Parents have been so 'proud' to tell me this one sentence...

Are you ready for it.

Drum Roll please…

‘We have done no tutoring in preparation for these 4+ assessments.’

Said with a hint of superiority.

Said with a hint of ‘I told you so!’

Listen up.

So your child has passed their 1st round at a 4+ assessment?

Congratulations.

Take a moment to celebrate and then get to work.

Oh but hang on, you supposedly did no work to prep your child for the 1st round?

So now, you most likely believe that you have to exert the minimum effort (ie. do nothing) to prepare your child for their second round?

Well, you would be so incredibly wrong.

And so many of you will want to prove me wrong.

And that’s just really, really sad.

Because, you see, what we do goes far beyond preparing for a 4+ assessment.

What we do, is prepare our students to be lifelong lovers of learning. We prepare our students from such a young age to be able to write, read and to be very advanced with their maths. And do you know what? Most of our clients continue long after the 4+ assessments have completed.

So if you’ve truly done nothing to prepare your child for their 4+ assessments, just keep it to yourself and stop undermining the efforts of all of the parents out there who have put in the work. Who have woken up each morning to print the resources for their children, who have thought carefully about the resources they want each month to support their children with their learning and who have truly supported their children to go in and shine in their 4+ assessments.

Because ultimately these are assessments.

Ultimately these top schools will choose the children who score the highest.

Who will score the highest?

The child who can answer questions exceptionally well or the one who cannot?

The child who can hold their pencil and write or the one who cannot?

The child who can focus beautifully whilst the teacher is reading or the one who cannot?

Oh please, wake up and see that this is a competition. See that your child must be prepared. If not by me, then by you.