· Year 5 · 24–28 August 2026 · Afternoons · October exams 8 weeks away
Summer Mastery Year 5 (rising Year 6)
No introductions. No re-teaching. Pure refinement at exam level. All 4 subjects assumed known — the question is no longer “does the child understand this?” It is “can the child do this accurately, at speed, in exam conditions?” Day 4 is a full exam day simulation. Day 5 is a personalised September roadmap.
- Three Year 5 Mastery courses across two weeks: Creative Writing (17–21 Aug evenings) + Maths & NVR and Comp & VR (24–28 Aug afternoons)
- Day 4 each course: full exam-day simulation
- Day 5 each course: personalised September roadmap built from paper evidence
- £240 per course · standard price £295 · 3-course Mastery bundle £660 (save £60)
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Afternoons · Creative Writing + Comp & VR · solid foundations required
- October grammar exams are 8 weeks after Mastery ends.
Day 5 is the last time Reena teaches before those exams. The September roadmap is not generic advice — it is built from the Day 4 paper: specific named question types, specific techniques, specific daily practice for the 8 weeks that follow.
£240
£295
per course
£32 per teaching hour · less than half the cost of a 1:1 specialist tutor
| Dates | 17 – 28 August 2026 (two weeks) |
|---|---|
| Format | Live Online · Zoom |
| Group Size | Max 8 Per Group |
| Day 4 | Full Exam Simulation |
| Day 5 | Personalised September Roadmap |
Why parents choose Accelerator over private 1 : 1 tutoring
22.5 hours of exam-pace refinement with a qualified 11+ specialist for £660 — that’s £29 per teaching hour. The same hours of 1:1 specialist tutoring would cost £1,687.50. Mastery delivers something 1:1 cannot: a Day 4 exam simulation in a group of 8, side-by-side review of weak vs strong answers, and a personalised September roadmap with eight weeks until October exams.
What Mastery is
After Mastery, the question stops being "are we prepared?" It becomes "are we ready?" Those are different questions — and after Day 5, the answer to the second one is almost always yes.
Mastery assumes all four subjects are known. No introductions. No explaining what SHAMPOO is. Every session runs at exam pace, in exam format, for your child’s specific target school. Day 4 is an exam. Day 5 is a plan.
SHAMPOO (automatic)
PEE chains (at speed)
School-specific formats
Side-by-side review
September roadmap
THE THREE MASTERY COURSES
Three 5-day courses. Each a complete arc to exam-readiness.
Each Mastery course is a standalone 5-day programme. Take one, two, or all three — the 3-course bundle saves £60 and gives the strongest possible run-up to October exams.
1
Creative Writing Mastery · Week of 17 August
Mon 17 – Fri 21 August · Evenings · 5:00–6:30pm · 7.5 hrs live teaching
Mastery-level Creative Writing for children who already know In the Action Rule, Show Don’t Tell, internal monologue and pace control — the techniques built in the Intensive or in weekly workshops. The question this week is no longer “can the child write?” but “can the child write at exam pace, in their target school’s preferred format, for full marks?” Day 4 is a full timed exam-format write. Day 5 is the September writing roadmap.
| Day 1 · Mon |
Voice and stance — establishing exam-mark authority in the first paragraph Three opening types tested back-to-back at exam pace: physical action, internal thought, sensory detail. First paragraph drilled until the child can write a top-mark opening in 90 seconds. Voice consistency exercise: rewriting the same scene from three different narrators. Children leave with a personal "default opening" they can use under exam pressure. |
| Day 2 · Tue |
Show Don't Tell at speed — sensory layering inside a 25-minute write 5-senses exercise compressed: building a complete world in two paragraphs without ever using "she felt" or "he saw." Internal monologue woven into action — not separated from it. 25-minute timed write with two named techniques pre-committed before starting. Self-edit phase: each child marks their own piece against the official 11+ mark scheme. |
| Day 3 · Wed |
School-specific formats — your child's target school throughout The session that makes Mastery different from everything else. Each child works on their specific target school's preferred format: NLCS narrative, Habs Girls persuasive, St Paul's open-format extended response, QE Boys structured argumentative writing. Backstory weaving and pace control applied to that format. Three openings produced, child picks the strongest. |
| Day 4 · Thu |
Full exam simulation — 25 minutes from cold, exam conditions throughout A genuine exam-format paper, timed from the front, no questions during writing. Then: side-by-side review of the work — own piece next to a top-mark exemplar for the same prompt. Where exactly were marks lost? Was it a planning issue, a technique issue, or a pace issue? The diagnostic this session produces feeds directly into Day 5. |
| Day 5 · Fri |
Personalised September writing roadmap
Built individually from each child's Day 4 paper. Three named techniques to drill weekly between now and October. One opening type to default to under pressure. One mark-scheme criterion to focus on for the eight weeks leading up to exams. Not generic advice — built from paper evidence. Writing is the one 11+ subject where most children plateau in autumn. This roadmap is what stops that. |
In the Action Rule (mastered)
Show Don't Tell (at speed)
School-specific formats
Self-edit against mark scheme
Side-by-side review
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Maths & NVR Mastery · Week of 24 August
Mon 24 – Fri 28 August · Afternoons · 1:00–2:30pm · 7.5 hrs live teaching
PEE assumed. Comprehension at depth — mood, atmosphere, extended response with no scaffold. VR Types 6–10 introduced (missing letters, hidden words, compound words, letter connections, word insertion). Day 3 brings a 25-minute timed write — the longest writing task most Y4 children have attempted. Day 4 introduces the 7-criteria self-edit checklist.
| Day 1 · Mon | Speed-accuracy diagnosis — Maths arithmetic + NVR matrices 50-question arithmetic drill at exam pace to establish the speed baseline. Error analysis: are mistakes method-based or careless-based? They have different fixes. NVR matrices: 12 questions in 12 minutes using Column Method. Speed targets set per child for the rest of the week. |
| Day 2 · Tue | Algebra and word problems at exam pace · NVR series with 4 variables STAR applied to multi-step word problems with embedded algebra — the format Tiffin and Habs use. "Hidden question" technique: the question they need to answer is rarely the one the question paper actually asks. NVR series with 4 simultaneous variables — the hardest NVR question type. Speed targets raised from Day 1 baseline. |
| Day 3 · Wed | School-specific formats — your child's target school throughout Each child works on their target school's specific Maths and NVR weighting. QE Boys: extended arithmetic and reasoning. Tiffin: heavy word problems. Habs Girls: ratio, percentage, geometry depth. St Paul's: pure problem-solving. NVR question type weighting: not all schools test all 21 types equally. The session that makes Mastery different from textbook practice. |
| Day 4 · Thu | Full exam simulation — Maths paper + NVR paper, back-to-back Full Maths paper (45 min) followed by full NVR paper (40 min, 80 questions). No breaks, exam conditions throughout. Then: full side-by-side review — weak answer (1/3 marks) next to strong answer (3/3) for the same question. Where exactly were marks lost? Was it method, speed, or careless error? Different fixes for each. |
| Day 5 · Fri | Personalised September Maths & NVR roadmap Built individually from each child's Day 4 papers. Three Maths topics to practise weekly until October — not generic ones, the specific ones where marks were lost. Three NVR question types to drill by number — by Type 14 (codes) not by name. One method to apply to every Maths problem from now until exams. Built from paper evidence. |
STAR (automatic)
Column Method (3×3)
Anchor Face (nets)
Isolate Each Variable
Hidden Question technique
School-specific weightings
3
Comp & VR Mastery · Week of 24 August
Mon 24 – Fri 28 August · Afternoons · 3:00–4:30pm · 7.5 hrs live teaching
Mastery-level Comprehension and Verbal Reasoning for children who already know SHAMPOO, 5-part PEE chains and VR Types 1–21. The question this week is whether your child can apply those techniques fast enough, accurately enough, on the specific question formats their target school uses.
| Day 1 · Mon |
Comp & VR — speed ceiling raised above GL standard Timed comprehension paper (20 min). SHAMPOO + effect — automatic recall tested, not taught. VR: 40 questions in 20 minutes — above GL standard. Error analysis: is accuracy dropping under time pressure or not? Different fix from slow-but-accurate. Speed targets set per child based on Day 1 baseline. |
| Day 2 · Tue |
5-part PEE chains and inference at depth — exam-pace application 5-part PEE: Point + Evidence 1 + Explanation + Evidence 2 + Conclusion — the sustained-paragraph format NLCS and Habs Girls require. Deep inference: mood, tone, authorial intent. VR Types 14–21 deepened — advanced codes, position codes, double-cipher variants. All applied to a single 25-minute timed paper. |
| Day 3 · Wed |
School-specific formats — personalised per child
Each child works on their specific target school's question format. NLCS multi-part comprehension. Habs Girls argumentative comprehension. St Paul's open-format extended response. QE Boys reasoning weighting. VR question type weighting: school-specific — not all schools test all 21 types equally. This is what makes Mastery different from generic exam practice. |
| Day 4 · Thu |
Full exam simulation — Comprehension paper + VR paper back-to-back Comprehension paper (25 min) followed immediately by VR paper (50 questions / 25 min). No breaks. Exam conditions throughout. Then: side-by-side review — weak answer (1/3 marks) next to strong answer (3/3) for the same question. This is where children stop seeing 11+ as something happening to them and start treating it as a craft they can sharpen. |
| Day 5 · Fri |
Personalised September Comp & VR roadmap Built individually from each child's Day 4 papers. Three VR types to practise — by number, not by name. Two comprehension techniques to apply to every passage read between now and October. One inference rule pre-applied to the Day 4 paper so the child can see it working. Not generic. Built from paper evidence. October is 8 weeks away. |
SHAMPOO (automatic)
5-part PEE chains
VR Types 1–21 (above GL pace)
School-specific weightings
Side-by-side review
What your child leaves with
Three exam simulations. Three personalised roadmaps. Eight weeks of direction.
Three full exam simulations
One per Mastery course your child takes. Each one a Day 4 paper sat back-to-back at exam pace, in their target school’s format, with full side-by-side review of weak vs strong answers.
Three personalised September roadmaps
One per course. Each built individually from your child’s Day 4 paper. Specific question types, specific techniques, specific weekly practice for the eight weeks until October exams. Not generic advice.
An end-of-course written report
Written by Reena overnight on Day 5. One confirmed strength, one Year 6 priority, and a specific recommendation for September — workshops, mock series, or targeted practice. Built from what happened in the room that week.
All sessions use the same named technique framework as our weekly workshops and the Summer Intensive.
parent voice
What Mastery parents say
Year 5 · Summer Mastery 2025
"The September roadmap was specific in a way I hadn't seen before. Three named question types, not 'practise VR.' She knew exactly what to do every day until the exam. That is what made the difference."
Parent, Barnet · Year 5 Summer 2025
Year 5 · Intensive + Mastery 2025
"Day 4 was the turning point. He did a full exam back-to-back for the first time, saw exactly where marks were lost, and came out of it calm rather than anxious. By October he was sitting the real thing the same way. QE Boys was his first choice."
Parent, Southgate · Year 5 Summer 2025
Common questions
Before you book Mastery
What level does my child need to be at for Mastery?
Solid foundations across all four 11+ subjects. Mastery does not introduce techniques — it refines them under pressure. A child who knows what SHAMPOO is but can't apply it in 20 minutes on an unseen passage is exactly who Mastery is for. A child who is still learning what SHAMPOO is should do the Summer Intensive (27 July – 7 August) first.
Can we do Mastery without the Summer Intensive?
Yes — Mastery is a complete standalone for children with solid existing foundations from weekly workshops or term-time tuition. If your child has done weekly workshops through Year 5 and doesn't need the Intensive to build technique, Mastery on its own works. If they haven't done workshops or the Intensive, doing the Intensive first is strongly recommended.
Do we need all three Mastery courses, or can we choose?
Each course is a complete standalone. Pick one, two, or all three. The 3-course bundle (£660 instead of £720) gives the strongest possible run-up to October exams — exam simulations, written reports, and September roadmaps for all four 11+ subjects. If budget requires a choice, Comp & VR Mastery is usually the highest-leverage starting point because it covers two subjects in one course.
What exactly is the "September roadmap"?
A specific, evidence-based document written for each child from their Day 4 paper. It contains exact question types to practise (by number, not by name), specific techniques to apply to every paper read between now and October, and a writing rule already demonstrated on the Day 4 paper. It is not generic advice — it is built from what happened in the simulated exam. October exams are 8 weeks after Mastery ends. The roadmap gives those 8 weeks a direction.
BEFORE YOU BOOK
What parents ask us before booking
We hear these four questions almost every week. Here are honest answers.
"My child is shy. Won't 1:1 be better?"
Many of our most successful children started shy. A group of eight is small enough to feel safe — large enough to build the cohort-confidence they will need on exam day. We have never had a shy child shut down. We have had hundreds open up.
"Won't 1:1 mean the teacher knows my child personally?"
Five consecutive days. Max eight children. An individual written report at the end of each course. By Wednesday your teacher knows your child as well as a 1:1 tutor seeing them once a week — usually better, because there are no week-long memory gaps between sessions.
"Isn't 1:1 the gold standard for serious 11+ preparation?"
The families with the strongest outcomes in our experience use a blend. Small-group specialist teaching for the bulk of preparation. 1:1 only for surgical intervention on a specific weakness. Pure 1:1 is monoculture — not the gold standard.
"My child needs to go at their own pace."
Entrance exams do not adapt to your child's pace. The single most common reason capable children underperform is that they have never practised at exam pace. Our group teaching builds that pressure tolerance with differentiation — extension work for the ahead, more time on examples for the behind, but everyone hits the same exam-pace target by Day 5.
After Mastery
The question stops being "are we prepared?" It becomes "are we ready?" After Day 5, the answer is almost always yes.
Exams start in September. A specific roadmap. One child. One teacher. The last session before the real thing.
Intensive — Jul 27 – Aug 7
All 4 subjects · every technique built · gap analysis after each week · foundation for Mastery
Mastery — Aug 24–28
No introductions · school-specific · Day 4 exam simulation · Day 5 September roadmap · October ready
Intensive + Mastery: Was £1,770 → NOW from £960 · save £810