Sabotaging your NLCS 4+ Assessment Preparation?
/So many parents have no idea what to expect when they sign up to send their daughter to the 4+ Assessment at NLCS.
There are so many comments online that literally say how wonderful the 4+ Assessment is and parents saying that their daughters had an amazing time.
Listen, no one cares that your daughter had a great time at her NLCS 4+ Assessment. No one. Who actually cares? Why are people even talking about that?
I read a comment that said something like, ‘Why do I keep reading that the 4+ Assessments are traumatic and stressful? My daughter had an amazing time at her 4+ Assessment.’
Ok, but was she successful?
Funny, how these people commenting on mumsnet rarely reveal if their children passed or not.
Wonder why that is!
And also who is telling you that the 4+ Assessments are traumatic and stressful? It should never be traumatic and stressful for a 3 year old. I’ve never heard this from anyone. Ever. Have I heard of children not wanting to go into a 4+ assessment? Of course! But I also hear of children not wanting to go to nursery or pre-school every… single… day.
Perhaps it is traumatic and stressful for the parents who are unsuccessful at securing a place at any of their target schools?
Because of these comments and other people literally telling you not to prepare your daughters for their 4+ Assessment at NLCS, you might naively think that this is the case. It’s not your fault. If you’ve never been through the process, how on earth would you know?
Well, let me tell you this, if you don’t prepare your daughters properly for their 4+ Assessments at NLCS and if you don’t take the process seriously, then don’t expect to have any sort of success. Because you will not.
NLCS receives over 500 applications every single year for the 4+ Assessment.
With only 40 places available, your daughter will have a 1:12 chance of passing her first round.
If she passes the first round, she will have a better chance of passing the second round as the ratio lowers to about 1:4. Passing the first round is something exceptional!
You could sabotage your NLCS 4+ Assessment preparation if you read ridiculous comments online and believe them. You could sabotage your NLCS 4+ Assessment preparation if you believe that your daughter’s nursery alone can prepare her for her 4+ Assessment. You could sabotage your NLCS 4+ Assessment preparation if you don’t thoroughly cover all areas of the EYFS curriculum that will be assessed in both rounds thoroughly and daily in the lead up to the assessment (at least 4 terms before is my recommendation).
If you want to be successful in the NLCS 4+ Assessment, work with a teacher who has been preparing girls for this assessment for over 2 decades. Work with a teacher who has real and actual experience of supporting girls to pass their 4+ Assessment at NLCS. Work with a teacher who knows exactly what NLCS are even looking for and knows exactly about who the girls are who pass and who the girls are who do not.
