6 ways to guarantee success in the Forest 4+ Assessment
/So you have your heart set on Forest Prep School. It is a school that you have visited and it is one that you love. Now what?
You have about 3 months left until your child’s 4+ Assessment.
If your child truly ready?
With 64 places available to join Forest in Reception, perhaps you are thinking your child will be ‘just fine’ after all 64 is a rather large amount of children being offered places at this school. Not really.
With hundreds upon hundreds of children applying for this sought after school, you want to ensure that your child is ready for this 4+ Assessment.
Forest actually ‘request that you do not prepare your child for their 4+ Assessment'.’
90% of parents will follow this request. Most of these parents will not be successful in being offered a place at this school.
I know this for a fact. This is not just my opinion.
You do as you wish.
Here are 6 ways to guarantee success in the Forest 4+ Assessment.
Ensure your child is able to hold their pencil ‘correctly’. Make sure that they are excellent at drawing pictures (detailed and precise and follow the instruction given) and make sure that your child is able to write their name with accuracy and precision and with the correct letter formation.
Ensure that your child is able to identify all colours and shapes. Make sure your child is able to complete a pattern.
Ensure that your child knows all of their phase 2 and 3 phonics (doesn’t matter which phonics programme your use). Your child should be decoding by the time of the assessment and read simple cvc words. Your child should know rhyming words and how to identify them within a series of other words. Eg. Which word rhymes with cat?
Ensure that your child is able to count (at least to 10). Make sure that your child is able to identify numbers and that your child can do simple addition and subtraction.
Ensure that your child is able to interact with other children and adults. Make sure that they know how to share and take turns. Social and emotional questioning is very important at this school. If you don’t know what this is, book your Additional Consultation with me today and I will support you with this.
Ensure that your child is able to settle quickly when you drop them off to this assessment. We have hundreds of strategies to support our students to be able to do this!
We are looking for at least 75% as an overall percentage to pass this 4+ Assessment.
Very high expectations indeed.
Last year ALL of our students that we prepared were offered a place at Forest!
Need further support, book your Sample lesson and Sample Week today.
