There will be THOSE THAT PASS and THOSE WHO DO NOT.

And if you don’t like that, then do not send your child to a 4+ assessment.

I chose not to send my son to a 4+ assessment (he is currently 3.5 years old and will be 4 in July). He would have also been 2026 entry. Not because I was afraid of him not passing (I knew that would be a possibility!) but because I will be home educating him at least in his early years.

I get it though. I take rejection very personally when it comes to my boy - and I know many of you (in fact most of you) do too.

Careful.

I see some rather unpleasant sights at the moment.

I also see humility. I see parents whose children have not passed their 4+ assessments and they take it as a learning experience. They don’t take it personally. There isn’t all this ego around it as I see around some of you. I also see humility from some of you whose children have passed but you don’t go around boasting about it. You keep it to yourselves and this is how it should be- to be quite frank.

Some of you are taking the rejection very personally.

You take it to mean that there is something wrong with your child. There is not.

You are wrong there. There is absolutely nothing ‘wrong’ with your 3 or 4 year old child.

It’s just that this is a competition.

A very complex and difficult competition and sadly one that some of you (most of you) don’t really care about trying to understand.

I will continue to try my best to teach you about it and if you want to listen to me, you will learn more about it and at the very least be empowered by having that knowledge.

Preparing your child to the best of your ability is the best way to guarantee success in the 4+ assessment process.

Can you guarantee that your child will pass? Of course not.

That will be up to your child and how they do on the day. Will they meet the threshold percentage to pass the assessment that they attended? Only they can do that.

But they can only do that by being supported with having the skills that they need to be able to demonstrate in order to ultimately be able to pass and be offered a place.