Everything you need to know about the Habs Girls' 4+ Assessment
/Register by 20th November 2025.
December 16th-17th will be the first round (group activity sessions)
January 12th - 20th will be the second round (parent interview and child assessment)
January 26th - Offer day.
The Summer Open Event has now Sold Out. Follow this link to join their Waiting List. It’s doubtful someone will drop out and their waiting list will be very long but still worth joining it if you’d like to go.
On October 3rd, they will be holding another 4+ and 7+ Open Event and this one still has places.
I highly recommend you go and visit the school before applying for it. So please do ensure that you do go to this Open Event.
With only 40 places available to join their Reception year, I strongly recommend that you prepare your daughter thoroughly for this 4+ Assessment. I advise you to take the process seriously and to not say things like - ‘She’s only 3, come on!’
With hundreds and hundreds of applicants (think 500+), this 4+ Assessment will be fiercely competitive. What will give your daughter the slight edge over the other hundreds of girls applying for a place?
Habs clearly state that they have ‘high expectations’ of their girls so it’s clear that they have very high standards and that they will be looking for girls who are able to demonstrate these high standards in their 4+ Assessments.
Round 1 (Group activity session) lasts for 50 minutes. Your daughter will be placed in a large group and she will be assessed. ‘Children with birth months in close proximity are placed in the same group’ does not mean that children who are summer born will be assessed any differently to those who are autumn born. It just means what they’ve written - don’t take it to mean anything else.
Round 2 (parent interview and child assessment) will be only for the girls who pass their first round. Getting to this stage is something exceptional. Do not take it for granted and understand how well your daughter will have done in her first round in order to be called back to this stage. Habs calls this stage an ‘informal meeting’ and I assume they are referring to the parent interview here. Your daughter will be taking part in a 1:1 assessment whilst you have your informal meeting with the head teacher and senior teachers.
Habs girls does not have a sibling policy.
Habs girls is adamant that ‘no tutoring or preparation is needed’.
Up to you if you listen to that.
