Tag: 11plus
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New for You! 15 top-level non-fiction models to help your child be the best writer in the exam room
A year in the writing, informed by hundreds of hours of teaching, and already helping people win success in dozens of 11plus entrance exams, please may I introduce an absolute must-have for your book-shelf or digital library in 2025: In digital: In paperback from Amazon:
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Celebrate what they don’t know…
One highly effective and relaxing teaching and learning method you should use with your child is to high five them when a test shows they don’t know something. Let me explain. They sit a Maths paper and it shows they don’t know co-ordinates, or have forgotten how to do long division, or they come across…
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Sutton Test 11 Plus Creative Writing Exam Approaching?
Harvest time is approaching. Hopefully, your young minds are ready and ripe for exam success. We know the Sutton grammars use a multiple choice format for stage 1. Usually, this means a lot of people are focusing rightly on this first stage. But don’t forget that your child has to dazzle all over again in…
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11-a-side 11-plus-a-side: will your child be on the winning team in this year’s exams?
As we gather and grow excited for Sunday’s shot at history, are you also growing excited for your child’s equivalent Euro finals – their upcoming 11plus exam? If so, make a note of this book – it’s the single-most important creative writing book you will read. It will show you every must-write final exam-winning feature…
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What are you teaching your child today?
Seriously. Let me know. Have you planned it? It’s the most important question to know the answer to make sure they make progress each day. It might be five minutes on a times table, silent letter spellings, or something longer like a piece of creative writing. you need to know to make it happen. Repeat…
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This book really improves your child’s 11plus creative writing
If you’re spending time helping your child’s eleven-plus creative writing reach the grade for secondary school entrance exams, make sure you make progress – i.e. something changes about the writing itself or the understanding of the techniques and ideas – in every session. This book helps you do just that. I wrote it for parents…
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What has 6 faces and is an amazing teacher?
Quick 11+ game of the day. Grab a dice, grab a targeted vocabulary list from the net, print it out, and BOOM, you have a game board. Write a sentence with each word you land on. Don’t know the meaning of the word? Excellent. Look it up and you’re both learning new words that can…
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Learn Out Loud – please read with your voice turned up!
Because the week is about fun, I thought – how can I show ‘em? Then some words raced into the room And yelled: “Just write a poem!” Mums and dads – they need fun too They might have grumpy faces Just speak in an unusual way And take them to fun places It might go…
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Knock knock…who’s there?
No one, it’s Halloween! See you tomorrow for an 11plus master tip. Lee, trick or treating in London, 31st October, 2023
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How do you keep a fool in suspense?
Join me tomorrow for a week of why a sense of humour will super-boost your child’s chances of exam success. Lee, Currently laughing in London, the Eve of Halloween