Is my child ready for their 4+ Assessments?

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The only person who truly knows the answer to this question is you.

I’m going to provide you with a series of questions for you to go and reflect on in relation to your child’s 4+ Assessments. If you answered no to most of them, your child is not ready for their 4+ Assessments and it is up to you (and only you) to put things in place to ensure that they are at the best possible level they can be to go in and pass.

Nobody in this world can guarantee that your child will pass their 4+ Assessments but what we can do is know deep in our hearts that we have done everything possible to send our children in to do the very best that they can in order to be offered a place at your target schools.

  1. Can your child hold their pen/pencil ‘correctly’? If they can’t, you still have some time to teach them to hold their pencil ‘correctly’.

  2. Can your child write their name? If they can’t, you must make sure that they can write their name before going into any 4+ Assessment (even if the schools will tell you that writing will not be assessed). HINT: That’s just not true.

  3. Can you child identify all of the colours? They have to be able to do this. If they can’t, teach them.

  4. Can your child create and complete patterns?

  5. Can your child recognise all of their phase 2 and phase 3 phonics single sounds? This part cannot be rushed so if your child is struggling with this currently, seek support of a professional who can help you with this.

  6. Can your child count to 10 (20 for some schools) ?

  7. Can your child identify numbers to 10/20?

  8. Can your child write numbers to 10/20?

  9. Can your child express themselves well in relation to their social and emotional development?

  10. Can your child interact well with other children?

  11. Can your child interact well with adults that they’ve never met before in their lives?

  12. Can your child sit and listen to a story without being distracted?

  13. Can your child answer questions about a story that has been read to them?

  14. Will your child be involved, engaged and enthusiastic?

  15. Can your child demonstrate that they are strong physically (gross and fine)?

  16. Can your child demonstrate maturity?

I could write 100 of these but I’ll stop at 16.

Take 10 minutes out of your day and just sit down with a hot coffee or tea and answer these questions truthfully.

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