Prepare for South Hampstead like an expert in 3 easy steps
/With only 24 places available at South Hampstead High School, you really don’t want to leave it up to chance or good luck if you desire to send you daughter to this school at 4+. However if your daughter is unsuccessful at 7+, you do have the opportunity to try again at 7+ and the school also has 24 places available at this entry point. If I personally had a daughter and I wanted her to go to South Hampstead however, I would do everything in my power and in my control to support her to pass her 4+ Assessments. 7+ is far harder with a lot more preparation needed.
We had 100% success this year. We prepared 2 girls for their 4+ Assessment at South Hampstead and both girls passed. One girl was offered a place immediately and one girl was waitlisted and offered a place a week later. So 2/24 girls going to South Hampstead this year were prepared by us!
Here is how you can start to prepare for South Hampstead like an expert in 3 easy steps.
1. Understand that being grouped by birth month really means nothing.
Your daughter will be grouped with peers of the same or similar age but this really doesn’t mean anything. Summer born girls are assessed in the exact same way as their Autumn/Winter born peers.
2. You will be told that your daughter will not be asked to read and write and you will ignore this.
If you want your daughter to pass her assessment at South Hampstead, you will prepare her to read and write.
3. You will prepare her to be at a very high standard mathematically
Whether you invest into your own math scheme of learning or you invest in high quality tuition, if you want your daughter to pass her 4+ Assessment at South Hampstead, you will prepare her to be very academically strong mathematically.
This does not mean just covering place value by the way. This means covering addition and subtraction, geometry and positional language to name a few.
Hundreds and hundreds of girls will be applying for 24 places. I would safely assume that 400 girls will be applying. You do the math!
