Upcoming girls’ independent SW London schools 11+ exams

@WarmAndco3y @Stircrazyschoolmum

Thank you

That's brilliant news @MumsRule20 @peacockfeather11 and @Brot64 - that's brilliant news. Best of luck for the next round.

I saw the KS2 SATs news flash up as an alert on the BBC news app when GW was speaking to the Commons and I think it was reported in the paper the next day, but apart from that, it has certainly been rather buried.

@PatoPato and @WarmAndco3y Big thanks - certainly a good way to start the weekend. Amazing yours got a scholarship on back of ISEB - was it Academic? I would feel quite confident of a good all round result for others if so. But I guess this thread tells us differently in ways and that we really don’t know what each and every school is essentially looking at.

I had hoped to feel more at ease but more stages and hurdles and waits for us all.

@MumsRule20 we are fortunately (??) benefiting from our schools lack of strictness on HS, as such we are picking and choosing what we do leading up to Emanuel but will become more disciplined afterwards.

The SAT thing is great news at a personal level as our local state holds all their own streaming tests in Sept so no impact. I’m guessing it’s less good news for the schools but as you say, they will hold less pressurised tests to measure performance and fingers crossed all those tedious weeks revising SATS papers in the summer term will disappear.. DD and I have had our fill of revising!!

It was definitely buried in the news though.. or perhaps I was hyperventilating over ‘back buttons’ at the time!

@Stircrazyschoolmum our school said they will do their own no pressure test to make sure children are on top of where they need to be. Unfortunately, the homeschooling tasks seems to be quite intense this time and they are taking registration for the brief Google Meet they do every day, so not sure how easily I can squeeze in extra revision time...

@Stircrazyschoolmum Thank you. Well interesting story. On Tues DD woke me up squealing with delight to say SATS cancelled and she saw it on Newsround. I immediately googled and couldn’t find anything to that effect and told her they must mean the KS1 SATS which were cancelled in Dec. Then the next day on the 6th, I read something hidden somewhere on G Williamson’s statement as @DrRamsesEmerson said this has been well buried and yet reported ir announced much by mainstream and only saw the statement in TES and then checked the Gov website where it confirmed. I think Mirror / Express caught on to it early but I chose to ignore those confirm but this was only coming up in TES. So DD was correct from the beginning!

@DrRamsesEmerson. Thank you! Yes.. I think that news got buried!

@Brot64 fab news.. well done! A great start to the weekend!

@peacockfeather11 apologies, mixing my posts, @MumsRule20 where did you hear SATS are cancelled?

Congratulations @Brot64, that’s excellent. Well done you your DD.

The wait here is becoming excruciating

@MumsRule20 that wonderful. It’s really nice to know and heartwarming. Wishing your DD the best with her interview and rest of schools you are waiting on and of course the Emmanuel exams. My friend’s DD is sitting Emmanuel too.

My DD got a fairly decent scholarship at one school on the back of ISEB, but it doesn’t make me less anxious about whether she has made the mark for the 2 others, which are more selective, that we are waiting on. Honestly, this year we just don’t know. But the support on here keeps me going.

Positive news for us too from CLSG.

And congratulations @MumsRule20! Good news!

[quote Stircrazyschoolmum]@peacockfeather11 well done on your interview offer.. I’m not familiar with the date timeline for city but I’m guessing homeschooling will allow you some flex in prepping for the assessment?

Curious around your statement regarding the SATs.. our state primary haven’t indicated they are cancelled? Our school don’t start prepping for them till Easter as I think they take place in May? (Can’t say I’ll be upset if they don’t happen!)

@MumsRule20 WHOOP WHOOP!! After yesterday’s disappointments I am SO happy for you![/quote]
Gavin Williamson said in the Commons on Wednesday that SATs are cancelled,, it didn't get much coverage as there was so much else going on that day!

@peacockfeather11 well done on your interview offer.. I’m not familiar with the date timeline for city but I’m guessing homeschooling will allow you some flex in prepping for the assessment?

Curious around your statement regarding the SATs.. our state primary haven’t indicated they are cancelled? Our school don’t start prepping for them till Easter as I think they take place in May? (Can’t say I’ll be upset if they don’t happen!)

@MumsRule20 WHOOP WHOOP!! After yesterday’s disappointments I am SO happy for you!

@MumsRule20 that is fantastic news - so pleased for you.
It's the most awful emotional rollercoaster isn't it. What lovely news to go into the weekend with!

@peacockfeather11 well done to you. I fear that the assessment will be our breaking point as basing it on the turndown of G&L and LU, and calibre of applicants, mine won’t be meeting the mark for Maths. English is stronger and also her Reasoning and NVR. Hmm, not keen on more assessments either. Had totally forgotten and had our Emanuel exam as last one!! At least SATS have been cancelled for Year 6 at the states so she can revise a bit more, I guess.

@DrRamsesEmerson sorry it didn’t come through for you but still so fantastic on LU and really keeping fingers crossed for you.

It's great she passed one and I hope you get good news from LU.

Back to studying for the CLSG Maths and english Assessment for us.

DD didn't get through CLSG, but I'm happy that she passed one - I would have felt rotten putting her through all the prep if she'd failed both. On the bright side, we don't now have to do anything else, just wait to see if she gets an offer from LU.

We got through to interview. DD v happy! I hope you all get good news too.

@MulledWine20 and @MumsRule20
Commiserations. But as it’s said, it’s not over until it’s over. I know it’s easier said than done, but don’t give up hope. It’s just a challenging year and what we’ve known as the norm is not the norm anymore.

For those waiting on CLSG, all the best for tomorrow.

We have a long wait till offers day for one and an interview call for the other, I can’t remember the date now. I honestly just want to fast forward to offers day.

Congratulations to those who have interviews, really a weight off to know ISEB went well.

@wagonwheelcoffeetable, I echo what @Oceane11Plus has said. Different schools will be looking at different aspects of the test. It’s tough but as you say time will tell. Wishing your DD all the best with her other schools

@Pantomine

Also waiting for CLSG tomorrow. Our first choice so really hope it's positive news. Good luck to your DD.

CLSG for us tomorrow (we only applied to this) , state option for us really good too.