Patricia

Starting the 11+ journey can feel overwhelming. Suddenly, there are new words to learn, schools to research, practice papers to think about, different subjects to understand and, everywhere you look, advice about what your child should be doing. It’s easy to feel that you need to get started immediately and somehow fit everything in. But take a breath. You don’t need to do everything at once. In fact, one of the most important things you can do at the beginning of the 11+ journey is

Firstly, congratulations! If you've registered your child for the Gloucestershire 11+ Entrance Test, you've taken the first important step towards applying for one of Gloucestershire's grammar schools. Every year there are some parents who forget or just miss the date and there is absolutely no way of submitting a late entry. I always tell parents the true story of a Gloucestershire mother who was a day late for the registration during COVID. She was a nurse and had been in hospital working non