Preparation for school interviews
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At one interview DS sat last year he was asked to prepare a small storyboard about himself. This was a good discussion point and proved a prompt for DS to remember all of his achievemets. Perhaps this was what your tutor was eluding to. I wouldn't recommend a file of things though - my DS would have spent his time shuffling through it and dropping it no doubt
Also would only do the storyboard if asked. The 4 interviews my DS sat were all very different - some lasting a day, some only an hour and all varied wildly. They did all manage to get DS to talk and feel he hadn't missed anything out whilst 'testing' him with quite hard questions (IMO)
Also would only do the storyboard if asked. The 4 interviews my DS sat were all very different - some lasting a day, some only an hour and all varied wildly. They did all manage to get DS to talk and feel he hadn't missed anything out whilst 'testing' him with quite hard questions (IMO)
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My D.S. has two indie interviews this year, and was offered places by both and two scholarships. Some children arrived with carefully prepared projects etc but we didn't do any of that. The week before his friends dad asked him a few interview type questions, this was very helpful, and on the morning of each interview he opened his school bag and put in his karate belt, his swimming medals, his cricket trophy and the book he was reading at the time. This gave him plenty to talk about with minimal preparation...every time the conversation dried up he reached into the bag and pulled out the next object!
Well known Oxfordshire boys school. Whole day of group activities,discussions, lessons, lunch and one to one interview and a chance to show off any musical/ sporting abilities. DS had great fun whilst getting a good feel for the school too.FirstTimeBuyer wrote:Which school interviews for a whole day?suncrest wrote:The 4 interviews my DS sat were all very different - some lasting a day, some only an hour ........
Coould in no way have prepared for any of the interviews he attanded so my advice as others have said is be natural.
Can we be clear here - was it the interview which lasted the whole day or the visit to the school - there's a huge difference and expectations tailored to such.
DD's two indie school's invited her for the day (had lunch, a few lessons and games) and then did one on one interviews after all the results were in.
DD's two indie school's invited her for the day (had lunch, a few lessons and games) and then did one on one interviews after all the results were in.
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Hi everyone - thanks for all the replies. I think pretty much everyone agrees with my gut feeling that attending the interview with a prepared folder would be over the top. (Even the boys in the Cutting Edge programme, 'Too Poor for Posh School?', didn't do that!)
I like Tipsy's idea of preparing the folder anyway, but just as a way of getting DS thinking about things he could talk about in interview. We already have a scrapbook with all kinds of certificates in it (some considerably less impressive than others!) so we could use that as a starting point.
Would be really interested to hear what kinds of things (aside from the obvious - favourite author, favourite subject at school) children have been asked in interviews. I think I'll start a new thread on this topic.
I like Tipsy's idea of preparing the folder anyway, but just as a way of getting DS thinking about things he could talk about in interview. We already have a scrapbook with all kinds of certificates in it (some considerably less impressive than others!) so we could use that as a starting point.
Would be really interested to hear what kinds of things (aside from the obvious - favourite author, favourite subject at school) children have been asked in interviews. I think I'll start a new thread on this topic.
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