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11+ Preparation · Barkingside, Redbridge

Small-group 11+ preparation, with nothing hidden.

Small classes — never more than eight, most capped at six. The founders teach every session. Fees, class sizes and exam dates published openly — and a progress dashboard you can actually see. The considered, credible path to Redbridge’s grammar and independent schools.

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Applying is free and takes no payment. Or book a mock + diagnostic

Small classes (max 8)Founder-taught, every weekFees published openly

Planting the Seeds of Excellence

Open pricing

Every fee is listed in full — no registration charges, no surprise add-ons, nothing quoted only “on request”.

Small groups

Never more than eight to a class — most capped at six — so the founders know every child’s exact strengths and gaps, and teach to them every week.

Progress you can see

A live dashboard tracks four strands per child — English, Verbal Reasoning, Maths and Non-Verbal. You always know where they stand.

The gap we fill

Between the £15 worksheet centre and the faceless franchise.

Parents preparing for selective schools face a hard choice: cheap and generic, or expensive and impersonal. We built Bloom as the honest option in between — premium teaching, held to a small group, with everything out in the open.

What we compareBudget worksheet centres
Our approach
Bloom Academy
National franchises
Class size20–30 in a roomSmall: 4–8, most just six8–15, varies by centre
Who teachesRotating assistantsThe founders, every weekAssigned tutor, may change
PricingLow headline, unclear extrasPublished in fullSet centrally, varies
Progress you can seeLittle to noneLive 4-strand dashboardPeriodic printed reports
Exam focusGeneric worksheetsMapped to each target schoolOne national scheme

The Bloom System

The precision of one-to-one — at small-group prices.

Most centres teach to the room. We teach to the child. Every pupil is measured, tracked and given work aimed squarely at their weakest topics — not just “Maths”, but “fractions”; not just “English”, but “inference”.

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Diagnostic assessment

Every child begins with a full diagnostic that pinpoints strengths and gaps down to the individual topic.

02

Four strands, tracked

Every mock and piece of homework updates a live profile across English, Verbal Reasoning, Maths and Non-Verbal.

03

Targeted homework

No generic worksheets. Each child’s homework is built to attack their weakest areas first.

04

Parent dashboard

Clear, regular progress you can read at a glance — so you always know what we’re working on next.

Bloom Dashboard · Illustrative parent view

Your child’s four strands

Autumn term · Week 8
EnglishOn track
Verbal ReasoningStrong
MathsFocus: fractions
Non-VerbalStrong
Focus this week: inference & fractionsNext mock: Saturday, 10:00Homework: 3 topics set

Illustrative layout — a sample of the parent view. Not a real pupil’s data.

Founders

Taught by people who sat — and won — these places.

Co-founder & tutor

Haberdashers’-educated

Educated at Haberdashers’ Girls’ School — among the most academically selective schools in the country. She knows, first-hand, the standard a top selective place demands.

Co-founder & tutor

Dr Challoner’s grammar-educated

Came through Dr Challoner’s Grammar School in Amersham — one of the country’s most competitive selective grammars. Knows the reasoning-heavy grammar route from the inside.

Co-founder & tutor

A 90% Chigwell scholarship-winner

Won a 90% academic scholarship to Chigwell School — an award given to a tiny handful of candidates each year. He has been exactly where your child is now.

We sat these exams ourselves not long ago — so we remember exactly what moved the needle and what wasted time. Bloom is the preparation we wish we'd had: small, sharp and completely transparent, run to the same standard we hold in our finance careers.

Meet the founders

Programmes & fees

Four programmes. Every cap and fee, in the open.

Each fee and class size is published here in full — nothing stays hidden. Every programme is small and founder-taught, capped between four and eight by stage.

Years 3–4 · Two-year path

Foundations

Building the groundwork across all four strands, unhurried — the calm, confident start to the journey.

  • —All four strands, from the ground up
  • —Mastery built gradually, no cramming
  • —Best value over the full path
£105/mo
Capped at 8Learn more →

Year 5 · One-year intensive

Flagship

Intensive 11+

The full exam year — structured, exacting and mapped week-by-week to the exam timeline.

  • —Every week mapped to the timeline
  • —For able children sitting this cycle
  • —Strictly limited places
£185/mo
Capped at 6Learn more →

Add-on · Essex CSSE

CSSE Extension

Extended written English and Maths for the Essex consortium — where full, written answers win marks.

  • —Longer written-answer technique
  • —CSSE-format mock papers
  • —Runs alongside the main programme
£95/mo
Capped at 6Learn more →

Independents · Scholarship

Independents & Scholarship

Preparation for Chigwell, Forest and Bancroft’s — with scholarship-level extension for the strongest candidates.

  • —School-specific paper preparation
  • —Interview practice & technique
  • —Scholarship-level extension work
£255/mo
Capped at 4Learn more →

Fees shown per month · No registration fee · No surprise add-ons · Compare all prices

The schools we prepare for

We teach to each exam — not a generic 11+.

Ilford County High

Boys’ grammar · GL

GL Assessment across English, Verbal & Non-Verbal Reasoning and Maths. A qualifying mark of 104 — but a place needs comfortably above it.

Woodford County High

Girls’ grammar · GL

GL Assessment across two multiple-choice papers. Qualifying at 104 — scoring well above the bar is what wins the place.

CSSE — Essex grammars

Consortium · Written

Two written papers in English and Maths that reward extended, well-structured answers — not just multiple choice.

Chigwell · Forest · Bancroft’s

Independents

School-set papers plus interview, sat earlier in January. We prepare a distinct track for the independent route.

The 11+ calendar

Key dates, out in the open.

Spring–Summer · Year 5

Registration opens

Redbridge and CSSE registration windows open; independent-school applications follow in the autumn.

September · Year 6

Redbridge GL exams

Ilford County and Woodford County sit their GL Assessment papers early in the autumn term.

January · Year 6

CSSE & independents

The Essex CSSE papers and the independent-school assessments fall in the new year.

Throughout · Year 6

Offers & appeals

Results and offers follow each exam, feeding into the March secondary-school application.

Exact dates vary each year — always confirm with each school. We map every programme to the current cycle.

Apply for your child’s place.

Applying is free and takes no payment — tell us about your child and we’ll review every application personally. Founding-cohort places are limited. Prefer to see where they stand first? Book a mock + diagnostic.

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