Ok, so DS has his first one of these next week. What on earth do the kids get asked? How should they dress - is smart casual not smart enough? Am I over thinking this? You know it, but post anyway.
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Tikitikitembo ·
10/11/2010 18:11
I have been trying to recall :
What book are you reading and what do you think of it ? What do you want to be when you grow up ? What would you do if you won a million pounds ? What charity is important to you and why ? If you could invent somthing what would it be ? What are you really good at ? What have you achieved that made you feel really proud ? Those are a few that I have heard of. 
Good luck, as long as a child is fairly personable they will be very happy to have them.
Caoimhe ·
10/11/2010 18:32
Ds wore his uniform - I think all the children did (well, except for the poor soul in the very strange cords).
Different schools asked different questions. One was quite focussed on academic stuff and another asked about his activities outside school.
"Is this your first choice school?" was always asked!!
MrsGuyOfGisbourne ·
10/11/2010 19:18
Only did 10+, not 11+ - have heard they sometimes ask currenty-affairs type questions @ 11+ - not too deep but at least the kid should know basics - eg who is president of the US, PM etc, and that some miners were rescued from underground in a Chilean mine etc 
. Agree about school uniform - we kept a specially clean jumper in the car not to be used other than for the interviews so at least he was vaguely respectably dressed. Again, maybe different at 11+, but at 10+ the conversation meandered - probably to make it difficult to prep for. They really tried to make the child at ease - and am sure your DC is the sparky type who will make them laugh just by being naturally hims/her self (in the nicest possible way). At one school, there was tea in the waiting room - DS (polite child! asked me if he could pour me a cup, and was doing so when the HM came in - seemed to make a good impression, because the HM remarked on it to him in the interview.
Good luck!!!!!!!!!!
MrsGuyOfGisbourne ·
11/11/2010 11:34
just a thought re the newspaper - a friend's DS was was asked at an interview last week about what he had seen in the news and he said 'Wayne Rooney' so might be an idea to point our some interesting articles, not to give the answers, but to think about 'First News' is good for giving a child-friendly perspective. Also, today for instance I saw a small article in The Times about some guys who launched a paper place from space (weather balloon) with a tiny playmobil astronaut in - kind of thing that DS finds interesting and can lead to a further discussion, also yesterday there was an article about 'sniffer rats' being trained to defuse bombs - could discuss how you wuld go about training a rat etc and also then can avoid the type of political news that would reveal his parents as loony lefties/raving facists....
cantdecidewhattodo ·
11/11/2010 11:48
MrsGuy - my DDs school know what a looney lefty I am, they don't mind
Holding any opinion is better than none.
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