Y4 11+ Week Commencing 9th February (week 2 of 6)

9 Feb

Welcome back, everyone — we hope you had a lovely weekend.

As we approach half term, here are a few important reminders:

1) Time Focus Workshop – Thursday 19th
Time is an area that often doesn’t receive enough attention in school, and many children find its abstract nature quite challenging. This workshop will give them valuable, focused practice.

2) NVR – Starting After Half Term
These sessions will concentrate on understanding this area of the 11+ exam. We step up the work and begin looking at multiple step Non-Verbal Reasoning problems.

A couple of important reminders:

Parking: Please don’t park on site. The spaces belong to other organisations using the venue, and we really appreciate your understanding.

Attendance: Classes run Monday to Saturday. If your child can’t make a session, let us know as early as you can — we’ll always try to offer an alternative slot within the same week if space allows.

Thanks so much for your continued support — we’re looking forward to continuing a happy and productive term.

Warm regards,
Chris, Nic and the team

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THINGS TO BOOK

TIME FOCUS LESSON

BOOK HERE

This targeted session helps children build confidence and understanding with telling and working with time — an area many learners find challenging because time is an abstract concept and often not covered in depth at school.

During the 1.5-hour session, we will focus on:
• Reading time on both analogue and digital clocks
• Finding time differences (e.g., “How long between 3:15 and 4:05?”)
• Calculating with time, including adding and subtracting minutes and hours
• Reading and understanding timetables (real-life problem solving)

The session uses step-by-step explanations, visual supports, and practical examples to make time feel more concrete, logical, and easier to understand.

Cost: £40.00. Thursday 19th February 16:30 - 18:00

NON-VERBAL REASONING FOCUS SESSIONS

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Tuesdays 4:30pm or Saturdays 11am

Week 4: Monday 2nd March - Saturday 7th March

Week 5: Monday 9th March - Saturday 14th March

Week 6: Monday 16th March - Saturday 21st March

Help your child build confidence and excel in their GL 11+ Non-Verbal Reasoning with our focused NVR sessions. Designed to break down the more complex elements, each session is paced carefully to ensure your child fully understands and develops key skills in areas such as coding, sequences, matrices, and analogies, along with other challenging NVR topics. By mastering these essential techniques, your child will feel more prepared and self-assured for the 11+ exam.

Cost: £60.00 | Duration: 1 hour (x 3 sessions)

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This week’s KAHOOT quiz pin: 04536801 (BODMAS QUIZ)

If your child finds this quiz really challenging -remember we are running NVR focus sessions starting next week!

Well done to Harriet. Our winner last week . You get 5 raffle tickets!!

Remember to play through kahoot.it. Use name1, name2, name3 etc for each play!

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VOCABULARY

WORD OF THE WEEK: ENVIOUS (Find a synonym, antonym and put it into a sentence).

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Homework

Unsure how to do homework or independent study - watch this link

PLEASE WATCH THE VIDEO LINK: - VERBAL REASONING - Related words before the lesson. This can replace a 10min test and children will receive 2 raffle tickets for doing so.

Need homework books? Order here

Coming to the end of the 10min test books? The next steps are the focus books - information was sent our via text message on Sunday. Order here

CGP Practice Books 9-10

MATHS ASSESSMENT TEST 1 NVR ASSESSMENT TEST 3

Finish the booklet from the lesson and return in the following week. Remember to complete the vocab in context. To be handed in week commencing 23rd January

REMEMBER: to mark the homework with your child and bring it to next lesson.

REMBEMBER THE HOMEWORK IS DUE IN NEXT WEEK’S CLASS.

Complete at least 3 tests from each of the 10min test books. REMEMBER to mark this with your child daily & go through mistakes. Suggested time table is available in our 11+ guide. https://www.elevenplussuccess.com/11-useful-documents