Is your child ready for the Manor Lodge 4+ Assessment?
/Many parents will have done little to no preparation for the upcoming 4+ assessment at Manor Lodge which is in 14 days time (Friday October 16th 2026)
I had a parent contact me last week to ask me if I could prepare her child for Manor Lodge (2027 entry). I was extremely confused (and clearly she was too!).
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 will be sending their child for their 4+ Assessment here. Online you will find numbers thrown around like 200 and 300 applying but I believe it to be far more than this.
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 us that their child did not pass the Manor Lodge 4+ 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.
60 places.
Hundreds of applicants.
Many will be waitlisted.
The majority of our clients here at CMT will pay the deposit to have this school as a back up and then they will reject it to send their children to the likes of Habs or NLCS. Never have I ever had a parent choose Manor Lodge over schools like those.
All the best to all of our amazing students who will be attending the Manor Lodge 4+ Assessment in 2 weeks time. They will be your competition and the majority of our students have completed at least 9 months of my CMT Curriculum Programme by this point.
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