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Dear community, I understand this is a very difficult subject, and please know that i am very aware of the different points of view on the matter.


But I would like some recommendation for a private tutor for a 4+ assessment, we are raising DD bilingual, with only french spoken at home, and english at nursery, so i would like her to work with a tutor to be sure she stands a chance on 4+ assessments.


So please if you have any information on this i would really appreciate it.


Thank you

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I would say " pas de panique" :)


I completely understand your concern !! ... as I was really stressed this january when my son (3 yrs and 3 months old) had his assesments in 2 local privates. As you, I doubted about his chances to get in one of those schools, as French is his native language (speaks at home) and English his second language, speaking 4 days a week at the nursery (and with his local friends over his playtime and mummys coffees from time to time...)


Be reassured for your little girl's case: my son went through both of his assesments! and he is normally clever I think, not a little Einstein :)


Also he is not "trained" in English counting/reading/writting etc... as I am not feeling right to stimulate him in a language I am not easy with


I think as french people, we are very worried about those assesments as it's not common in our culture for such young kids... and so different to the entrance rules (and prices!lol) of french privates.


Be reassured except with one private school where I felt it might be a weakness that my son were a foreigner( I'll sent you the name of the school on PM) the 2 others I visited (Dulwich prep included) were absolutely aware to give a chance to a non english native speaker and seemed used to manage those kids and even were quite enthousiastic to count bilingual kids in their schools. Just let well know the staff that your little one is french when you apply(but most of the time it's asking in the applications form) and remenber it to the "assesment teachers" .


And if she can't get through your private wishes, you always have the possibility to apply at WIX bilingual french school on clapham (the application form will take place in April on Lyc?e Fran?ais website for next september entrance).


Finally if you really you need to be helped, you can visit West dulwich forum website, a company has adverted few weeks ago to train parents/kids for assesment..


Bonne courage je compatis ? vos inqui?tudes! mais tout se passera bien j'en suis certaine :)

Val?rie

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