3 insights from my meeting with a top London Nursery chain
/Last week I was invited to meet with the CEO of a top London Nursery chain and the head of teaching.
Having worked at several top nurseries for many years myself, I know exactly what goes on in a nursery setting.
Many of you do not.
I personally speak to hundreds of parents every single month and many of you have the belief that sending your child to a ‘great’ nursery or pre-prep is enough to have the success you wish to have at your target schools for your child’s 4+ Assessments.
You can hold onto this belief if you’d like. After all, you are spending thousands of your pounds to send your child to these top London nurseries or pre-preps. But it is important to understand the truth.
A nursery alone cannot prepare your child to be successful in their 4+ Assessments.
Perhaps their ‘amazing’ results will have you believe otherwise. Just remember that behind each nursery or pre-prep result is a team of teachers and parents working very hard behind the scene to ensure that the child who has been successful was able to have that success.
Please do not just assume that those results are just the nurseries. They most likely are not. And don’t assume that these nurseries have some sort of magical connection to the schools that you are applying to. They do not.
I am still to hear back from this nursery regarding our possible new working arrangement but in the meantime let me share with you 3 insights from this meeting.
They are not 4+ Assessment experts.
Neither do they market themselves to be. So why do so many parents believe that just sending their child here will be enough to have them perfectly ready for their 4+ Assessments?
They do not have the capacity to prepare individual children for their 4+ Assessments.
The CEO said it himself - his staff have so much going on.
They haven’t had the results they would like.
The whole point of the meeting was to have support from someone who has had incredible results.
Ultimately, for your child to be truly ready for their 4+ Assessments, they WILL need individual support. Either from yourself or from a teacher who is an expert in the 4+ Assessments.
Sure, you can send them to one of these ‘top nurseries’ but it really won’t make any difference if you are not doing the work needed every single day to support your child to pass their 4+ Assessments at these top schools.
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