Why Your 4+ Prep May Not Be Working: Just 3 Months to Go!

But is it really 3 months though?

I used to work over Christmas but I don’t anymore.

Teachers of my calibre and quality will not be working over Christmas. They will be having a well- deserved rest after a year of working incredibly hard.

That’s what I will be doing anyway. I will be taking a full 4 weeks off to be with my family and to have quality time with them.

Some of my clients (very few) will continue with their Curriculum Acceleration Programme and will continue to have ongoing access to me but they will not be having lessons each week.

So at best, if you start now, you will have 8 weeks of lessons/curriculum support to prepare your child for their 4+ Assessment. This is NOT enough time.

Well actually it really depends developmentally where your child is at.

I used to offer lastminute.com Assessment prep and let me tell that the children that I tried to support were not where they needed to be at the point of starting.

Let me tell you what would happen.

I would be working with clients who would be highly stressed, highly anxious and highly angry. And guess who they would be angry with?

Well, let me tell you something else.

The only person they should have been angry with would have been themselves.

I am receiving a flurry of enquiries from parents who have their child’s 4+ Assessment for 2027 entry and I do not offer this anymore.

It does not align with my programme. It does not align with my values. It does not align with what I know child development to be.

And what is the first thing these parents tell me. They tell me where their child goes to Nursery or Pre - School. Well, great. Clearly they have believed to this point that their child’s nursery or pre-school is enough to prepare them for entry to a prestigious school. So carry on then.

We are busy preparing children who have been with us for nearly 12 months by the point of writing this. We have some students who have been with us for nearly 18 months.

Their parents understood clearly how child development works. And they have put in hundreds and hundreds of hours of their own time and effort to support their children to have the success that they will inevitably have.

Oh and guess what? Their children (most of them anyway) also went (and still go to) these ‘top’ pre schools and nurseries that many of you go on about.

Preparing for 2028 entry and beyond? The time to apply to join the CMT Waiting List is now.

Your place is no longer guaranteed and your answers will need to align to my values and my vision.