'We became aware later' is a thought that will hold you back when it comes to assessment success.
/I hear this one all the time in our enquiries and in conversations that we have with parents every single day.
It seems like an innocent thought and it is.
But it will hold you back when it comes to future assessment success.
You see, if you want to have success in any assessment at a top, elite inner or outer London school, you need to start preparing your child early.
Whether you like this or not.
It is a fact.
Becoming aware of something later means that it wasn’t on your mind earlier on. It means that perhaps you were thinking something like…
‘He/she is only 2/3/4/insert whatever age you want!’
‘He/she should just be a child!’
‘What more can they do than just play?’
‘When the time is right, he/she will just get it!’
Well, I’m here to tell you that learning doesn’t work that way.
I believe that all children would benefit from our amazing bespoke and tailored curriculum programmes regardless of whether or not they will be attending an assessment.
My son has been studying his very own curriculum programme since he was 17 months old. I have no intention of sending him to one of these schools. Not yet anyway. It doesn’t mean that I might not change my mind at 7/10/11/13/16. Whatever. Who know what life will throw at us? Who knows if I will want him in a school like St. Paul’s or Westminster later down the line.
And if I choose to, guess what?
He’d better be prepared.
That’s the way I like to think about it anyway.
So if you did ‘become aware later’, please don’t be hard on yourself. Just make a decision. Make a decision to simply start.
Get started and support your child every step of the way with their learning.
Watch them grow. Watch them laugh. Watch them explore. Watch them engage.
It really is a beautiful thing.
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