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JAPS assessment for FS2

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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 25 January 2011 - 12:35

Does anyone know the ins and outs of the assessment? Heard that 120 kids being assessed for about 50 places - this can't be true can it??? Thats not even a 50% chance of success in a 15 min assessment!!!

Is it just to check that your child doesn't have 2 heads or are they actually 'marking' them? Anyone here have a child fail an assessment and if so, what did they fail on???

Just getting a bit worried about finding school places.

Hopefully some of you have been through the JAPS assessments

Thanks

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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 31 January 2011 - 20:44
I think they do it now so they can assess the same kids who are going for FS1 places elsewhere. If they waited, then those that were unsuccessful would have been stuffed because FS1 entries would have been completed a year previous....
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EW EXPERT
Latest post on 27 January 2011 - 09:27
Thats unbelievable 2 and a half and they expect them to chat away to strangers and they are assessed in one meeting. I remember in the uk with my eldest they came round to your house so the little ones dont get stressed. Im dredding this that i have to send my youngest into full time fs1 at 3 years old just so she gets a school place...luckly shes only 18 months old at the mo.
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 27 January 2011 - 09:01
I'm surprised they were assessing children of 2 and half and just 3 when they don't take children until they are 4+.
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EW NEWBIE
Latest post on 27 January 2011 - 02:31
We went through the assessment last year. I don't really know how many children were being assessed and for how many number of places. What I do know is that the child that went in with DS, didn't make it. Although to be fair he was 6 months younger than DS and 2 and half, in my opinion, is a little too young to be asked about matching shapes and colours, counting, nursery rhymes etc.. And the poor mite kept crying (as he was in unfamiliar surroundings) and really had no hope of making it. Luckily DS was in a good mood that day and decided he didn't need to be scared of the strange person asking him all those questions and was able to count and match shapes and colours and recite some nursery rhymes etc. HTH
 
 

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