We're currently planning a move to Gloucestershire, and I've just realised this means we'll be negotiating the 11+ grammar system (we don'y have that in sussex, we're I'm from!)
Our kids are 5 and 8 so we have a few years to plan, but I'm a bit worried about it.. The 8 year old is youngest in her year (august born) and while bright, understandably is not near the top of the class.
The pressure of putting them under such big exams so young worries me, but also I suspect they'd thrive at grammar (my husband went to one and said it was the making of him)
Can anyone share advice on how best to prepare, what to expect?
Are the secondary schools bad because the brightest kids get hauled off to the grammars?