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British School System

posted 19 years ago by WaRuKaWa
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I'm from America where we have a grade system for our schools in three main divisions: elementary school (kindergarten=about age 5-6; and grades 1st-5th), middle school/junior high school (grades 6th-8th), and high school (grades 9th-12th, also known as Freshman, Sophomore, Junior and Senior year, respectively)...one usually begins high school at about age 14-15 and graduates at about 17-18. After reading through all the arguments on these boards about how the girls in the show don't match up with their supposed year in the British school system, I became curious as to how it was set up. I was wondering if anyone could just give me a semi-brief overview the way I just did for the American school system, only for the British system.

[–] WaRuKaWa 19 years ago

...can anyone help, please?

[–] fireispretty 19 years ago

<U>Compulsary</U>
Nursery - 4 until you're 5
Infants - from the first term after your 5th birthday-6
Juniors - 7-10
Comprehensive/High School - 11-16
<U>Optional</U>
College/Sixth Form - 16-18
Uni- 18+

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[–] holz_rules25 19 years ago

yr2-yr6 primary skool
yr7-yr8 intermediate
yr8-yr13 college
yr 13+ University

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[–] monkey_island_parasiempre 18 years ago

Britain doesn't have just one system, a friend of mine in Essex her system was split into two schools:
Primary - starting age to 11
High School - 11-16
With possible sixth form afterwards

In my system in Redditch (near Birmingham) it's split into 3 schools:
Primary - Starting age to 9
Middle school - 9 to 13
High school - 13 to 16

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[–] Mel204 17 years ago

Nursery - 4-5 yrs old
Primary School - 5-11 yrs old
Secondary School - 11-16 yrs old
Sixth Form - 16-18 yrs old

[–] x-x-tahlz_jordz-x-x 17 years ago

at my school in australia we have a big sckool and its divided into 2 parts

prep to year 4- junior school
year 5 to year 10- middle school
and then we go to another school for year 11 and 12

[–] Gemmm-1 16 years ago

Where I live (Wirral) it goes like:
Nursery (opional): 3/4
Primary School: 4/5-11
Secondary/High School: 11/12-16
Sixth Form: 16/17-18 or sometimes 19 if you have to resit your GCSEs.

Like Nursery, Sixth Form is opional and some people may choose go to a further education college, work or get a trade after secondary school instead going to the Sixth Form which is usually attached to their school. The ages of complusory education are 5-16 in England.

http://www.thebreastcancersite.com/

Gemma x

[–] SansaStark 14 years ago

Infants 4-7
Primary 7-11
Secondary 11-16
College 16+
University 18+