The crazy truth about my summer born students and the 4+ Assessments

In the last 4 years (since moving exclusively online), we have supported 302 students to prepare for entrance exams. We have supported thousands in the last 16 years. We are still in the relatively early stages of this incredible business and I’m so proud of every single one of these students and I’m so proud of what I’ve created and what myself and my very small team of teachers have been able to accomplish in these 4 years. As we continue to grow as a team, I have no doubt that we will support hundreds more students in these next 4 years and have even more exceptional results.

I’ve been having a lot of conversations with parents lately and a lot of these conversations revolve around their summer born children.

They are filled with excuses and if they’re not making excuses they are merely telling me their thoughts and beliefs about their summer born children. They believe these thoughts to be facts. But they are not facts, they are merely thoughts. And they are thoughts that will not serve them to achieve what they are hoping to achieve – the success of being offered a place at their most desired schools at 4+.

 So here’s the crazy truth for you.

 I created a simple table with the names of all of my students, their dates of birth and the date in which they joined CMT.

 The summer born children (I classify them as children born between June – August) have historically been the ones who had the least time preparing for the 4+. They were also the ones who were least successful (compared to their autumn/winter born peers).

 Now, I’m sure most of you will say to me – ‘They weren’t as successful because they are summer born.’

Absolutely not.

 They weren’t as successful because they didn’t have as much preparation time as their autumn/winter born peers.

 This is crazy to me.

 So you have a summer born child? Start a year earlier than someone with an autumn/winter born child. My son is summer born. Guess what?

I don’t care.

It means nothing to me.

He will do just as well, if not better than his autumn/winter born peers. Just keep watching!

 Did you know there is such a thing as parents planning their pregnancies so that they only have autumn/winter born children? I didn’t. I do now.

 Have a summer born child? Start the learning process with us as early as you can. We currently work with 16 and 17 month old children preparing them for their 4+ Assessments (they’re not necessarily summer born just fyi).

Yes, that’s right and I’m extremely proud of what we do.

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