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minus-square@CileTheSane@lemmy.calinkfedilink8•10 months agoHow do you give homework over summer? Don’t you have a different teacher in the fall?
minus-squareHellfire103OPlinkEnglish2•10 months agoMy school moves everyone up after the GCSEs and A-Levels are over, which is in May or June. The holiday starts in July. As far as I know, we’re the only school in Britain that does this.
minus-squareHellfire103OPlinkEnglish2•10 months agoInstead of moving up to the next year (the British term for “grade”) in September, we do it after the exams (finals) are over, which is in June.
minus-square@blackn1ght@feddit.uklinkfedilink1•10 months agoOh right, so if you’re in year 7, you start year 8 before the summer holidays?
minus-squareHellfire103OPlinkEnglish2•edit-210 months agoYeah, but high school starts at year 9 (age 13-14), so: (Y9 doesn’t exist for a bit) Y9 --> Y10 Y10 --> Y11 Y11 --> (Either leave school or just take a few extra weeks off) Y12 --> Y13 Y13 --> (Leave school*) This is done because, after the exams, the Y11s and Y13s have no content left to learn, so there’s no point in keeping them at school. Also, as I said, my school is strange for doing this. Most, if not all, other British high schools are normal. *Unless you get held back, stay on for another year, or go to university TL;DR: Yeah, pretty much
minus-square@blackn1ght@feddit.uklinkfedilink1•10 months agoWhere are you in the UK? High school starts age 11 usually.
minus-squareHellfire103OPlinkEnglish1•edit-210 months agoNorth East England. Around here, it goes like this: 4-8 years: First School 8-13 years: Middle School 13-16 years: High School then 16-18 years: College or Sixth Form 18+: University, etc. You are probably used to the two-tier system, with a primary school and a secondary school. Around here, though, we mainly have a three-tier system.
How do you give homework over summer? Don’t you have a different teacher in the fall?
My school moves everyone up after the GCSEs and A-Levels are over, which is in May or June. The holiday starts in July.
As far as I know, we’re the only school in Britain that does this.
I don’t really get what you mean.
Instead of moving up to the next year (the British term for “grade”) in September, we do it after the exams (finals) are over, which is in June.
Oh right, so if you’re in year 7, you start year 8 before the summer holidays?
Yeah, but high school starts at year 9 (age 13-14), so:
This is done because, after the exams, the Y11s and Y13s have no content left to learn, so there’s no point in keeping them at school.
Also, as I said, my school is strange for doing this. Most, if not all, other British high schools are normal.
*Unless you get held back, stay on for another year, or go to university
TL;DR: Yeah, pretty much
Where are you in the UK? High school starts age 11 usually.
North East England. Around here, it goes like this:
then
You are probably used to the two-tier system, with a primary school and a secondary school. Around here, though, we mainly have a three-tier system.