Trinity/Whitgift 2019 thread

plasterdisaster
That' really good news. Best of luck with the interviews

SpaceOpera
Did your DS attend the T Music scholarship information morning back in November?
They outlined the process and what to expect on the day.
On the day itself, your DS will have a chance to warm up in one the lovely practice rooms, before being taken to the assessment room by the dir of music, who by the way is really nice and put the boys at ease.
If your DS requires a piano accompaniment, its likely that the dir of music or one of the staff will step in
The audition is about 15-20 mins, and then your DS will be returned to you. It's rather like going to a grade exam, where you sit and wait while for them return.
Congrats to your DS for getting this far. Remember that some applicants would not have been offered the chance to go for the audition/assessment.
BTW, the music at T really is excellent!

SpaceOpera thank you for your reply. I did think 200 was somewhat high but then you never know.

Chelsea3 thank you so much, we can all guess, however the candidate number is more accurate. And since you handed your application on the last day means 150 ish (add a few late entries) is more a realist figure so thank you!! Glad you managed to get the application in on time!

I know from previous threads that 3yrs ago the number was around 180, don't know whether this was a bulge year and last year was 150 ish.

Thanks for reply and good luck with your interview.

Thanks for reply

Thanks gambas - any tips gratefully received!
Chelsea - thank you. Trinity will work out what your son is interested in to get him to talk. They seem to be very used to all sorts of 10&11 year old boys.
Aggie29 - Whitgift phoned me today, not email or letter. That’s 11+ though.

Hi aggie I had a call from Whitgift this afternoon inviting us for a 11+ interview next week.

Plasterdisaster.. is this for 10 plus or 11 plus interview?

where you contacted via email or post by whitgift as we haven’t heard anything yet?

We have interviews for both whitgift and trinity

Good evening to all. I was just wondering if anyone has heard back from Whitgift School about the 11plus? I saw one person has had an invite for an interview and was wondering if anyone else has...

Thanks all for replying back 're scholarships. I guess it all rides on interview. What is it they makes them decide if they want the child for Trinity? My DS is not a confident speaker (unless your talking about footy).

Bondi.. amazing news 're interview and W/DC.

Btw... I handed my T application by hand on the morning of deadline day and I am 146.. so seems like it is close to 150.

You may well be right there - forgot T is a smaller school than W. Maybe closer to 150?

I personally think there were less than 200 candidates at 10+. DS said that the exams were in classes of which there were 15 and there were 12 in his class. If it helps his number was close to 120 and we applied extremely close to the deadline.there's no guarantee of course that candidate numbers are given according to date of application.

Jige from the T drop off and pick up I would have said there were about 200 candidates. I know W had just over 200.

Meant to say DS has 10+ music audition on Monday. Anyone gone through any of these in past years or even this year?

Unless I have an offer letter in my hand, I’m assuming nothing and getting straight into 11+ Prep with DS until Feb 14th - and beyond if he is not selected. The only downside is that I will be missing out on doing a broader set of things with him because of 11+ Prep. If he gets the 10+ offer he can set his sights on exploring non-academic areas of interest to him. So here’s hoping.

Hi all, my DS sat 10+ at Trinity and Whitgift. Out of curiosity I’m interested if anyone knows how many sat 10+ at Trinity? I think we can work by the last 3 digits of your candidate number. For example if your number was 1910321 (first 2 digits are the year, next 2 the year group sitting, last 3 your number). So if someone was given 1910321, we know that there were at least 321 that sat the 10+. To get an idea of the number of 10+ candidate can you reply with number close to but not your exact candidate eg 320 With the example. Hopefully the highest number would give a good estimate. From our actual number we know that are more than 20 candidates for the 10+!!!

Bondiboo my neighbour is one of the admissions registers at DC so I can ask her for any tips for you!

Evening, DS has music audition at T on Monday. Any advice appreciated from experienced hands! Thanks a bunch!

Thanks gambas. He has astounded us. Dulwich was a complete surprise!

Bondiboo74 that’s great news. Your DShas done expectionally well ,DC particularly is very tough!

Sorry for long delay in coming back on here. DS’s interview went really well yesterday and we left with a good feeling so fingers crossed.
Have also heard back from Whitgift and Dulwich. Interviews at both. We are over the moon!

And yes, generally I think a Saturday interview usually means that your DS isn't being considered for an academic scholarship, I'm afraid.

Chelsea, when they say "admissions team", they just mean that your DS will be interviewed by a teacher, but they can't say which one at the moment - there will be an awful lot of boys being interviewed on the Saturday.

They have a number of teachers who do the admission interviews every year, and are very experienced in doing so.