English schools versus Swedish schools - differences
How school works in England
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Compulsory between ages 5-16
= 11 years in school
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Year groups – where you
are placed depends on your age September 1, everyone is the same age in a class
·
Primary 5-11 years old Key stage
1 5-7 years – infants
Key stage 2 8-11
years – junior
·
At the end of key stage 2
you take the tests SATS to move on to secondary education
·
Teachers are addressed by
their surname – Mr, Mrs or Miss Smith
·
Secondary 12-16 years old
(or 17 or 18) Key stage 3 12-14 years
Key stage 4 15-16 years
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Teachers are addressed
Miss or Sir
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At the end of school year
11 (aged 16) you do important exams GCSES
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You may choose to leave
school or continue to study further exams to gain entry to college or
university.
·
3 terms and after each
term a holiday and in the middle of each term there is a half term break,
usually a week.
autumn term – Christmas
holiday
spring term – Easter
holiday
summer term – summer
holiday
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For parents – larger schools
have a parent support adviser – PSA – in charge of providing info and support
to parents and carers.
·
If parents don’t speak the
language – some schools might be able to arrange for an interpreter to help
them during parents’ evenings.
·
Public schools in England
are private – pay
·
State schools – run by the
Government - free
School life in England – Secondary schools
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Registration or tutor time
every day – beginning, middle or end of the day
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5 periods of 55 minutes
each
Period 1
Period 2
Morning break
Period 3
Assembly – meeting of teachers and children at set times during the
week. In some schools this includes prayers and religious songs
Lunch break + play time
Period 4
Period 5
Tutor group/end of school registration
·
Subjects ICT – Information and
Communication Technology
(using computers).
PSHE – Personal, Social and Health
Education
and citizen ship
PE – Physical Education – you use a PE-kit, clothes
chosen by the school, a t-shirt, shorts or jogging bottoms. If you want privacy
in changing or covering your body – talk to your form teacher.
·
School meals Choose school dinner (= pay) or
packed lunch.
You can have free school meals if you are asylum
seekers, receive job seekers allowance, receive income support, receive
employment and support allowance etc.
·
School uniform
In most primary and
secondary schools, the uniform – dresses, trousers, shirts, shoes – can be
bought cheaply from supermarkets.
In secondary schools –
sometimes a school blazer with a logo on the pocket.
Some schools are very
strict about the uniform while others are more relaxed.
Sometimes there are second
hand uniforms available, like blazers (expensive).
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