Camp Hill Girls 11+: A Weekly English and Maths Check-In

At the end of a busy week, it can be difficult to tell whether your child needs another practice paper, a clearer explanation or simply a rest. A ten-minute check-in gives you better information: look at a few answers together, choose one useful next step and leave the rest for another week.

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Check the 2027 details first

These details were checked on 23 October 2026. Use the school's current policy and the Foundation's test information before acting, because later intakes may use different dates or arrangements.

Camp Hill Girls has an admission number of 150 for September 2027, with an age-standardised combined score from verbal, numerical and non-verbal reasoning tests.[5]

For this intake, test registration closed at 4pm on 26 June 2026, requests for adjustments were due by 12 June, and the home local-authority preference form is due by 31 October 2026.[5]

The Foundation says the shared test uses two papers of about 60 minutes each and weights English and verbal reasoning at 50%, Maths at 25%, and non-verbal reasoning at 25%.[6]

Families following the 2027 process are now beyond the test date. Concentrate on the official result and preference-form steps. For a later intake, use the structure below only after checking that year's published information.

Bring a small sample, not the whole folder

Choose three or four pieces of work from the week: perhaps one reading passage, a vocabulary activity, a Maths problem set and a short mixed section. A small sample makes it easier to see what happened without turning the conversation into a judgement on every mark.

Ask your child to choose one answer they are pleased with. Let them explain what they did. This often reveals useful strengths that a total score hides: noticing a clue in a sentence, checking a calculation or changing an answer for a sound reason. Start there before discussing corrections.

Ask what felt easy, effortful and confusing

Use ordinary questions:

Which part felt straightforward?

Where did you have to slow down?

Was there anything you did not understand, even after seeing the answer?

What would you like explained before trying again?

Listen for the difference between knowledge and performance. Your child may understand fractions but make a hurried arithmetic slip. They may know the meaning of a word but struggle to use the surrounding sentence as evidence. Those situations need different responses.

Choose one English priority

For reading, inspect how your child reached an answer. If an inference is weak, ask them to point to the exact phrase that supports it and finish the sentence, “This suggests… because…”. If vocabulary is the issue, return to the sentence and discuss clues before checking a definition.

For comprehension choices, ask why the other options do not fit. This turns multiple-choice work into a reading conversation rather than a guessing exercise. Keep the next week's priority narrow: perhaps finding evidence, distinguishing fact from inference or using context to test a word meaning.

A live English lesson example can help you judge whether your child benefits from more explanation before independent practice.

Choose one Maths priority

Look at the written working, not only the final answer. If your child chose the wrong operation, ask them to describe what is happening in the problem before calculating. If the method is sound but the arithmetic slips, use a short set that gives repeated practice with that calculation.

If several topics look shaky, do not add all of them to next week. Choose the one that supports the others. Secure fraction equivalence before pushing into harder fraction operations; revisit place value before expecting reliable decimal calculations. A small foundation repaired well is more useful than a long list of targets.

Decide whether timing belongs next week

Timing is useful only when it answers a question. You might want to know whether your child can maintain careful answer-grid use for ten minutes, or whether they can move on from one difficult item. Use a short, familiar section for that purpose.

If methods are still uncertain, keep the work untimed. If accuracy is secure but pace is uneven, add one brief timed section and review the decisions afterwards. Avoid using a full paper simply because it is the weekend. Longer work should have a clear reason and enough recovery time around it.

Write a plan your child can see

Finish the check-in with no more than three items:

one English focus;

one Maths focus;

one review activity from an earlier week.

Agree when each will happen and keep the sessions short enough to fit around school and family life. NeurofiED's current learning offer is English and Maths only. Choose any verbal and non-verbal reasoning material separately, using the current official test information and your child's needs.

Review the plan, not your child

At the next check-in, ask whether the activities helped. If they were too hard, add explanation or reduce the step. If they were easy and accurate, increase the challenge slightly. If the week was unusually busy, do not interpret fewer completed questions as lost progress.

Keep score changes in proportion. A short practice set is affected by topic mix, tiredness and chance. Look for stronger explanations, fewer repeated mistakes and more confident method choices over several weeks. The aim of the check-in is to make the plan more useful, not to predict an admissions outcome.

The Camp Hill Girls school guide holds the wider school overview and official links. For the next calm step, try a live English lesson and use your child's response to shape the following week.

Official sources

King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls: Admission Policy September 2027

King Edward VI Foundation: Entrance Test Information for 2027 entry