7+ exam next academic year for August born boy (West London)

[WendellParent]

My 5 year old son (year 1) will sit the 7+ next academic year and I wondered what experience parents had? Our nearest schools are pretty academic (including Latymer Prep, St Paul's) and we don't know what allowances schools make for the younger ones.

Our son was born late August, youngest in his class, a strong reader but by no means a maths prodigy. He got into WUS 7+ just fine.

Our son was born late August, youngest in his class, a strong reader but by no means a maths prodigy. He got into WUS 7+ just fine.

@WendellParent hi, you must try and get a realistic idea of your son's abilities. do some mocks a yr before and see how he gets on. can he sit for 3-4 hours with breaks? is he shy in new situations? also it depends on your target school.

Latymer: 'relatively' easier but they are looking for even profile rather than a math prodigy.

SPJ: longer assessment with various parts; they have some age based parts in first round but the group session favours expressive and extroverted boys (IMHO) and older boys will naturally have an edge.

Good that you have started early and know that you would like him to sit the 7+ exam. Go slow and steady. Regular practice of times tables and number bonds / mental maths would lay a very strong foundation in Maths. Within Reading, ask lots of factual / retrieval questions and open ended questions while reading. Role play and let him ask you some questions too and let him correcr you with a more detailed answer. Also very important you both are answering in full sentences. Writing, isnt required for stage 1, for some schools but do start as it takes the most amount of time to learn to write as per expectations. Build vocab, varoed sentence starters, literally techniques like similie, alliteration etc and good use to emotions .. Gosh! Its a looong list. For us we found the writing and long comprehension to be the toughest.. we started prepping ourselves and then moved him to a tutor who covered writing and reading while we did maths and reasoning at home ourselves regularly. Very happy that we did that as he picked up very quickly and made our journey less strenuous. Reasoning is all about bond, cgp books.. start with his age and then move up.. oh do keep the spelling list at hand and target to go up to Year 3 / 4 level .. ours is done with KCJS and sitting SPJ soon 🤞🤞

@Ana555 hi would u mind pm me the English tutors contact plz?