Easter Holiday Course – 11+ Group (Year 5)
Date: 15th April 2026 - 18th April 2026
Venue: Great Western Studios, 65 Alfred Road, W2 5EU
Time: 10:00 - 15:00 Daily
Course Fee: £1500 +VAT
Book a placeCourse Introduction
This four-day group is designed to introduce year five students to the format and expectation of 11+ and 13+ entrance exams. The group will be introduced to Consortium and ISEB pretest content. Each day will focus on a specific subject area, and students will be taught to recognise common questions, and be given instructions on how to work through these in intense timed conditions.
Course Schedule
The group will be split over four days. Each day will focus on a different subject area.
Day I – Maths – we will work through common ISEB and Consortium question types, for example those testing fractions, ratios, percentages, data and geometry. In the afternoon we will address word problems, and work on ordering operations and breaking these down into individual stages.
Day II – English – we will focus on multiple-choice comprehension (essential for all pretests) cloze comprehension, a feature of both exam systems, and different types of text – getting used to fiction, non-fiction, poetry and verse.
Day III – Verbal reasoning – we will look at reasoning in CEM and CAT format, comparable to most Consortium and ISEB material, and the St Paul’s Girls’ pretest. We will work through vocabulary based reasoning, such as make a word, synonyms, antonyms, verbal similarities, verbal analogies, and shuffled sentences.
Day IV – Non-verbal reasoning – we will finish by working on both 2D and 3D non-verbal reasoning, reviewing core 2D question types, and working on cubes, cube nets, and figure recognition. The day will end with a ‘mini mock exam’, providing a snapshot of progress over the four days.
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Group Leads
Laurie Coldwell
The course will be led by Laurie Coldwell and Oliver Ford. Laurie has been tutoring since 2010 and has in excess of 4000 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.
Oliver Ford
Oliver has helped students gain places at schools such as Westminster, St. Paul’s, Highgate, UCS and City of London School Boys, alongside helping them achieve prestigious scholarships at schools like Eton. Oliver has well over 2,000 hours of tutoring experience. His teaching style is patient and encouraging, he makes learning fun and creates dynamic resources which contextualise learning within topics that his students require for exams.