Girls at King Edward VI Camp Hill School for Girls grammar in Birmingham have all passed the 11-plus exam, for which many had tutoring. Two years ago, the school began taking 20% of its pupils from the city’s poorest families ADRIAN SHERRATTThe girls sitting in the headmistress’s office at a top Birmingham grammar school, neatly dressed in navy blazers and pleated skirts, are keen to talk about the pressures of sitting the 11-plus and the months of swotting that led up to it. Anna Sutton, 13, spent a year attending Sat­urday classes with 20 other chil­dren. She says the hard work was worth it when she passed. At her primary school she had not felt stretched — “the work was repetitive and aimed at students not as able as me” — but is now gaining in con­­fidence in a class of similarly bright…

Source: The Times September 10, 2016 23:03 UTC