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Leaders are Readers Success Rate 2011
100%
Students attending the Leaders are Readers 7+ programme performed very well in assessments for the following highly regarded schools:
- Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls
- Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School
- North London Collegiate School
- University College School
Top tips for parents - arising from recent years' 7+ entrance procedure: Fluent reading ability, aptitude for comprehension including understanding of some complex vocabulary, story writing and mathematical skills, as well as a general mathematical reasoning ability appropriate for age 9, guaranteed that all candidates were called back for interviews at the above highly competitive schools.
At the Stage 2 interview for the most competitive of the schools, activities candidates were being asked to complete appear to be similar to the VC1 and PRI sub-tests of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children.
All successful Leaders are Readers candidates had completed the 7+ Maths and 7+ English, and almost all had also attended Summer School. The 7+ maths booklets were described by parents of successful candidates as uniquely suited for the toughest schools.
Help your children to become fluent readers by age 5, including reading multi-syllable words with ease; use challenging vocabulary when speaking with them; obtain a reading list from the target schools and ensure these books are always available at home; show your children how to work out the meaning of unfamiliar or challenging words through using the context in the text as clues to meaning; get them to read out loud to you at least every other day, even after they have become independent readers, and in a relaxed manner, ask them questions on the story; they should learn the time-tables and the inverse of tables (if 5 x 12 = 60, then 60 ÷ 5 = 12) and practice regularly as this is a strong foundation for Year 3 level maths; they must be confident in tackling multi-step word problems. Maintain these habits even after they get into their target schools.
Updated: 17/03/11
7+, 5+, 4+ Assessments Maths English
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