Habadashers Pre-prep? Anyone give me any tips on how to get in?

[Mammafish]

I've heard Habs Pre-prep is a top school and would like my son to get in. He's only young yet, but I want him to get in at 5 years old.

Any tips/pointers on how to start preparing him to get through the assessment and get into the school.

Is there anyone's son/daughter there already? How did you find the assessment and what did you do to prepare your little one?

i went to grammar school

at 11, i had an interview chat with the head (with my parents) . She asked what I had had for breakfast, I said toast and a poached egg. She said did I like the white or the yolk best. I said 'you mean the yolk or the albumen'

When I had an interview at Habs Girls at 10, some 30+ years ago, they asked me what I would do with a brick.

what did yuou SAY

I think I wittered on about painting it and making a paperweight or book end out of it, using it to start a rockery in my garden (some rockery!) or balancing my rabbit hutch on it (could have used 3 more). My mum said they probably just wanted me not to say "Throw it through a window." Thank goodness I didn't get the Dali.

lol

I probalby would have said ' a brick of what'

Can I just drop in to say I deffo agree with the idea of 13 years at the same school being a bit claustrophobic.

We have a v good school at the end of our road which I hope Dd will go to at 11. But the idea of being at an all girls school with mostly the same children from 4 to 18 does my head in, so we didn't put her in for the entrance exam at 4.

Also, although there is v little doubt in my mind that DD would have passed the exam, I strongly disapprove of selection at 4, partly because of the mentality it sets up in the parents.

Family folklore has it that age four when the head of my prospective school interviewed me, she mentioned to my mum that she had a bad back to which I piped up 'oh you need an orthopaedic bed'.

(Little did she know at that stage that the family business was retailing beds and bedroom furniture so that was the reason why I knew the word...sadly I was not a prodigy)

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Mammafish

I have been reading you thread with great interest as i am in the same boat as you.

I am considering, my daughter(currently a mere 18 months old!) for the 4+ assessment fo Habs and NLC but more immediately am intending to send her for the 3+ at St Helens (which is closer to us). But my daughter has a late august date of birth and am very confused and worried about how she will fair in the assessment.

How did your son get on with his assessment?and do you have any more info regarding the actual assessment. I would very much appreciate any advice you are able to give.

Habs seems to be very very academic. ds will be going to EG in Sept. Tis too young to know if ds is academic or not yet, and I would prefer him not to be so pressured.