11+ Back to School Group (Year 6)
Date: 29th August 2026 - 2nd September 2026
Venue: Great Western Studios, 65 Alfred Road, W2 5EU
Time: 10:00 - 15:00 Daily
Course Fee: £1,875 +VAT
Book a placeCourse Introduction
This essential course, for students staring year 6 in September 2026, is designed to get students ready for the Autumn term – a crucial time immediately before entrance exams, which for most schools will take place in November and December.
Course Schedule
Over the five-days we will cover all four subject areas – English, maths, verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning. It is suitable for students preparing for the Consortium exam, ISEB Pretest, and written entrance exams.
On Day I – we will cover English. We will review different types of texts, multiple choice comprehension, literary analysis and conclude with a short ISEB/Consortium format comprehension exercise, with a composition exercise designed to look ahead to written exams.
On Day II – we will cover Verbal Reasoning. We will look at both quantitative and vocabulary-based verbal reasoning. We will finish with a short exercise in CEM format, for the ISEB, Consortium exam and St. Paul’s Girls’ and City of London pretest.
On Day III we will cover NVR. We will cover both 2D and 3D NVR, including difficult rules such as cube nets, counting cubes, and rotations of cubes. We will finish with a comprehensive NVR assessment.
On Day IV – we will cover maths. We will look at common entrance exam questions, involving data, geometry, time, money, measures and fractions. We will finish with a maths assessment, designed to adapt to introduce challenging material.
On our final day – we will finish with an assessment in ISEB/Consortium format, including a maths puzzle section for the Consortium. We will also complete a short, written exercise, looking ahead to second stage exams following the pretests.
The group will be supported by a lively learning game, Victorian Zoo Baron! Students will earn points which they can use to buy prizes and can redeem these each day or amass points to save up for a grand prize!
“Thank you all for all your help and support through this process, we feel she has really benefited from all the lessons with Winterwood. We are immensely grateful.”
— - Miriam Y6 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
With over 13 years of experience at the highest level, Laurie has established himself as one of the top providers of bespoke private tuition. He has an enviable success rate in achieving school places, with over 95% of his students gaining places at one of their chosen schools. A consummate all-rounder, he has taken pupils from the 7+ right through to acing the Eton List test; he has helped candidates vault multiple grade boundaries at GCSE, as well as coaching and reassuring nervous prospective undergraduates for their Oxbridge interviews.