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Year 7 Admissions

Dates for Year 7 2025 Assessment Process

Registration Deadline for 2025 Entry	9am, 24th September 2024
Scholarship Deadline for 2025 Entry	9am, 24th September 2024

Our Year 7 assessments are designed for pupils to learn more about life at Dunottar and to enable us to begin to get to know your child and to help us assess their ability to fit into the Dunottar community.

Pupils will take part in our Warrior Learner Assessments, which involve a number of individual and group activities, allowing us to assess their creativity and how they work with other children. No preparation for these activities is required. All pupils will also have a friendly, informal interview with a member of staff.

In addition, pupils will sit academic assessments in English, Mathematics and an online test covering: Verbal, Non-Verbal and numerical exercises. In English and Mathematics the tests are based on the National Curriculum work that the pupils will have been doing in their current school. No special tutoring is required beyond this.

Please contact our admissions team on 01737 761945 for further information regarding the admission process.

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After every workshop/open day/ taster session and even assessment day my son has come away happy and buzzing about what was on offer. Ultimately, this is the reason that we have chosen Dunottar for our son because we believe that he will be happy and excited to engage in everything Dunottar has to offer him. We believe it is a school where his talents will be nurtured and we hope he will continue to thrive. He is thrilled to be joining Year 7 and already can’t wait to start!

The ethos of the school really shines through the admissions process. The fact that the process is split into different days, the children get so many opportunities to come to the school and meet the staff, etc. They came away from each experience really enthusiastic about the school as each assessment was made non-stressful and enjoyable.

We just wanted to say thank you so much for organising the Warrior Learner assessment day so efficiently. Our son loved his morning. He was nervous before we arrived but your whole team do such a fabulous job making them all feel at ease that he said he had really enjoyed it.

Thank you for providing such a welcoming, reassuring atmosphere. You clearly put all the children at ease which enabled them to do their best.

We wanted to thank everyone at Dunottar, who was involved with the Warrior Learning last Saturday. My daughter thoroughly enjoyed her morning and came home buzzing with excitement! The warm, nurturing and fun element definitely shone through and she came home inspired, hugely motivated and with new friends! Assessment days can be so daunting for children, thank you for making this experience such a smooth one.

My daughter thoroughly enjoyed her morning on Saturday and all the activities she participated in. Having been nervous that she didn’t know anyone, she came back having made new friends, which was fantastic.

I wanted to write to you to say how much my son enjoyed his Warrior Learning Assessment. He was alive and full of ideas on the way home, such a wonderful way to conduct an assessment day. Thank you.

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