Do not let this dent your confidence.

I see this year after year after year and it is the hardest thing for me as a teacher and as the owner of this business.

Parents feeling sad, angry, shocked, disappointed and deeply frustrated at the fact that their child hasn’t been offered a place at Manor Lodge.

Yesterday, I spent most of my day on the phone (after having taught my 8 lessons for the day).

We had mostly very positive results yesterday. I’m not sharing them just yet because I want to give my dear clients the time and space to process the results. But what I will share is that this year, we prepared 8 children for the Manor Lodge 4+ assessment.

You see, it’s very important to understand very clearly that children will be rejected in this process of assessment preparation.

And it’s important to understand even better that we, as parents do not take rejection well. Especially when it comes to our children. I am the same.

We take it very personally. We make it mean things that it simply doesn’t mean and we let rejection get us down. Naturally, it will get you down. These are our precious children that we are talking about.

So I invite you to take the time to mourn the results - if your result was a negative one. I invite you to take a couple of weeks to really digest what has happened and then I invite you to put it to one side and put your focus 100% onto the other assessments that your child has coming up. Because you see, there is nothing you can now do about a result. But there is everything you can do about future assessments.

If you received a positive result, I invite you to not tell others that you did nothing to prepare for this assessment. Speak honestly. You put in the work. Because it’s just mean and unkind to go around telling people that all you did was ‘send your child in to play in the forest’ when that is a complete lie.

What is done, can’t be undone. What is coming up in the future, is 100% in your control.

For some of you, this is a wake up call. A reality check. A deeper understanding of this 4+ process. Not all applicants will pass unfortunately. That’s the nature of an assessment.

You have 2-3 beautiful months to go all in and prepare your child for their upcoming assessments. You have 2-3 months to fully understand the assessment processes at the schools that you are applying to and to fully understand what exactly is expected of your child in order to be in with a chance of being offered a place at your dream schools.

Our Curriculum Programme will be launching today as you are out of time to join us for our programme with weekly tuition. There is far too much to cover and you have to understand that his cannot be done with 2-3 months. What can be done, however is that you can take full ownership of this process and ensure that you have covered as much of the curriculum as possible with your child so that they can go in to any upcoming assessment and have the highest possible chances for success.

I see you and I understand your frustration. I am here for you every step of the way.