Whitgift and Trinity 11+ exams and Interviews

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Hi all
I am new to this. I am loving this site.
Has anyone's DS taken an 11+ exam at Whitgift or Trinity this year. We have taken both and have an interview at Whitgift.
Any tips for a first timer.

WRT birth order, I have gone in first with DS1 to lull them with a false sense of security (bright, bidabble, generally calm and lovely) before hitting them with the pent up volcano that is DS2. They'll love him.

I hope.

Alas my two are the other way round. Really not sure if ds2 will appreciate his brother's reputation in years to come....

Oh, I had that kind of reputation to live down from my 2 older brothers. It means you always come as a pleasant surprise to teachers so it's not so bad! :o

@soupy - your DS1/DS2 sound just like my two - the older one is a role model while the younger one (2 yrs younger) is a force-to-be-reckoned-with! Everyone keeps on telling me that I will not have any problems putting him through 11+ process , full of confidence with an elephants memory!

Thanks for the abridged version SoupDragon - I was getting convinced that they had withheld something vital in our telephone conversation Paranoia on top of everything else now (and I don't think I can even spell it right!!)
Good luck at your interview tomorrow - I've DS has to wait until Saturday.

seeline - our interview is on Sat as well - good luck, see you there

I'm trying not to log in but have to admit that I'm still reading, daily, well actually hourly! A huge thank you to all on here who are posting, it's helping to keep me sane and making me chuckle, so comforting to know that we are all in the same boat. I sincerely wish the best outcomes for all of us. If the worst comes to the worst perhaps we could set up our own school!!??

@all of you posting...very funny comments as I'm feeling all similar sentiments re interviews and prickly sons! Had W interview last week and T on Saturday so I will be giving you a nod and a wink Kremlin-stylie over a cuppa...watch out!!

@beanie....must admit I am doing the same, hourly checks ..... most of the W stuff has finished now cos I think most of us have had interviews .... its the T interviews now and unfortunately we didn't get that one never mind hey

beanie34 - oh, I love the idea of a school of our own. Imagine the force of its PTA ...we could be the best run school in the country

I have to just say Ladies, I have been reading this thread last thing before I go to sleep and could not help myself.Havnt actually posted on mums net for years, so had to find my log in etc etc, but it is obsessive reading.
My DS has sat for W and had the interview with Canon B and it all seemed really laid back .Didnt know about T until I started to read this thread and wish we had tried, but hey ho.
Roll on Feb 16th then .....
You ladies seem like legends to me so I had to post to make sure you are all real. :)

No, we'r not real. We are simply a fiction of the collective MN Mind created to make people feel a little better 9or worry more) about secondary applications.

I'm no convinced about setting up our own school - I've seen what some of us you say about our your sons. It would be hell.

I could probably source purple capes. I might even manage to source an albino peacock. but I suspect that the olympic sized pool with the changing depth/temp facility is probably going to be a problem.

Peacocks are sooo last year - I think may be a lion or two. Might help with discipline?

I can source an albino peacock.... just give me a couple of nights, a hessian sack and a car with false plates.

According to DS1, the box at T once stole a peacock from W on "muck up day".

My MIL, who lives between S Coydon and Selsdon has had one of hte peacocks from W in her garden.....We'll just wait for the next escapee

Now there's a sure fire way to succeed in T interview. Bring in, as object, an albino peacock. Or a wallaby.

Failing that, I have a peacock father, some duck tape and a spaniel. Will that work?

Caterham runs circus skills lessons - suspect lion taming would be within the curriculum.

feather.

I am not proposing some genetic hybrid of spaniel and peacock.

"So tell me, DS, what do you think you have to offer to Trinity?"

Asterisk - I'm not so sure T HM was referred rather scathingly to 'wallabies and heards of wildebeests' at the open morning

Well, to be fair he said they didn't have herds of wandering wildebeest so maybe one of those would be best?

You could be right soup although I didn't pick up any
I suppose it couldn't do any harm. Now how big is my big handbag and how big is a wildebeest?

Seeline: Quite! If one were to be blatantly undermining private zoo, and were offering to ransom kidnapped beast, it would curry favour, no?

Hate to think admission tutors might be reading this thread...