Are you considering the Gloucestershire Grammar School
test in 2024 or beyond for your child?
11+ Provision
Ashley Manor Prep offers a comprehensive, fully tailored 11+ preparation programme. Our approach includes regular assessments, targeted booster sessions in Maths, Non-Verbal and Verbal Reasoning, and exposure to 11+ style questions across all subjects. Students benefit from in-class activities, after-school clubs, and personalised feedback, ensuring they are fully supported in their preparation. We focus on building both knowledge and exam techniques, fostering a collaborative environment between home and school to give each child the best chance of success.
Easter marks a key point in Year 5 11+ preparation, as students sit their first formal mock test just before the holiday. This provides invaluable experience under exam conditions and highlights areas that need focus. These results are shared with parents before Easter, offering an opportunity to address them during the break. In addition to optional weekly booster sessions in-school over Easter, each child receives a login for CGP 11+ online for further preparation at home.
During term time, children can attend optional after-school clubs in Maths and Non-Verbal Reasoning, along with a Verbal Reasoning booster club on Tuesday mornings. Weekly drop-in clinics are also available at lunchtimes, where children can receive specialist help with any 11+ areas.
We believe success in the 11+ depends on collaboration between home and school. After additional mock tests in the Summer Term, results and areas for improvement are shared with parents. Resource suggestions for home use are provided, and teaching is tailored to meet each child’s specific needs.
Children can also opt to attend extra booster sessions during the May half-term and the long summer break, ensuring they stay engaged and prepared for the test at the start of Year 6.
For any 11+ related questions or to learn more about the provision at Ashley Manor, please contact e.parkin@ashleymanorprep.co.uk. We’d be happy to assist with any queries.
Preparation is carefully tailored in each year group, as follows:
Year 2
- Verbal reasoning tests introduced during Year 2.
- In Maths, where appropriate, pupils to access the curriculum from the year group ahead.
Year 3
- Verbal reasoning tests carried out in class with a non-verbal reasoning academic extension club operating after school.
- Introduction of cloze procedure in the style of 11+ testing
- Maths: Ability group structure enables pupils to be extended and supported as appropriate
- Maths: exposure to elements of 11+ style questions
- 11+ activities available on the VLE
Year 4
- Verbal reasoning tests carried out in class with a non-verbal reasoning academic extension club operating after school.
- Introduction to the 11+ style of comprehension
- Maths: Ability group structure enables pupils to be extended and supported as appropriate
- Maths: exposure to elements of 11+ style questions
- Non-verbal reasoning homework
- 11+ Maths homework club
- 11+ activities available on the VLE
Year 5
- Verbal reasoning tests carried out in class with a non-verbal reasoning academic extension club operating after school.
- 11+ Maths homework club
- English: Regular in-class comprehension assessment
- English: Introduction of GL Assessment (11+) reading comprehension tasks
- Maths: Ability group structure enables pupils to be extended and supported as appropriate
- Maths: exposure to elements of 11+ style questions
- Non-verbal reasoning homework
- General: Introduction of timing through all papers
- 11+ activities available on the VLE
- Additional early morning and after-school classes after the Easter break
- Holiday Sessions- Opportunity to attend holiday classes during the Easter, half term and Summer holidays.
- Regular mock 11+ tests
