7+ St Paul’s Boys’ Focus Group
Date: 18th October 2025 - 20th October 2025
Venue: Great Western Studios, 65 Alfred Road, W2 5EU
Time: 10:00 - 15:00 Daily
Course Fee: £1350
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This short focus group is designed to teach and assess all aspects of the St Paul’s Junior School 7+ entrance exam. It will follow the same format, and each section will be taught by subject specialists with several years of 7+ experience.
Course Schedule
- On Day I – students will begin by working on dictation, covering spelling strategies, and how to infer spelling and punctuation from auditory clues. In the second half of the session we will work on comprehension in St Paul’s format, using infographics, non-fiction texts and multiple-choice comprehension.
- On Day II – we will address core maths and reasoning rules. Vital topics such as time, fractions, money and geometry will be covered. There will also be a mental maths test, mirroring the assessment. In the afternoon, we will work on verbal and non-verbal reasoning, covering questions in the format and to the level of St Paul’s 7+ assessment.
- The third and final day of the course will feature an assessment in St Paul’s Junior School 7+ format. This assessment will be taken by Dr Tom Parkinson, who will guide students through each section and provide advice and reassurance, to enable the boys to feel fully confident and to perform to the best of their abilities when they face the real thing.
“We have accepted a place at St Paul’s next year. Thank you for all the help throughout last year. You saved us!”
— 8+ Parent
Group Leads
Dr Tom Parkinson
Tom is Winterwood’s co-founder and overseas the entrance exam cohort. Tom has been running educational groups for the past decade, and has created several bespoke learning games which he uses in his group classes. Tom has found that group courses really drive attainment – possible due to the nature of the groups, which are supportive and provide guidance and reassurance, and possible as gameplay is incorporated, which helps to mitigate stress and makes learning fun. Either way, it works!
Laurie Coldwell
Laurie has been tutoring since 2010 and has in excess of 4,000 hours of tutoring experience. He has helped students get into many highly competitive schools at 7+, 10+, 11+, CE, 13+ and 16+ including St Paul’s, Westminster, Wycombe Abbey, Dulwich College, KCS London, Mill Hill, Sevenoaks and Wellington. His style brings together lateral thinking techniques alongside a focus on fundamentals.