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Word on the street….a candid look at the pre-preps around NW8

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As a starting point, the Good Schools Guide is a great resource for anyone just feeling their way around private school education. There are also great websites which offer information on the relevant schools like, http://www.tatler.com http://www.londonpreprep.com/schools the Good Schools Guide also have a website for which you have to subscribe and can be found at, […]

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Pre-prep assessment preparation

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Pre-prep assessments in North London schools are amongst the most competitive and parents often enter their children for as many schools as possible in the hope that their little ones will be offered a place in any one of the top schools in the area. It is often, quite a stressful time for most parents

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Introduction to pre-prep assessment worksheets

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A good way to get your child to learn while still having fun is to make it into a game.The worksheets I have attached links to have been taken from Kidslearningstation and are a pretty good way to get them started. There are also a lot of books and games on Amazon that can help in

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Learning directions

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These sheets will help a child who already has some sense of direction. The left and right worksheets are great for fine tuning and making sure that they understand which side is which whether they are crossing the road or looking at a sheet of paper. facing-right-worksheet-vehicles facing-left-worksheet-vehicles facing-right-worksheet-animals facing-left-worksheet-animals learn-left-right-vehicles learn-left-right-shapes left-right-worksheet left-right-worksheet-shapes learn-left-right-shapes-color

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Cutting Practice

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These sheets are great for practising cutting and getting little hands used to gripping a piece of paper, turning it in different ways to cut along the lines properly. The more they practise, the better their grip will become and the stronger their wrists and fingers will become. cutting-curves cutting straight lines cutting lines cutting

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Letter recognition

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Once your child is fairly familiar with his letters, these are a good way of warming up all that knowledge, just before the day of the assessment. words-letter-A words-letter-B words-letter-C words-letter-D words-letter-E words-letter-F words-letter-G words-letter-H words-letter-I words-letter-J words-letter-K words-letter-L words-letter-M words-letter-N words-letter-O words-letter-P words-letter-Q words-letter-R words-letter-S words-letter-T words-letter-U words-letter-V words-letter-W words-letter-X words-letter-Y words-letter-Z

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Counting practice

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Once your child has mastered general counting, these are a good way to improve their precision and writing skills. summer-counting-practice savanna-animals-counting-practice ocean-animals-6 insects-counting-2 farm-animals-counting-worksheet easter-counting-worksheet-three easter-counting-worksheet-nine easter-counting-worksheet-five easter-counting-practice bugs-counting-7 christmas-count8

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Size recognition

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This is one of the harder ones for little minds to grasp. When doing the worksheets I would leave these to the last but they are good for improving their powers of observation and for improving concentration. smallest-color smaller-color size-worksheet-same-size-sports shortest-pictures shortest-length-color shorter-length-color shape-matching-worksheet2-color same-size-worksheet-color shapes-colors same-shapes same-shapes-color longest-pictures longest-color longer-color long-short-pictures long-short-matching-pictures long-short-matching-color long-short-color

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Basics of drawing and tracing

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Before embarking on writing names or practising letters, one of the main things to master is pencil control. These worksheets are fun and will help your little one with this all important skill. tracing-triangles tracing-squares tracing-rectangles tracing-ovals tracing-lines-up tracing-lines-up (1) tracing-lines-down tracing-left-right tracing-diamonds tracing-circles traceable-lines trace-slanted-lines trace-right-left trace-curved-lines

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Shape recognition

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These are a few of the worksheets that you may want to start off on that will help your child to recognise the basic shapes. circle-worksheet oval-worksheet square-worksheet rectangle-worksheet triangle-worksheet diamond-worksheet

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Colour recognition

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These are just a few examples of work sheets I have found on the internet that may be helpful as a starting point. color-blue-recognition color-yellow-recognition color-red-recognition color-purple-recognition color-pink-recognition color-orange-recognition color-green-recognition color-brown-recognition color-blue-recognition color-matching-worksheet2 color-matching-worksheet1

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I am a mummy to a very lively 4 year old and I started this website because I thought it would be a good idea to create a space where mums and dads who live in St John’s Wood and the surrounding areas are able to post ideas, exchange news, information on schools, recipes, holiday

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