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11+ Preparation · Barkingside, Redbridge

Small-group 11+ preparation, with nothing hidden.

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

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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, 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: never more than eight8–15, 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 worksheetsTailored for selective schoolsOne 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”.

01

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
MathsNeeds improvement
Non-VerbalStrong
Focus this week: inference & fractionsNext mock: Saturday, 10:00Homework: 3 topics set

An illustrative sample of the parent view. Not a real pupil’s data.

Founders

Taught by people who sat these exams 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 have sat these exams ourselves, 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

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

One two-year path and one one-year path, and that is the whole offer. Each fee and class size is published here in full, so nothing stays hidden. Both are small, founder-taught and capped at eight.

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
  • Feeds straight into the Year 5 Intensive
  • Best value over the full path
£125/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 exam timeline
  • GL, CSSE written papers and independent formats in one class
  • Streamed Core and Higher by diagnostic
  • Strictly limited places
£250/mo
Capped at 8Learn more →

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

The schools we prepare for

We teach to the exams, 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 starts at 104. Scoring well above that bar is what wins the place.

CSSE (Essex grammars)

Consortium · Written

Two written papers in English and Maths that reward extended, well-structured answers rather than multiple choice alone.

Chigwell · Forest · Bancroft’s

Independents

School-set papers plus interview, sat earlier in January. Prepared inside the main programme, weighted to the schools your child is actually sitting.

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, so always confirm with each school. We map both programmes 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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