Don't do THIS if you are applying for an Occasional Place.

Occasional places at top, elite schools do come up. Especially with the way our world is right now, they will most likely come up even more than ever before. Children will leave top schools for a variety of reasons. And when children leave, it is up to the schools to fill their spaces.

This is when an Occasional Place will open up.

The problem with Occasional Places is this. The schools will give you very short notice. You see, whilst most parents will give the full term’s notice needed in order to leave a school, some will not. Some will need to leave immediately. So what happens then? Yes, you’ve guessed it. The schools will give very short notice to the parents.

Typically (in my experience) they will give parents one month notice of when the assessment will take place but they can give as little as one week of notice time.

Here at CMT, we are currently preparing several girls for an Occasional Place Assessment at a top girls’ school which will take place next week. Parents were given about a week of notice time.

If you know that you will be applying for an Occasional Place at a top school, you must start preparing your child straight away. The minute you submit that application, you must start preparing.

People will say to me…

‘But they might not even be called for an assessment?’

‘That would be a waste of time preparing them if the assessment doesn’t even happen?’

Wrong attitude completely.

If you want to apply for an Occasional Place, great! Then get to work taking the massive action needed in order to support your child to be in with a chance of at least showing their best learning in the assessment.

Passing an Occasional Place is hard. Do not leave it down to ‘luck’. Do not leave it down to, ‘Let’s see how he/she does on the day!’

If you are truly serious about securing a spot at your dream school, book your Sample Week today.