Contradictory views about the Habs' Boys' 4+ Assessment.
/Habs’ Boys’ School is a very popular school that we prepare our boys to be wildly successful in here at CMT.
It is a much loved school and I personally have friends who send their sons to Habs and I personally have hundreds of clients who I have supported over the last 2 decades who send their sons to Habs. Honestly, to this day, I’ve not heard negativity about this school. Which truly is a testament to them!
They offer approx. 40 places but this year it was far more than that. Ask the school directly how many places will be available this year (2027 entry). Although it was far more than 40, Habs did not disclose this until after the 4+ assessments to parents of boys who were offered a place (2026 entry)
With the applicants in their hundreds, you want to be laser sharp aware of the high expectations of your son and prepare him and support him accordingly. Prepare him and support him to go in and truly shine in this 4+ assessment (if it is truly a school that you want for your son).
There are a lot of contradictory views to mine about the Habs’ Boys’ 4+ assessment and I wanted to truly shine a light on some of these so that if you are preparing your son for his assessment for Habs’ Boys’ for 2027 and beyond that you are laser sharp aware of what will actually be expected of your son and how to really prepare him to the best of your ability.
Habs themselves ‘strongly recommend’ against tutoring which I truly find fascinating considering that each year at least 1/4 of their cohort have been prepared by us! Also, I have only ever spoken highly about Habs. They’re not speaking very highly of what I do are they? To add to this - I also continue to teach boys long after they have got in at 4+ who attend Habs!
There are a lot of contradictory views to mine about the Habs’ Boys’ 4+ assessment and I wanted to truly shine a light on some of these so that if you are preparing your son for his assessment for Habs’ Boys’ for 2028 and beyond that you are laser sharp aware of what will actually be expected of your son and how to really prepare him to the best of your ability.
There are two schools of thought when it comes to this very, very popular boys’ school.
Thorough preparation is needed.
Just send my boy in to play (after all it is a play based assessment)
Interesting then that in this play based assessment our boys were asked to do the following (obviously I’m not giving you a full list but just a flavour for you):
Counting and identifying numbers to 20
Drawing
Geometry
Writing
Lego
Reading
Listening
Vocabulary
Drawing
Phonics
Obviously my school of thought is that thorough prep is needed for the Habs’ Boys’ 4+ assessment. And just to be crystal clear - what I mean by this is 12 months. We are not miracle workers here. We can do our very best and we always will do. But a 12 month curriculum needs to be covered for this school (and many others!).
So, you decide if you want to ‘send your boy in to play’ and let me know if he is able to do all of the above (which is a fraction of what came up).
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