Tag: grammar school entrance test
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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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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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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
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It’s okay to feel lost
You’re teaching your child nearly every day and it is working. You are making a difference. You are helping them. This is hopefully about adventure, not pressure. Challenge, not problem. Sometimes, you will be lost. You must be lost. It’s required. The brilliant author Seth Godin says it marvellously that true learning requires ‘tension and…
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It’s okay to feel lost
You’re teaching your child nearly every day and it is working. You are making a difference. You are helping them. This is hopefully about adventure, not pressure. Challenge, not problem. Sometimes, you will be lost. You must be lost. It’s required. The brilliant author Seth Godin says it marvellously that true learning requires ‘tension and…
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Go Backwards Technique – score higher in 11plus practice tests and writing
“You can steer yourself any direction you choose.” Dr Seuss The Go Backwards technique is an ally of the Go Forwards technique. Very simply, do the test until finished, no matter how long it takes.How long did it take? As with yesterday’s Go Forwards Technique, celebrate this – you have a benchmark to start from.…
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Go Forwards technique: How to use time to get better scores in 11plus practice tests
“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” T.S.Eliot Happy Classroom 3 (Part 3 of a series on how time helps your child prepare and pass.) The Go Forwards technique has one aim: increase the number of questionsyour child can answer within the time set by…