Tag: eleven plus guide
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Part 2 of seriously un-serious* ways to help your child remember serious words
You know your child, you know what they like. The single rule might be: “Many ways for different brains.” Here is a happy handful of word-learning games. Feel free to use these as springboards to get into the activity of designing or improvising games with your child as co-inventor. 1. Does your child sing? Have…
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What is happening to the eleven plus exam? How to name and get rid of your worries about the 11+ . (The write way to worry!)
A conversation with a close friend, who is worrying about their daughter’s 11 plus in these difficult times, has prompted this post. In truth, we don’t know exactly what is going to happen. We can predict, though, that something will happen. Either the tests will be rearranged, postponed, or a new system will be temporarily…
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Superinfluence Part 2: Deciding what and how starts with where
Okay, decision time. This level of superinfluence happens either before, or in the early stages of, helping your child be superhero prepared and happy. Your child can’t do this because they don’t know the choices. They can’t see over the fence of the next hour without your help. That’s how children are; totally immersed in…
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SUPERINFLUENCE: “I am the single most important factor in my child’s 11+ success.”
I know you could have told yourself that, but here’s what that one truth means. Your child:- 1. Loves you. 2. Believes you. 3. Needs you. 4. Learns from you. 5. Learns everything about how to be, learn and think from you. Your son or daughter at primary school age looks up to you –…
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Please make sure your child’s Christmas is 11plushappy!
A huge motivational entrance test hello and a very short burst of happiness to remind you that holidays are the best learning present you can ask for – a gift of time to plan and weave in a few happy hours of intentional eleven-plus learning. Your child can make huge progress during these long days,…
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Are you half-term happy? Holidays are fantastic 11plus learning gifts!
A huge motivational entrance test hello and a very short burst of happiness to remind you the half-term is gifting you time to plan and weave in happy hours of intentional eleven-plus learning. Your child can make huge progress during these long days, as well as having a fun break. Please find two to three…
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Reason 5 of “5 reasons NOT to wait until Year 5 to start preparing your child for 11plus entrance tests”
Hello again. (Welcome, if this is your first time visiting). Leading on from Reason 4, today we come to the second big benefit, superboost 2, of starting with easier, younger material. (If you missed the last post, Reason 4, I’d encourage you to click back and read that first.) Do you remember in Reason 3…
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Reason 3 of “5 reasons NOT to wait until Year 5 to start preparing your child for 11plus entrance tests”
Today’s reason is a big one, often overlooked, even denied. Remember that if you missed the first two reasons, you can catch up on Reason 1 here, and Reason 2 here Reason 3, then, is that starting early, at least in Year 4, gives your child one of the biggest advantages when it comes to…
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Reason 2 of “5 Reasons NOT to wait until Year 5 to start preparing your child for 11plus exams”
Yesterday, we admitted the important truth that starting to prepare in Year 5 could be simply expecting too much for some children, given the amount of material to be covered versus the amount of time available. Today’s reason, Reason 2, is actually an extra one I realised while writing the reason 2 I was going…
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How a simple dice transformed my children’s 11plus learning and brought us closer together
Along with time, a second superhero of eleven plus success is going to be vocabulary. The more words you know, the more precise, nuanced and expansive are your thoughts. Leading on from this is the certainty that equipping your child with words, words and more words is going to help in at least six areas…