Martha - A 4+ Assessment Success Story.

Martha’s parents contacted me in May 2024. They were preparing her for her 4+ and their top school of choice was Highgate. Martha’s parents were both very unsure about the online lessons for their daughter and in fact after our Sample lesson, Martha’s mother signed her up with a different teacher to have in person lessons. For 3 months, they took their daughter to this teacher’s house for her weekly lessons. It was incredibly inconvenient for them (she lived 30 minutes for them and with traffic it would sometimes take up to 50 minutes to get there) and they found her pace to be slow. This teacher had no experience with the 4+ Assessments but she was a very qualified EYFS teacher. I told them that this would not cut it and that they needed to do more to help Martha to get into Highgate.

From August 2024, Martha’s parents started tuition with me. We went all in and Martha was seeing me 2-3 times per week.

At the start, she was very shy and very reserved. She didn’t want to give me much eye contact and didn’t want to directly answer my questions. Instead she would whisper the answer to her mummy or daddy - they had a stunning relationship. Her mother would sometimes get very frustrated (she would tell me after the lessons) and she desperately wanted Martha to make more progress but her father insisted that they persevere. They did.

Each week, Martha would meet with me. Each week, we worked on her confidence and all of the 7 areas of the EYFS curriculum. The progress she made was out of this world. By October of 2024, she was writing beautifully, drawing with precision, cutting amazingly well, completing her play doh tasks well and she was giving me eye contact and answering my questions. Our lessons were filled with laughter. We all very much looked forward to them. I coached Martha about what to expect in her 4+ Assessments and she did exceptionally well.

She applied for NLCS, South Hampstead, Queens College, Northbridge Prep, Highgate and Notting Hill Prep.

She was unwell for her South Hampstead 4+ Assessment and did not pass.

She did not pass NLCS.

She was successful to all of her other target schools and she will be attending Highgate in September 2025.

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