Manor Lodge - The most misunderstood 4+ school
/When parents contact me and tell me that their child will be attending the 4+ Assessment at Manor Lodge (2026 entry) and they’ve done no preparation for it, it leaves me very confused.
You do realise that this 4+ Assessment is Friday October 17th 2025? Meaning you only have 1 and a half months to finish preparing your child for this 4+ Assessment.
I’m always very surprised that this is one of the schools that parents are least worried about preparing their child for.
Well, you should be worried. And if you’re not, I guess you just think that you’ll just send your child in and they’ll be offered a place. It does not work that way.
Manor Lodge is a tough 4+ Assessment to pass for two reasons.
It is a very popular school and hundreds of parents (500+) will be sitting their child for their 4+ Assessment here.
Competition will be fierce in terms of the calibre of students that your child will be up against.
I know how hard it is to pass the 4+ Assessment at this school. I’ve spoken to hundreds of parents who have called me to tell me that their child did not pass their 4+ Assessment at this school. Students that we are now supporting with their 7+/11+.
Myself and my team have personally been preparing our youngest students for Manor Lodge for many, many years and we have incredible success year after year. There’s a reason for that. We know the school well- very well. And we know exactly what they are looking for.
I hear words thrown around such as 'devastated’, ‘disappointed’ and ‘heart-broken’ when clients tell me that their child did not pass the Manor Lodge Assessment. Yet when I asked them how long they had been preparing their child for the assessment, they tell me that they didn’t or they tell me that their nursery prepared them. A nursery alone cannot prepare a child to pass any 4+ Assessment. Understand this.
If you want your child to pass the Manor Lodge 4+ Assessment, your child does need at least 12 months of Assessment preparation either by yourself or by a teacher who has knowledge of the 4+ Assessment at this school and who has had real and actual results at supporting students to pass their 4+ Assessment at this school.
So many of you do not understand the 4+ Assessment process at Manor Lodge. You don’t understand how fiercely competitive it will be. You don’t understand the sheer volume of parents applying for this school (you’ll see this on assessment day!). You don’t understand that if your child is not ready for their 4+ Assessment, they will simply not pass.
If you are preparing for Manor Lodge for 2027 entry and beyond, join our Waiting List today (the fee will count as your registration fee when we get started)
