Is 'value for money' always best when preparing your child for their Assessments?

I like to see this as a long road.

You have a long road in front of you.

If you are planning on going down the independent schools route, you have several toll booths on this road.

You have the 3+, then the 4+, the 7+, the 8+ and then the 11+ or 13+.

You may have some additional tolls should you apply for occasional places.

Working with the right person means stopping at fewer toll booths.

Let’s use Habs Girls as an example.

I teach a lot of girls who want to go to this school.

If she is successful at her 4+ Assessments, the road will get much shorter for her. That’s it she is in!

If she isn’t successful, her journey along the road continues. She has to do the 7+ which she will need to start preparing for from the time she is in Reception. If she is successful, she has journeyed along the road for a bit longer.

If she isn’t successful, she has to prepare for the 11+. Now the road becomes A LOT longer and we are on this road together from Year 3 all the way to Year 6.

Choosing a tutor who provides you with ‘value for money’ therefore is always best.

I’m not talking about the cheapest.

I’m talking about the tutor who can actually support your daughter to get in at 4+.

To shorten the road for you. I’ve seen this so many times.

Parents say to me that my lessons are ‘too expensive’. Believe me, it is far more expensive to ‘save money’, not be successful and then have to prepare for another 2-4 years!

‘Value for money’ to me means that you find a teacher than can actually help you to be successful to the school that you want your child to go to. That is true ‘value for money’.