little genius has around 9 months remaining until the entrance exams start. 

The space between the years is a powerful moment to plan for 2024 learning. It will really help to reflect on how your child is progressing across the topics your target schools test. 

If your child is to sit a creative writing exam, it will be helpful to introduce weekly home writing sessions, when your child writes a piece based on the popular exam tasks: stories, story continuation, letters, persuasive letters, descriptions and recounts. If you swap between these every couple of weeks, you’ll give your child a chance to build stamina and confidence across the different test types. This is crucial, as you won’t know in advance the exact style of writing that will be in the exam. 

Fortnightly changes allow your child to:

• Try writing one text-type.
• Have a chance to go through it together, using resources available to guide you, to see where their writing is hitting or going above the standard needed, and which areas they can practise and improve on.
• Write a second piece in the same style, with a focus on including  any features they forgot or didn’t know in the first piece.  

Uncovering areas your child misses out on is a cause for celebration. You want to high five your child as you discover and make a note of next steps to improve. It is these areas  which will lead to your child’s writing becoming the genius level it has the potential to reach. 

Sometimes, you’ll say nothing to your child. Just make a note of what’s missing, celebrate the brilliance you did see, and then you can introduce one or two feature to include in the next piece of writing. 

One such resource that can help you is the brand new 11plushappy guide, Teach Your Little Genius to Pass 11 Plus Creative Writing exams.

It will show you the 23 Must-Writes to include and develop each piece of writing into a shape that passes creative writing exams. It’s like an extended parents’ evening, with guidance for you and your child, on what successful 11plus writing should look and sound like, on what exams typically ask for, and how to make your learning time together make a difference in each session of creative writing. 

It’s a book written to take both of you from where you are to where you need to be. 

Parents who get involved in their child’s learning, who embrace the 11 plus path as a special time to be together, supporting their loved one, usually find that their child has more success and will pass more tests.  

You don’t need to be a teacher, you just need to get the guidance that works and put it into practice, step by step.

For so many reasons, you are your child’s best teacher – you are with them most of the time,  you care deeply enough to keep going, and you know what makes them tick.  Teach Your Little Genius to Pass 11 Plus Creative Writing Exams will be your ally and companion on your journey together. It will show you what tutors know and teach, equip your child with the skills they need, and provide a happy path to progress for all of you. 

I can’t wait for you to dive in to it, and can’t wait to hear the ways in which it helps your child’s writing explode. Click here to get the guide now!

Best, Lee