Age 2 stay and play assessment at prep school

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DD has been offered a conditional place at a prep school which will involve a one hour stay and play assessment when she is 2. She will start the school when she is 3. Does anyone have any idea what these actually entail? Should she be exceeding age appropriate milestones? Is it nothing to do with that? Are they judging parents? Just wondering what things would rule a child out of being successful, especially at such a young age?

At DD’s school, they are just checking possible SEN. If they think the child fits the school, they will offer places from whose siblings are already at the school or has any relation to the school such as staff’s child etc. Then they will give offers to who registered first.

It may depend on school.

At our school its mainly to see if the school fits the child, and to ensure they have some sort of balance in the class. They don’t want 19 very confident, loud children and one quite, shy child in one class, and a majority of quite/shy children in the other for example, so are trying to mix the classes ( 2 classes per year). Also, and extremely sporty child might be a better fit to the very sports focused prep down the road, for a child with SENDs they need to select the right class teacher (ours have some teachers with experience with extreme premies etc, or extensive additional trainig for autism, or loads of experience with visually impaired kids and so on).