A nursery or pre- prep alone is not responsible for the success of your child in their 4+.

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Those of you who believe that a nursery or pre- prep should take the full responsibility of preparing your child for their 4+ assessments have a deep misunderstanding of what a nursery is.

A deep misunderstanding of the amount of children that need to be looked after by one human being.

A deep misunderstanding about the role of the EYFS practitioner.

Do you realise they have a ratio of 1:5 in the over 2’s category and a ratio of 1:13 in the over 3’s category. Look at those ratios again!

So if your child is over 3, their ratio will be 1:13. Unless you have a qualified teacher working in your setting and in that case it will be a 1:8 ratio.

I don’t know about you but that’s a huge ask on one human being.

To prepare your child to be ready for their 4+ Assessments when they have your child plus another 12 to be teaching/ looking after.

Have a look at just some of the expectations of an early years practitioner. There was a full two pages of expectations in the job specification that I analysed.

  • Provide care and support to all students and parents

  • Take responsibility for the health and safety of all pupils

  • Plan activities and assess all children

  • Aid with the overall development of all pupils

  • Take groups of children on educational visits

  • Setting out equipment in interesting ways and clearing away after use

  • Write weekly lessons plans and evaluate them each week

  • Carry out play ground and lunch time duties

All for a starting salary of 24k-30k (if you’re lucky!).

And yet, the majority of you continue to tell me that it is up to your child’s nursery to prepare your child to go in and pass their 4+ Assessment. Well, it isn’t! Understand that well. Or you will be deeply disappointed.

Choose a nursery or pre-prep that you love. Then you take on the full responsibility of teaching your child. I don’t really care how you do it. But understand this well. It is on you to prepare your child for the 4+. No one else. Why should anyone else care more about the success of your child than you? They won’t. Ever.

Are you ready to re-think this? I hope so! 

Do you know how many parents I’ve spoken to after the 4+ whose children were not successful and who blamed it on their child’s nursery or pre-prep. Can you guess what I told them? 

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