Can a child who ‘doesn’t listen’ pass a 4+ assessment at a top, elite school?
/No, of course not.
That’s obvious isn’t it?
A child who ‘doesn’t listen’ will go into a 4+ assessment and do something like this…
They will enter the room and not hear or listen to the instructions given by the assessor/s. For example, let’s say that the assessor asks this child, let’s call him Gabriel, to go to the lego table and take a seat. Little Gabriel decides to go to the table that he likes the look of – let’s say for example that he wants to play with the construction.
He completely ignores the request of the assessor. You can think for yourselves how this would go down.
Next little Gabriel is asked to move from the construction table and go to the maths table. This time he listens and he takes a seat. The assessor asks his to point to the number 3 and Gabriel points to the number 5 (even though he knows full well which one is the number 3). The assessor asks him to count the objects and instead he grabs one of the objects and throws it to the other side of the room.
You can think for yourselves how this would go down.
Gabriel is then asked to complete a puzzle that has been laid out on the floor and he simply looks at the assessor and says ‘No!’.
You can think for yourselves how this would go down.
These are not made up examples, just by the way.
Your child needs to demonstrate superb listening skills to be in with a chance of passing a 4+ assessment at a top, elite school. We support our students every single day to develop their listening skills and to understand what is expected of them when it comes to their listening skills in the 4+ assessments that they will be attending.
Also, I don’t believe that children simply ‘don’t listen’. It’s not a character trait that they are born with!
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