Prepping for grammar school? Is year 3 too early?
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Re: Prepping for grammar school? Is year 3 too early?
Hope you are all going to have the stamina to carry on at this level up until A'level. Having had four at Grammar school (not prepared until year 5 ) the tutoring continues once they get there for some. One son has friends at a leading Grammar school who are still tutored outside school because.... guess what the teachers cannot possibly give a class of 30 or more the attention needed !!!
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Re: Prepping for grammar school? Is year 3 too early?
Hello there,
In regards to vocab improvement, i scratched around 5 word list including compound words, gender and young ones, 11+ important words including Patricia's word list and quite a few from other websites and daily gave her slip of ten words to look and learn in the morning, term time. I asked to have a look at them atleast 5 times during the day whenever she had time.
I think that helped her a lot.
Thanks
In regards to vocab improvement, i scratched around 5 word list including compound words, gender and young ones, 11+ important words including Patricia's word list and quite a few from other websites and daily gave her slip of ten words to look and learn in the morning, term time. I asked to have a look at them atleast 5 times during the day whenever she had time.
I think that helped her a lot.
Thanks
Re: Prepping for grammar school? Is year 3 too early?
Yes i did something similar and our list was always about 5 pages long, we did them in the car to and fro to school, while he was in the bath, quick 10 mins each day, also he liked playing free rice you can get if you Google it.
Re: Prepping for grammar school? Is year 3 too early?
Possibly the '"still" tutored' has some relevance?? DS1's GS head takes the view that having been assessed as suitable for a GS education, a pupil really has to choose not to get top marks, so to speak. They do only have classes of 25, though.MollyB wrote:Hope you are all going to have the stamina to carry on at this level up until A'level. Having had four at Grammar school (not prepared until year 5 ) the tutoring continues once they get there for some. One son has friends at a leading Grammar school who are still tutored outside school because.... guess what the teachers cannot possibly give a class of 30 or more the attention needed !!!
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Re: Prepping for grammar school? Is year 3 too early?
I don't think you can describe entrance exams as being "assessed as suitable for a grammar school education" Being prepared well to sit a couple of hours of tests does not make you a great grammar school pupil. DG
Re: Prepping for grammar school? Is year 3 too early?
I hesitate to say, my point entirely (but not for long ).Daogroupie wrote:I don't think you can describe entrance exams as being "assessed as suitable for a grammar school education" Being prepared well to sit a couple of hours of tests does not make you a great grammar school pupil. DG
Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.Groucho Marx