More Power To Your Glendower 4+ Assessment Preparation!
/We are preparing 8 girls for their 4+ Assessment at Glendower this year (2027 entry). We are all working very hard to ensure that our girls are ready and able to go into their Glendower 4+ Assessment at SHINE.
Last week, one of my clients said to me, “It’s like a show isn’t it? They have to go in and perform!”
Obviously she was talking about the 4+ Assessments! And she was absolutely spot on.
If your child will be attending the Glendower 4+ Assessment is January 2026 for September 2027 entry, she’d better be ready to go in and give the performance of a lifetime! She’d better be ready to go in with energy, enthusiasm and focus. And it is my hope that you will be preparing her very well to be able to go in and do this.
In order to pass the Glendower 4+ Assessment, your daughter will demonstrate the following:
1. Social Maturity
This just means that she will go in calmly, follow the instructions perfectly, give eye contact to the several examiners observing her, not cry when you drop her off or at any point during the assessment and listen beautifully.
Not much expected! :)
We support and prepare our girls to be able to understand exactly how to go in and show the social maturity that will be expected of them.
2. Readiness to learn in a group situation
As your daughter will be 1/6 girls being assessed, it is obvious that she will be expected to work well as part of a group. This means listening well to others as they talk and responding accordingly, sharing, taking turns, being polite, showing authority but also letting others have a voice.
Our Curriculum Programmes support our girls to understand how to work beautifully as part of a group, we support our girls to develop their listening skills, and we support our girls to understand how to show independence too!
3. Cooperation
Your daughter will cooperate well as in she will listen to what is asked and do it. Simple.
4. Flexibility
In your daughter’s Glendower 4+ Assessment, she will be asked to move from one activity to another and it will be expected that she does this without resistance and without getting upset about it.
Our girls develop their focus skills over the course of 12-18 months learning with us in our exceptional Curriculum Programmes.
5. A ‘can do’ approach
Your daughter will show that she wants to do everything that she is asked to do. There will be no resistance shown.
6. Communication
Your daughter will show that she is able to communicate well with the examiners in the room and with the other children in the room. She will answer all of the questions being asked to a very high standard. She will give a full sentence and extend her ideas. She doesn’t need to be overly loud or extroverted. Quiet and introverted children can also demonstrate superb communication.
7. Numeracy skills
Your daughter will have excellent numeracy skills and will have covered a broad and vast maths curriculum before setting foot in the Glendower 4+ Assessment.
8. Letter recognition
Your daughter will know all of her single sounds and will be blending before her Glendower 4+ Assessment. She may also identify certain digraphs. Your daughter will be able to write all the letters of the alphabet correctly with correct letter formation and appropriate sizing. We don’t know which letters will come up so we prepare for all of them!
9. Ability to follow instructions
Your daughter will follow instructions perfectly - basically she will do everything that she is asked to do straight away!
Remember that there are only 40 places available at Glendower!
Remember that your daughter will be 1 of hundreds and hundreds of girls whose parents desperately want them to attend this school.
Preparing for the 4+ at Glendower? Book your Sample Lesson and Sample Week today and see how we can support you to support your daughter to the best of your ability to have the success that she deserves to have in this 4+ assessment.
If the times above don’t work for you, join our Curriculum Acceleration Programme.
