London grammar and private senior school entry 2025

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Hi all

It doesn’t look as though one of these threads has been set up yet so I thought I’d do it.

I have a daughter going into year 6 and a son going into year 8 next month - both will be moving to senior school in 2025.

SPGS - this week! Good luck!

Did anyone take the Thomas’ College exam this weekend? My DD was quite deflated afterwards, she found it hard to know what to write in the timeframes and said they were waiting around for ages

Did anyone take SPGS today, how was the experience?

Thomas’s was a bit odd all round. The morning session finished half an hour early and children were standing in the rain in the car park waiting to be collected. As for the paper, bonkers. It made me think, if this is the sort of child they’re looking for, it’s probably not right for us!

Good luck for all the children doing exams for Wetherby Senior / Wetherby Pembridge this week!

SPGS on Friday for DD, anybody else?

Good luck to your daughter, DreamyDreamy - I hope it goes well.

Also, good luck to all the girls who have the consortium exam tomorrow, Tuesday or Thursday next week. I expect there are quite a lot of them.

DD going as well. Hoping the test format is closer to the suggested CEM select.

All the best to your DD then @Suress !

Spgs didnt go well for us for NVR.

Godolphin tomorrow then LUS next week!

Good luck everyone!

Invitation for WHS second round received this afternoon 🥳

Does anyone know how many girls are invited back at WHS?

Thanks, and to your DD too!

Best of luck to everyone sitting Emanuel today! I only just realised that there are really not many places, considering 96 new students and assuming a 50/50 gender split😅

Dropped off DS this morning to Emanuel it was extremely busy. I wonder how many apply for such limited places.

Good luck to all of those sitting Emanuel today and those sitting Brentwood tomorrow.

@Sass22 it was busy but it seemed organised. I was wondering the same about the number of applicants.

Anyone sat City today? Any sense of the numbers and difficulty?

A friend’s son sat City on Friday morning. It was really early (he had to be there before 8am) so presumably they are doing the exam in several batches.

Good luck to all those sitting the Highgate exam on Tuesday.

Any thoughts on the LEH exam this morning? Daughter mentioned having translate Madagascan, which sounds…quirky.

@Hatcher a friend’s son sat city and thought it seemed a lot less busy than other exams, but it sounds like there were a lot of sessions.

You may want to delete your message as there will exams on alternative dates

What, in case people set their daughters up with a quick crash course in Madagascan?