11+ July Holiday Camp (Year 5, Starting Sept 2026)
Date: 13th July 2026 - 17th July 2026
Venue: Great Western Studios, 65 Alfred Road, W2 5EU
Time: 10:00 - 15:00 Daily. Final Day 10:00-13:00
Course Fee: £1,265 +VAT
Book a placeCourse Introduction
This lively and engaging holiday camp is designed to enrich the learning of year fours – teaching material in a fun and accessible way which will look ahead to key entrance exam topics in year five.
Each day is themed around a key entrance exam rule or rules, which is packaged in a fun and engaging way – using Lego, measuring jugs, code-breaking and historical mysteries to engage the group!
This content will look ahead to year five and entrance exams, covering core topics. The format of the material will be akin to major entrance exams such as the Consortium assessment and ISEB Pretest.
The learning will be supported by a lively learning game, which will passively teach maths. Students will be able to gain points, exchange these for denominations of play money, and use these to purchase prizes on the last day! The group will use fluctuating exchange rate system, which will correspond with the group performance in the final assessment each day. They will have a real incentive to do well!
Course Schedule
- Day I – the group will focus on English and verbal reasoning. The morning’s focus will be on shuffled sentences – identifying subject, object, verb and type of word to unscramble the sentence – and on verbal reasoning codes, a similar question type. The final assessment will involve cracking a complex code!
- Day II – the group will focus on non-verbal reasoning. They will build cube nets, to learn how to identify opposite faces and adjoining sides, two key rules. Then, in the afternoon, they will work on cubes and counting cubes – building objects out of Lego and working out the total number of cubes used. The final assessment will include Consortium and ISEB cube nets and counting cube questions.
- Day III – the group will look at creative comprehension. This is an English question type which involves source analysis. The group will study famous mysteries, working out which are real, and which are fake! The final assessment will revolve around an infamous historical mystery.
- Day IV – the group will look at maths questions involving measures, mass, volume and capacity. They will estimate animal weights and sizes, and then use measuring jugs to work out volume and to solve tricky volume questions! The final assessment will be modelled on CEM and Eton Test material.
- On Day V the group will hold a final assessment. This will be designed to identify key topics to address at the beginning of year five. Following the assessment, the attendees will be able to use their points to bid for prizes!
“Winterwood tutors are highly recommended. Their group sessions are perfect for boosting knowledge in the key areas, while kids enjoy the competitive environment. Their tutors are very keen and productive!”
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Group Leads
Jacob Shephard
Jacob is a tutor and full-time Education and Exams Consultant who works exclusively with Winterwood. He has been tutoring in London for over a decade, specialising in entrance exams, and he has an exemplary track record. Jacob has a reputation for being friendly but firm with students and open and transparent with parents.
Emma Robson
Emma is an experienced 11+ tutor, and has a great success rate. She is a lively and engaging tutor who has over 5
years of tutoring experience under her belt. As the o-founder of a production company and a sports enthusiast, Emma brings a wide range of interdisciplinary knowledge and passion to her teaching.
Melissa Butcher
Melissa is an experienced 11+ English specialist and has an excellent tuition success rate including St. Paul’s, Westminster, Godolphin and Latymer, Highgate, Kings College Wimbledon, Wimbledon, Dulwich College, Alleyn’s, Sussex House, JAGS. Her tuition blends essential academic content with engaging and interactive resources that resonate with student passions. She also enjoys incorporating her diverse interests- whether literature, sports, or theatre into her teaching.
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.