Having an in person teacher who doesn't have experience with the schools you are applying to will not lead to success.

Having an in person teacher who doesn't have experience with the schools you are applying to will not lead to success.

There I’ve said it.

I was an in person tutor with no experience with these top schools when I first starting tutoring. We all have to start somewhere of course.

But ultimately if you want to be successful in your child’s 4+ Assessments, you must work with a teacher who is very experienced with the schools that you are applying to.

A lot of parents don’t fully understand the value of everything that we offer here at Creative Minds Tutors. They don’t understand the value of our online lessons, until they see it in action that is.

Parents always comment on how amazing we are with their children. How engaged their children are in the lessons. How much progress their children make in the lessons.

I now speak to hundreds of parents each month and some parents tell me that they would prefer in person tuition because their child is so young. I don’t understand this but I respect their wishes of course. We are all free to do what we want to do.

However, what I have found is that the majority of these parents are then not successful at getting their children into their schools of choice. And most of them come back to me for 7+ and even 11+ Assessment preparation.

An in person tutor with real and actual experience with the 4+ Assessments at the schools that you are applying to and that can be found within your local area is going to be very hard to find. So what tends to happen?

Parents reach out to their local tutoring agency (if there is one!) and that agency sends over a teacher who is EYFS qualified but more often than not has no experience with the schools that they are applying to.

How is this better than working with a teacher who fully understands the schools that you are applying to? Who fully understands exactly what the schools that you are applying to are actually looking for? How is this better than working with a teacher who knows historically what has come up in the Assessments at the schools that you would like to send your child to?

Parents cannot answer these questions when I ask them. They just tell me that ‘in person is best’

If it is, great! But this is not what I have found personally!

You want to work with a teacher who knows the schools that you are applying to exceptionally well. That should be your number one priority when choosing who to work with in preparation for your child’s 4+ Assessments.