One-to-One Preparation for the Medway Test 11+ and Y6 SATs

Year 4, or at least Year 5.

Independent Schools will have been teaching reasoning skills for the 11+ at least two years prior to the Medway Test, however these are not required for the National Curriculum and so they are not taught in state-funded primary schools.   This places pupils from state-funded schools at a distinct disadvantage.

It is no surprise, then, that pupils from Independent Schools, and those who have been privately tutored, tend to do better at the Medway Test 11+, and prepared candidates secure a higher proportion of Grammar School places.

In no other walk of life would you deliberately go into a test unprepared.

The more time that a child has to absorb and practise new learning, the more confident and able they will be, and the less stressful they will find assessments and tests.

Yes, we tutor individuals with neuro diversities, including ADHD and Autism.

Everyone is unique.

For neuro-minorities, a standardised school classroom lesson creates frustrations, for both teacher and pupil, as the individual doesn’t “fit” the plan for the majority.   The more “non-standard” individuals in a class, the harder it is to manage it for all.

One-to-one tuition allows the flexibility and dynamism that suits the individual, rather than the classroom teacher, and allows the individual to be the majority. 

Our Shangri-La is to find a way that is engaging and which allows the individual flexibility and scope for their imagination to roam – sometimes to fly off at a tangent, which is good – to satisfy that present thought and to coax them back to also make progress towards an underlying objective or learning goal.

People with neuro diversities respond better to individual treatment and consideration, and attain better outcomes.

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We don't compromise.   We only offer one-to-one tuition focussed entirely on your child.

During the Coronavirus Pandemic, we are only offering online one-to-one tuition.

This is because a tutor going from house-to-house risks becoming a community "Super-Spreader" for Covid.   We feel that this is socially unacceptable.

We consider that it is more responsible to provide quality tuition online than to run those risks with the community.

She absolutely can !

She will sit the same 11+ tests with the same thresholds, however special arrangements might be made to be able to access the test ‘on a level playing field’.   

You should discuss your child’s circumstances with your school’s Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENCO) as early as possible to facilitate the application to the Test administrators.

A SEND candidate who achieves the required threshold scores in the Test is guaranteed a place at Grammar School, as places are allocated to SEND candidates before others (check the published admission policy on the website of your desired Grammar School).

The 11+ is now staged right at the beginning of Year 6.   Not only is there no school time then to prepare for the test, but children need some time at the start of term to settle down, reacquaint with their friends and peers and get their heads back into academic learning mode.

If it is possible to book your holiday earlier, it would help your daughter to finalise her preparation for her 11+ in the run-up to the end of August and the start of the new school year.   She will be able to ‘hit the ground running’ and this is a distinct advantage over entering the 11+ still trying to cognitively and emotionally adjust from the holiday.