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LAMDA Solo Introductory Exams · Gabi’s Speech and Drama Podcast

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  SPEAKER_00: There are three stages, stage one, stage two, stage three.
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  They are all broadly similar in that 50% of the marks are based
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  on a poem that you
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  SPEAKER_00: will find in the anthology volume 20 or,
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  SPEAKER_00: of course,
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  SPEAKER_00: the additional set text list,
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  SPEAKER_00: also known as volume 19.
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  SPEAKER_00: Yeah.
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  There are some rather strange choices in volume 20,
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  which we don't need to go into.
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  But,
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  you know,
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  love and heartbreak for seven year olds is an interesting choice.
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  Let's say,
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  show me knickers to the world,
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  I think is another slightly unusual choice.
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  SPEAKER_00: But,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: there are still some nice poems in the new anthology,
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  SPEAKER_00: so it's worth...
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  SPEAKER_00: I think if you were only going to have one,
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  SPEAKER_00: I'd probably get volume 19.
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  But if you already have volume 20,
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  there are some nice poems in there as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: I'm going to be talking about the solo introductory exams today,
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  SPEAKER_00: but of course there are group introductory exams as well,
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  SPEAKER_00: which can be really fun and beneficial for students.
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  but we tend to focus on solo exams just because it means that
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  each individual child
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  SPEAKER_00: has kind of got a record of their progress going up the years.
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  SPEAKER_00: So I would say that stage one is aimed at...
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  SPEAKER_00: Children in year one at school, so that's five-year-olds rising six.
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  SPEAKER_00: So children that are,
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  SPEAKER_00: you know,
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  SPEAKER_00: depending on when in the year you take the exam,
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  SPEAKER_00: they may have already turned six.
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  But if you aim them roughly at year ones,
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  then you're catching your five and six-year-olds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stage two is for year two, six to seven-year-olds.
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  SPEAKER_00: Stage three is for year three, so...
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  SPEAKER_00: seven to eight year olds.
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  SPEAKER_00: That's obviously rough.
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  SPEAKER_00: There are reception children who are ready to take a stage one exam,
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  SPEAKER_00: maybe because they have an autumn birthday,
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  SPEAKER_00: or maybe just because they're just super bright and precocious.
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  SPEAKER_00: Maybe, you know, often what I find is it's younger siblings.
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  So they've watched their older sibling do their Lambda poem and
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  then they start
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  SPEAKER_00: reciting their big brother or their big sister's poem brilliantly.
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  SPEAKER_00: And the mother sort of thinks, oh, well, she could do it as well.
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  SPEAKER_00: And I think that's absolutely fine.
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  You just have to say to the parent,
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  look,
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  if they are going to go through their stages,
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  SPEAKER_00: stages exams a year early.
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  They won't necessarily always be able to be a year ahead of
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  everybody else.
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  At some point,
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  they may repeat a grade by doing two different subjects in one grade.
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  SPEAKER_00: So they might do grade three or four or five twice.
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  SPEAKER_00: But as long as they're getting high marks and coping,
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  they may just end up moving a grade ahead of the average
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  throughout their Lambda career.
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  SPEAKER_00: It does happen.