Solve an argument/discussion for us please...

[AmazingBouncingFerret]

I am 36 years old and attended school as follows;
1st school was Reception/Yr1/Yr2/Yr3.
Middle school was; Yr4/Yr5/Yr6/Yr7.
Secondary school was: Yr8/Yr9/Yr10/Yr11.

My husband is older. His school years were different and was 3rd year / 4th etc.

What was the equivalent of reception year called for him? He can’t remember and I obviously don’t know because I’m just a mere whippersnapper.

Did he attend school in Scotland? If so it'd be Primary 1/P1.

Did he attend school in Scotland? If so it'd be Primary 1/P1.

Excuse the double post.

No he attended first and middle schools in the same area as I did but the names of the year groups were different due to different times.

Sorry,same area being England.

Infant 1. Followed by infant 2 and infant 3. Then four years in juniors, then secondary. 1st year/form to fifth year, then optional sixth form. Which is where the term 'sixth form' comes from, rather than '12th form'.

I am older than you we had
reception,
then infant one, infant 2,
then junior 1, 2, 3 and 4.

Left aged 11 to go to secondary school which was first year, second year, until 5th year. Then sixth form, lower and upper sixth.

Yes thank you titchy, I said this about 6th form staying the same regardless of the changes made. We just could find the official name for the early years classes

I think titchy is right, no reception just infant 1, because infant 3 sounds right.

Georgie if you don’t mind me asking, how old are you?

Was he in the north east? They have a middle school system. I’m north west: reception,
Middles and tops. Then junior 1, 2, 3 &4. Then 1st yr through to 5th yr and lower and upper sixth

I don't mind, I'm 46.

We had primary class 1-7 (1-3 infants, 4-7 juniors)
Then 1st-5th year secondary, lower 6th, upper 6th.

I am probably older than your dh, but I went to a nursery school, followed by an infant school.
Class 1, class 2, class 3 (today's equivalent of reception, yr 1 and yr 2 KS1)

Then I moved on to a junior school 1st year (current yr3) 2nd year, 3rd year and 4 year (today's yr 6 KS2)

I then moved in to secondary school where the numbers started again - 1st - 5th year (current years 7 -11 KS3 & 4) then lower 6th and upper 6th (ks5)

Hope this helps.

I'm ancient and had 1st yr, 2nd yr and 3rd year infants. Then changed schools 1st to 4th year juniors then started again 1st to 5th year secondary with lower and upper 6th

We had first year infants, second year infants, top infants, first year juniors, second year juniors, third year juniors, top juniors.

Then senior school was 1st year, 2nd year, 3rd year, 4th year, 5th year, lower sixth and upper sixth.

Ok Georgie, so you are a similar age to my husband.
He can’t remember there being a ‘reception’ year group and maintains the first he heard of it was through my children. I’ll let him off if his schooling started at infant 1/2/3!

I admit this is a ridiculous thing to be discussing, obviously lockdown has finally got to us!

When I started teaching in 1991, many areas did not have a reception class, eg Gloucestershire did not have recpetion classes as standard.

I taught in a deprived inner city area, and we did have reception classes.

When my brothers and I started school in early 1970s, we started the term after we were 5, no reception class.

Before years 1-13, and Key Stage 1,2,3,4, etc etc it was
Infant 1 and 2 (todays year 1 and 2)
Junior 1,2,3,4, (todays year 3,4,5,6)
secondary year 1,2,3,4,5 (did O levels in year 5)
sixth form.

Ok he wins.

We had infant school -reception, yr 1 , 2

Junior school year 1,2,3,4

Senior school years 1,2,3,4,5 then sixth form (lower and upper sixth).

I'm 41 and attended morning nursery which is called pre school now and then started first year at infant school just after turning 5.

When I started secondary school they changed how they numbered it so I was 1st year, 2nd year then year 9, year 10 etc.

Hi just retired infant teacher here ( 1978-2017)
In most of my schools pre renaming to early years etc, it was Reception. Followed by middle infants, top infants or just the teachers names.

We were Warwickshire. I started school in 1989 so I must have been one of the first ‘reception’ intakes. I know my year group was definitely the last year to be a year 7 in middle school, so when I went up to a new secondary school as a year eight for the first time, I still had a year group below me.

In our area
Primary schools were
Reception
Infants (years 1,2,)
Juniors (years 3,4,5,6)
Comprehensive's were
Key stage 3 (years 1,2,3)
Key stage 4 (years 4,5)
6th form.
Then it changed to middle school system
First school
Reception, years 1,2,3,4
Middle school
1,2,3,4 (old 5,6,7,8)
High school
3,4,5 and 6th
Now were back to primary and high
R, 1-6 for primary
7-13 for high (although 12 & 13 are still referred to as 6th form)
Key stage 1 was often referred to as infants and key stage 2 as juniors.
Mum taught reception through both changes before she got early retirement nearly 30 years aho

Damn it Amazing I bet you came on here all confident with a I'll show him attitude

I have threatened Dh with "MN jury" before now, he has always backed down.

But I like your gracious acceptance. I have no idea when infants became reception etc, but both nursery and reception come under Early Years so there has to be staff ratios for reception like there are in nursery. Then KS1 is year 1 or infant 2.