Hope you all have a fabulous Christmas!

I don't think he would make any effort if he was to sit it, he has done well with the revision but not going to force him
Yes we are in the catchment
Sam done really well in his SATs too, and exceeded all of the targets for his year in this new curriculum process x

The sport preference test is for a selected place at Eastwood so if he passes it he could automatically get allocated a space before the secondary school allocation in April, but it is likely because we are in area they will give it to an out of area person That's good about the boys and tennis, it'...

Hi all Kids nearly back at school and football season is about to begin :) Jack has now decided that he is not sitting his 11+ now, even after all the prep and revision he has done, he was quite grown up about it and has thought about things and he wants to go to Eastwood as it has all the sports fa...

Wayne? Did he not do pe with us???
Good for you though, unfortunately the older we get the more baggage comes with relationships x

Hi ya Barcelona looked amazing Rach, we went over Mersea at the beginning of the holidays in the caravan and then had this week off doing house things and Jack had a sleepover last night belated for his birthday Have really loved having a garden this year compared with to the last two years the boys...

There are different sets of criteria now Jeanette - they sit the test in September get a score in October and the you apply for the schools and you find out in April, from my understanding there is a pass rate then a seperate score set by each school, then a score for out of area all very complex co...

27th Feb and 5th March X

Brendan Way x

I agree too about the 11plus - Jack's school offer familiarisation classes, so that the understand what is expected and key things to do, he is also going to two mornings at westcliff, I know parents who have tutored their children or had tutors and blown their trumpets to everyone that their child ...

Have had a busy week, Tom slipped a disk in his back sneezing last Saturday so has been off work all week as on strong painkillers, I was supposed to work all day Monday but ended up leaving at lunch and taking boys to the fun factory as they had a teacher training day - bumped into Louise and kids ...

I have heard a few children in jacks year have tutoring, I am not totally against it but feel that you can be trained to pass a test whether you can cope in the grammer environment is another matter. We were told last year that Jack is also a capable candidate but we are not getting him a tutor, the...

We won't be moving before Christmas as the people we are buying from as of Thursday hadn't found another property - we can wait but our buyers are eager to get in x

Hi ya Not been on for a bit, time seems to just fly by as rushing around all the time looking forward to the break over Christmas :D Have a heavy head cold, so been sneezing all weekend and I actually went for a nap earlier. Sam played football this morning bless him, he is doing so well with his ne...

Evening all, Don't get much time to post at the moment, busy busy Today the boys both had matches Jack at Orsett and Sam in Barking - both won which is good but we are all tired and windsweeped lol The sale of the house is progressing and our mortgage has been agreed on the new house, just waiting o...