LHT Academic Assessment Brochure

DO YOU UNDERSTAND
YOUR CHILD’S

ACADEMIC POTENTIAL?



LONDON HOME TUTORS
ACADEMIC ASSESSMENTS

As a parent, do you feel you understand your child’s academic attainment? Here at
London Home Tutors we hear time and time again from parents that schools are not
giving them the information they need to help identify their child’s potential and signpost
their next steps in respect of school choices.

Parents want their children to go to schools where they will be happy and fulfill their
potential but often they have no information on which to base these choices. We hear this
from families in the state sector and the private sector alike.

In response to ongoing requests from our parents we have devised a comprehensive
Academic Assessment whose purpose is three fold:

1. To tell you how your child is performing now in comparison with their national
year group

2. To guide you as to their unique academic potential
3. To give parents guidance on the implications of the test results for their child in

respect of school entrance exams for London schools

Our Academic Assessment has been created by qualified teachers based in London and is
always administered, marked and fed back to parents by a qualified teacher who knows
about the schools you have in mind. Each assessment can take up to three hours and is
undertaken by an experienced teacher who monitors your child's approach, confidence
and skill level during each of the tests.

Following the appointment, you will be provided with a detailed report about your child
and will also have a follow up meeting or call with the teacher who assessed your child to
discuss your child's current academic level, strengths and areas for developments and if
required a discussion about school entrance exam choices.

LONDON HOME TUTORS ACADEMIC ASSESMENTS

LONDON HOME TUTORS
ACADEMIC ASSESSMENTS

Assessments, who are they for and what do they do?
Assessments are aimed at children in school years three, four, five and six or a capable
year two if a 7+ exam is being considered. The assessment is used to monitor a number of
areas:
• Verbal and Non-Verbal Reasoning to capture academic potential in a way similar to 11+ exams
• Spelling, Reading, Writing and Mathematics tests to capture the level your child is

working at now in key areas of attainment
• To identify why gaps between potential and current attainment might be happening,

such as undiagnosed SEN, confidence or classroom issues
• To identify your child’s suitability for selective entrance exams, such as the 7+, 11+ and 13+

The National Curriculum
Each of our assessments target different areas within the curriculum and are up to date
with the new National Curriculum standards which came into force in 2014. The new
curriculum was developed to stop school grading pupils in ‘levels’. This was done mainly
in the hope of stopping schools rushing children to the next ‘level’ when they had not
really grasped or retained the current learning. Schools are now able to grade pupils
progress as they feel best, leading to an array of different methodologies and techniques.
This has left parents even more confused about the progress of their child, particularly as
many schools do not share this information with parents openly.
Our Academic Assessments provides a simple solution, a standardised score. These
scores were produced by leading experts in child education and explain that ‘normal’
range is a score between 85 and 115. If a child is above this then they are of above average
ability and below indicates learning can be harder than it is for others. We use these
scores, combined with your child’s age, to provide information signposting appropriate
future school choices.

What happens next?
Once the assessments are completed the assessor writes a detailed report highlighting all
of the child’s strengths and areas for improvement as well as describing the child’s
potential. The assessor will then meet or have an extensive phone conversation with you
to discuss the report and answer any questions that you may have.

LONDON HOME TUTORS ACADEMIC ASSESMENTS



LONDON HOME TUTORS
ACADEMIC ASSESSMENTS

However, at London Home Tutors we know that this can sometime only be the beginning.
You may be left with questions about how to best support your child? Which schools
would allow them to thrive? We are here to help, we offer an honest advice service about
how best to help your child. It maybe with small changes and focus in one area that they
begin to reach their potential and this can be included into a little work at home with the
family; however, sometimes children need a boost, this could be for confidence reasons,
misconceptions which need to be addressed or a lift up the learning ladder, then you may
think that one to one tuition is the best option. With all the information gleaned from the
assessment, our tutors will know exactly where to start.

At London Home Tutors we never tutor for the sake of it and if following an assessment
we can see your child is on track and performing in line with their potential we will be
honest about this and recommend that no tutoring is necessary for the time being.