4+ Workshop Week October Half Term 2025
It is a fact that when children feel secure and capable, they are more likely to show their true potential during assessments. This not only reduces anxiety but also nurtures resilience —...
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Play Group and Individual Sessions August 2021
We will be hosting 1 hr group and individual play sessions for children over the month of August in preparation for the forthcoming 4+ and 5+ assessments. The sessions will cover all...
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Mums In The Wood and Exam Papers Plus Collaboration
Mums In the Wood is pleased to announce that, in addition to the assessments we offer for ages 3 years – 13 years, we will now be collaborating with Exam Papers Plus...
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Assessment Options
Mums In The Wood will, in addition to the group and individual mock assessments that have been running successfully for the last 8 years, be adding on progress, potential and ability assessments...
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4+ Assessment Preparation by Alison Fisher
With well over 20 years of experience, Mrs Fisher has a passion for teaching and excellence in education. Her desire is to seek the very best for young people whatever their starting points...
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4+ assessment preparation over the Christmas Holidays – A workshop for parents with Mrs Alison Fisher
With well over 20 years of experience, Mrs Fisher has a passion for teaching and excellence in education. Her desire is to seek the very best for young people whatever their starting points...
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4+? or 7+? An editorial comment on how to choose between the two routes.
Many parents often write in to ask how to know which route would better suit their child, the 4+ or the 7+. The short answer is of course that it simply depends...
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Assessing the 4+ Assessment Process: A Mums In The Wood Editorial Comment
Mums in the Wood founder Rajni Jayasekera gives us her comments: “Parents have always had widely differing views on how the academic progression of their children should be managed. Some believe that...
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4+ Assessment Preparation Talk by Mrs Alison Fisher
With well over 20 years of experience, Mrs Fisher has a passion for teaching and excellence in education. Her desire is to seek the very best for young people whatever their starting points...
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…And Breathe…Advice on preparation for the 4+ assessments over Christmas by Mrs Alison Fisher
It’s that time of year again……….! The time of year that shakes the tranquillity of North West London, when normally sensible and calm parents are turned into stressed and anxiety-ridden wrecks! And...
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4+ assessment preparation over the Christmas Holidays – A workshop for parents with Mrs Alison Fisher
We are very pleased to welcome Mrs Alison Fisher to Mums In The Wood. With well over 20 years of experience, Mrs Fisher has a passion for teaching and excellence in education. Her...
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Preparing for reception
The one thing most parents worry about, especially in the early years is their child’s proficiency in numeracy and literacy. While the early years curriculum covers a wide range of aspects of a child’s...
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Laying the foundation..
The main thing that every parent worries about when they have a baby is firstly, what schools to approach, what the registrations deadlines are and whether or not a particular nursery is...
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Pre-prep assessment preparation
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...
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Introduction to pre-prep assessment worksheets
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...
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Learning directions
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...
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Cutting Practice
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...
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Letter recognition
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...
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Counting practice
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
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...
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