Putney High School Junior School 4+ Assessment

[Bellseybub]

Hi my DD is in her final year of nursery and due to sit Putney High Schools 4+ Assessment. Does anyone have any experience on what this entails and if there is any practice we can do at home? Is it really based on their natural intelligence or is it more based on what they have been taught at home / nursery? (Eg Phonics, numbers etc). Really appreciate any heads up from anyone who is in the know Thank You

Based on my limited experience it is mainly a lottery and tends to favour the quieter, less 'spirited' ones who are born earlier in the year. Not much help I'm afraid but definitely not just down to natural intelligence as I really don't think they can tell at 3, which is what some of them are. Jigsaws, cutting paper up, writing their name probably all helpful but basically a lottery!

Hello, I don’t know what they do at Putney High but I gather there’s some sort of formula where they ask children to draw a picture/write their name, do a puzzle etc and of course they’ve been separated from their parents so they look and see how well they coped with that. From what I can see with my local GDST school the waiting lists do move massively all the way up to the start of the term in September so don’t worry too much if you don’t get in at the first round.

Thank you - really intesting to get feedback and goes along the line of what I expected. Our little one is 3 and 1/2 so is fairly young. I’m getting the impression a lot will depend on how she performs on the day and how tired she is after a morning at nursery- so a lottery indeed!

They tend to get the ones who are confident but not necessarily more able. My DD was rejected at 4+ and then accepted at 7+ (this was the last year when they still only had one entry at 4 and a second at 7). My DD turned out to be far more academic than lots of the girls who were accepted at 4. They do seem to try to take pupils from all months of the year though, so not all Autumn birthdays.

Don't send her to nursery that day if you think she's going to be tired surely?

Lots about this on the primary education forum.

Thanks - really useful. I hadn’t found this when doing a google search! It pretty much covers what I had expected

Thank you - really useful to know!