Admission into Year 7 in September 2025

The following information is applicable to students joining Year 7 in September 2025.

We are aware there is an issue with booking tickets for the open events but this is due to sheer volume of numbers of people trying to book. However, we have 800 family tickets available so it is unlikely that you would not be able to attend a session, albeit not the session of your choice. We ask that you please be patient and try again later today and please do not ring our Reception team as they can provide no further information on the situation.

Open Events 

Open Day Sessions for Entry into Year 7 in September 2025

Tuesday 23rd & Wednesday 24th April 2024

If your daughter is in Year 5 and showing academic potential at her primary school and has an enquiring mind and a love of learning, we invite you to attend one of our Open Day sessions. You must be living within our designated area to attend one of these sessions. Designated area information can be found here.     

The sessions will take place in either the morning or afternoon and will last approximately 1½ hours. There will be a tour of the school with our students, and a talk by the Headteacher, Ms Kattirtzi and our Student Leader Team. 

If your child has special educational needs and/or a disability (SEND) our Special Educational Needs Coordinator (SENDCo) will be available at the end of session 4 on both Tuesday and Wednesday. 

BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL. Car parking is not available on the school site. We suggest parking in either the Queen's Road car park, or Oracle Shopping Centre car park.

Booking will open on Monday 18th March at midday and tickets are available via the link or QR code below.  You only need to obtain one ticket as this is a family ticket and will gain access for up to two adults and two children. We will be admitting visitors on a ticket only basis. Please do not bring along additional family members as they will not be allowed entry. 

https://www.trybooking.com/uk/DGOQ

Applying to take the Admission Test
 

The online application form will open on 1st May 2024 and close at midnight on 1st July 2024. The link to the application form will be available below.

The admission test will take place at Kendrick School on Friday 20th September 2024.

Please read the following carefully:

  • We strongly advise parents who live outside of the designated area NOT to register their child to sit our test - no candidate, whatever the score they attain, who lives outside of our designated area has been offered a place at Kendrick School since the introduction of the designated area in 2013.
  • The postcodes that are within our designated area can be found here.
  • By registering your child for Kendrick School admission test, we will be unable to accommodate any non-attendance on the test date due to your child's participation in other entrance tests held on the same day. 
  •  The vast majority of individual and groups of grammar schools set their tests in the first two or three weeks of September. There is no liaison between any of them with regard to the day that is selected. It is ultimately for parents to decide which schools they wish to name as a preference for their child, and this may require them making a decision about which grammar school tests their child sits. 

Widening Horizons 

The aim of our Widening Horizons Project is to work with local primary schools to raise the aspirations of local children and to raise awareness of Kendrick School.

For those students who are in Year 5 and are pupil premium, service premium or children in care and live in the school’s designated area and are interested in taking our admission tests, we provide a free familiarisation programme.  The programme starts as soon as you register your child for the admission tests, and includes access to online familiarisation material, face to face and/or online sessions, and workbooks.

We also run hold a virtual Inspire Club on a Tuesday after school for girls in Years 3, 4 and 5 who meet the Widening Horizons criteria.  We have had such positive feedback for the Inspire Club! ‘It wasn’t boring and I had fun!’ and ‘It gave my daughter confidence that she could sit the exam because the familiarisation sessions built on her confidence’. Every Tuesday our students work online with the primary school children on a variety of topics, and once a term we invite Years 3-5 students into Kendrick for face-to-face activities.

For more information on how to register your child for the familiarisation programme and/or Inspire Club please email admissions@kendrick.reading.sch.uk 

Familiarisation Material 

The following information and material is provided by GL Assessment.


We recommend children familiarise themselves with the multiple-choice layout of the test, content and examples of some types of questions they will face. To give all children the opportunity to experience sample questions across a range of question types in advance of the test, we provide 10 hours of free familiarisation materials. These are particularly useful for verbal reasoning and non-verbal reasoning tests as children may not have encountered these types of questions before. The exact timings for, and number of questions in, your local 11+ test may differ from those in our familiarisation and practice materials.

Familiarisation papers and practice papers each provide useful support when preparing for an 11+ test. They differ in the following aspects: Firstly, while familiarisation papers are freely available for download, practice papers are only accessible for purchase. Familiarisation papers are in PDF format for home printing, whereas practice papers come in printed booklet format. Each set has its own exclusive content, ensuring a unique testing experience. Familiarisation papers aim for general familiarity with test styles, while practice papers offer comprehensive preparation, including timed test conditions.

Verbal Reasoning

Parent Guide

Booklet Answer Sheet

Booklet 1

Answer 1
Booklet 2 Answer 2
Booklet 3 Answer 3

Non-Verbal Reasoning

Parent Guide

Booklet Answer Sheet
Booklet 1 Answer 1
Booklet 2 Answer 2
Booklet 3 Answer 3

Maths

Parent Guide

Booklet Answer Sheet
Booklet 1 Answer 1
Booklet 2 Answer 2

English

Parent Guide

Booklet Answer Sheet
Booklet 1 Answer 1
Booklet 2 Answer 2

More information can be found on GL Assessment's website here.