Entrance Assessment

Summary:

Nursery: Stay & play plus a play based assessment
Reception: Stay & play plus a play based assessment
Infant 1: Informal assessments in reading, writing and numeracy
6+: Formal assessments in English and Maths
At 7+ to 10+: Solihull Entrance Examination
At 11+: Solihull Entrance Examination plus Verbal & Non-Verbal Reasoning and Interview
At 12+ to 14+: Solihull Entrance Examination
At 16+: Interview and GCSE Results
Reference where available

Detailed Assessment criteria:

Nursery	Stay & Play plus a play based assessment
Reception	Stay & Play plus a play based assessment
Infant 1	Informal assessments in reading, writing and numeracy
Infant 2 (6+)	Formal assessments in English and Maths
7+, 8+, 9+, 10+	English (Comprehension and Creative Writing) and Maths (Written)
11+ English:	Task 1: Comprehension of prose passage
	Task 2: Creative/descriptive/original writing (choose from a number of options)
11+ Maths:	Section A: Basic arithmetic
	Section B: Arithmetic and thinking skills
	Section C: Problem solving
11+ Verbal and Non-Verbal reasoning
12+,13+,14+ English:	Section A: Comprehension of passage
	Section B: Creative/descriptive/original writing task
12+,13+,14+ Maths:	Testing arithmetic and more advanced problem solving
13+,14+ Science:	Biology, Chemistry and Physics. Multiple choice and short answer questions
13+,14+ MFL:	Section A: Translating MFL into English
	Section B: Translating English into MFL
16+ (to Sixth Form)	GCSE Results & Interview

All ages calculated as at 1 September

Sample papers are available here

Additional Information

Nursery

Children may join the Nursery in September following their third birthday.

Children are required to attend the Morning Session each day (Monday - Friday, 8.15am - 12pm) during the academic year and from the October half term it will also be compulsory for children to attend the Lunchtime Session (12pm - 1pm) each day for the remainder of the academic year. These sessions include a mid-morning snack and lunch for the children. The Morning Session includes the 15 hours government entitlement.

Additionally, during the summer term children will also be required to attend a minimum of two full days per week to further prepare them for a smooth transition to Reception. You may wish to choose additional sessions over and above the minimum requirements.

For those children hoping to join us in Nursery, they must perform sufficiently well in the Nursery assessment and have supportive reference(s) where appropriate.

Fees per session are inclusive of mid-morning snack and lunch as appropriate.

A chargeable wraparound provision will be made available. Further details can be found at Wraparound Care

Please note that all children must be toilet trained prior to starting.

Morning Session - 8:20am to 12pm
Lunchtime Session - 12pm to 1pm
Afternoon Session - 1pm to 3:20pm
Full time (Monday to Friday - 8:20am to 3:20pm)

Childcare vouchers are accepted in the Nursery only.

Reception

For those children hoping to join us in Reception, they must perform sufficiently well in the Reception assessment and have supportive reference(s) where appropriate.

Please note that all children must be toilet trained prior to starting.

Infant 1

For those children hoping to join us in Infant 1, they must perform sufficiently well in the Infant 1 assessment and have supportive reference(s) from their current school.

Infant 2 (6+)

For those children hoping to join us in Infant 2, they must perform sufficiently well in the 6+ assessment and have supportive reference(s) from their current school.

All Infant 2 pupils must sit the 7+ entrance examination for internal benchmarking purposes, however they will ordinarily transfer to Junior 1 subject to sustained good performance throughout the duration of Infant 2.

Junior School

For those children hoping to join us in the Junior School, they must perform sufficiently well in the age-appropriate entrance examinations and have supportive reference(s) from their current school.

For those pupils who join us in J1 (Year 3), J2 (Year 4) or at the beginning of J3 (Year 5), the Headmaster intends to offer those pupils a place in the Senior School at the end of the first term in J3, following the Christmas term examinations.

Offers of places in the Senior School are subject to sustained good performance throughout the remainder of J3 (Easter and summer terms) and the duration of J4 (Year 6).

For those pupils who join us in J4 (Year 6), the acceptance of an offer at 10+ automatically leads to an offer at 11+.

Pupils will continue to sit our 11+ Entrance Examination in order to compete for scholarships and to provide baseline data for the school.

Senior School

All of our J4 pupils will sit the 11+ entrance examination and interview, regardless of their offer status, so that they can compete for academic scholarships and provide the Senior School with useful benchmark information.

For those pupils hoping to join us in the Third Form (Year 7), they must perform sufficiently well in the 11+ examination, interview and have supportive references from their current school.

For more detailed information regarding entrance at 11+ please refer to Pathways to Senior School at 11+

Sixth Form

In the case of students entering the Sixth Form from other schools, admission is based on interview, reference and GCSE results.

Entry requirements, details regarding subjects and specific subject hurdles may be found in Subject Choices.

A minimum of two Grade 7s and four Grade 6s at GCSE, including Grade 6s in English and Mathematics is required.

General Admissions Information

Our main pupil intake is the first day of the new academic year every September for entry points Reception to UVI.

Children may join the Nursery in the September following their third birthday and children may join Reception in the September following their fourth birthday.

Other admissions during the course of an academic year are by special arrangement with the Headmaster. However, we do not admit pupils during the course of the academic year from Lower Fifth to Upper Sixth.

Parents seeking the admission of their sons or daughters are asked to complete the appropriate online registration form and read the Admissions Policy.

When a place is offered to an applicant, parents are asked to confirm acceptance and to send a confirmation of entry fee. All pupils who are awarded a place are expected to stay until they are at least 16.

All admissions procedures are subject to regular review and may change at any time at the discretion of the Executive Headmaster.

More information is available from the Admissions Registrar, Mrs Nicolette Mullan, on 0121 705 4273, at admissions@solsch.org.uk

To register your child for entry to Solihull School please use our online registration form which can be found by clicking the below link, we look forward to receiving your child's registration form.