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[–] CileTheSane@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do you give homework over summer? Don't you have a different teacher in the fall?

[–] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't really get what you mean.

[–] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh right, so if you're in year 7, you start year 8 before the summer holidays?

[–] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yeah, 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

[–] blackn1ght@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Where are you in the UK? High school starts age 11 usually.

[–] hellfire103@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

North 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.