7+ WUS and SPJ 2022

[animalplanet1]

Hi there,

Just feel it's been very quiet here this year on the 7+ exams and no thread has appeared wrt to those two schools.

Anyone out there also prepping?

xxx

@Candyfloss2
I would be worried about this "Our pace too overwhelming for him".
Do they mean he will not cope? Or will need permanent tutoring to keep up with their pace?

@Candyfloss2 stunned that a pre prep can actually be overwhelming for a child...think you are better off without your DC in such a school!

i called them . They say he is fussy about laptop and headphone and takes long time to get used to it .
and he won’t move around . While everyone else very lively .

and he told me teacher asking every one reading out loud “ we go for bear hunting “ .
he “ I am scared as they r so so loud I can’t hear my own reading and my own voice “ .
teacher also said “ go find a partner “ ((to do some drama rehearsal ? Or improvising .?)) he did try his best to find some left over alone kid but he is shy . So I guess no marks for team work .

then school feed back : we can not tell you that please don’t come back again for 8+ . But …. It’s up to you .

I also saw with my eyes :
a kid arrived at 8:30 out of school bus . As soon as his foot on pavement he vomit .
teacher say : send him home .

i didn’t see any hug or a piece of wipe or some water .
just : send him home .

This school I can’t name it . But it’s kinda of feeder to St Paul and Hampton .
therefore I draw conclusion my DS won’t fit into St Paul / Hampton even if academic no problem at all.

in fact I know of a mum left this school at 11+ exit her reason is : her DS hates every week soccer in the mud near Tolworth in the dark in the rain .

We will carry on trying 8+ 9/10+ just for fun . But I am now changing direction & focus onto 11+ grammar state.
simply as DS dislike any sports but very bookworm.

sounds like he won’t survive many 2nd round interviews for prep. Also those prep will be also wasted on my DS also, those amazing sport facility and sport lessons will be suffering for him ,while amazing treats for sporty boys .

Good luck to everyone of yesterday city and today St Paul!!

we will give a final try for WUS in jan. But absolutely no expectation. Just to keep this Xmas busy as we have no travel plan anyway.

wow it sounds like they dont care much for pastoral care...you are better off without!

Also: this school is registration £100 . 7+ Exam another £100 .
8+ another £100

How was everyones spj exam? Ds says no comprehension

Hope everything went well at SPJ today. Couldn’t get much out of my DS, just that the dictation was about treasure and there was problem solving in math And everything was great! 🤪

Guess we all will find out on Monday🤣

interesting point. I wonder if different papers are set for different groups because my DS said he had a comprehension paper.

My son said there was comprehension about a treasure something?!

Oh it was the dictation with the comprehension? Or a separate reading text? As he says it was just the treasure one

Sorry dictation was treasure and comprehension was a salty bay?

He just remembered it when i said salty bay! Kids🤣 Massive welldone to all the mums who have been through these preps.

My DS said the comprehension was only 9 minutes! I thought this was not correct. Would not tell me much else.

my DS said similar - comprehension about a sea centre and turtles; dictation about treasure hunt

Yes, apparently it was 9-10 min or so

@Candyfloss2 I'm so sorry to hear that. That's pretty harsh feedback and sounds like they can't be bothered with pastoral care. Hopefully you're DS will come into his own and flourish in a more nurturing environment. Was the social aspect ever raised at your current school out of interest? Wishing you and your DS all the best for the next entry point.

@SparklySparky how was the feedback from your DD re City yesterday?

DS was in the last afternoon session (I think based on age group). I didn't get much out of him except that it was not as tough as the books we have been using at home. Although when he told me creative writing was about a picture of 3 people skiing I was a bit 😬😨.

I think it was 3 people sledging

@ItsRainingTacos79 Sounds like you’ve prepped him very well! Which books did you do at home? DD felt it was a bit harder than the ones she had done recently, she felt she did ok but on further questioning she has definitely made a couple of silly mistakes by not reading/understanding the question properly 😬 Was similarly perplexed by the skiing picture! Hard to make a story out of that, maybe they were looking for descriptive language more than plot. Highgate next then that’s it til January thank god, I’m so over it!

@Mumofboys25 Oh dear! 😭

@SparklySparky Well I'm praying it was as he said. Hard to take DS's word for it as English is not his strongest subject and he struggles with the inference questions.

We've been using a mixture of Bond 6-7 and 7-8 years, scholastics literacy 7-8 years, Schofield & Sims KS1 level 1 then level 2 and various CGP books. We started with the easier levels over summer which he did independently but as we moved on to 7-8 material he needed a lot more support due to not reading books at this level yet. To be honest I wasn't going to cover material beyond 6-7 but when I heard from parents who had tutors I realised they were all working at a much higher level 😬

Agree about the story visual - it's not the most familiar of settings for us.

DS doesn't recall anything resembling verbal or non verbal reasoning - is that the case with your DD? He did mention doing a word search as an extension 🤷🏽‍♀️

Good luck with Highgate. We have that on Monday too. Then it's a breather before WUS and UCS in Jan - so glad they've ditched creative writing. Writing meaningful sentences is challenging enough 😅. I mentally checked out of prepping about a month ago because there is no way DS will miraculously move up 2 or 3 reading levels in this time.

I'm bracing myself for whatever outcome - I'm done with it all. My next focus is on getting other DS through the 11+ after all this is over 😩

Wishing everyone the best of luck!🍀