You cannot have a 'buffet' selection of teachers when preparing for an assessment.

It doesn’t work.

You are wasting your money.

You are over complicating an already very complicated process.

You will not have the results that you want or that you think you will have.

This happens every year to me - especially with the 7+. Clients will reach out and want to work with me and then they will have a ‘freak out’ moment. They will see that little Jane down the road has an in person tutor coming three to four times a week. They will see that little Timmy down the road is going to a 7+ Saturday class for 4 hours every week.

It’s that ‘FOMO’ moment.

‘If they’re doing it, maybe I should be doing it too?’ And ultimately, we want the very best for our children. And I’m not judging at all, you can obviously do what you want to do. I’m just speaking to you through my experience of doing this for over 16 years.

Pick one teacher and that’s it. Commit to that one teacher. Everything else is noise. Everything else is a distraction.

When I was new at this, one of my clients asked me to teach her child English and she told me that she would get an in person teacher for maths because her child ‘just could not focus!’. Absolute nonsense. Her child was doing amazingly in both maths and English online with me. It was such a mess. My client gave myself and this other teacher emails to exchange with each other. It was such a waste of time. At one point, I wasn’t happy with the level of maths his maths teacher was setting him and it became a huge tension between all of us. He did not pass his 7+ Assessments.

This year, I’ve had students go to various 7+ camps over the summer and now a few clients have told me that they are working with multiple teachers including myself.

It doesn’t work.

It’s not a ‘buffet of teachers’ process.

Choose one teacher, commit to them and go all in.

Stop comparing yourself to others. Stop listening to the opinions of ‘well meaning’ neighbours.

Just prepare your child to the best of your ability with one teacher.

That is all.