11+ Inference Group, Year 6

Date: 25th November 2025 - 25th November 2025

Venue: Great Western Studios, 65 Alfred Road, W2 5EU

Time: 17:00-19:30

Course Fee: £225 incl.

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Course Introduction

On the most taxing English entrance exams, candidates are expected to make inferences, “reading between the lines” to reach a conclusion that isn’t stated directly in the text. This is one of the more advanced skills required of children of this age, and last year exams such as King’s College Wimbledon, Latymer Upper, and the creative comprehension section of the Consortium pre-test, all featured challenging texts and tested this skill. We have also found that making inferences is something that some students have struggled with in our internal assessments and testing.

Course Schedule

This short, one-off evening session will focus on entrance exam inference questions. Examples of questions and texts from previous years’ exams will be used to help prepare students for the level and nature of entrance exam inference questions.

The group will be led by Dr Tom Parkinson, Winterwood’s co-founder and an expert English tutor. Tom founded Winterwood in 2011 and has taught English – both to private students and at university level, whilst completing an English PhD – since 2008. As well as teaching students how to approach these question types, Tom will set and mark an ISEB & Consortium English assessment and provide content which students can work on at home.

“Excellent tutors who go beyond rote learning and really inspire children to improve” – Katie Walker, West London

— Katie Walker - Parent

Group Leads

Dr Tom Parkinson

The group is led by Dr Tom Parkinson, Winterwood’s co-founder and the director of our entrance exam cohort. Tom is an experienced teacher and tutor, with over twenty thousand hours of experience, and has helped hundreds of students pass entrance exams and gain places at their target schools.

Our Cancellation Policy

If you cancel less than two weeks ahead of the start date of the course, the fee is non-refundable and non-transferable to another date or another student.

If you cancel outside of the two week course date, we will happily credit your account to attend a future course.

If you do not show up for a course, you are not eligible for a credit or refund.

Why we charge a cancellation fee

This is to cover the tutors’ reserved time to run a group course, to pay for their time spent pre-planning the class and relevant material, printing fees incurred and the loss of revenue to Winterwood as it is often too late to fill a cancelled space. More importantly, other students miss out on attending a group.