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year 123 etc instead of Prm123 etc

36 replies

lilyliz · 18/11/2010 17:11

anybody else cringe when they hear yr6 instead of prm6 or yr 10 instead of 3rd year,it is all to to with Aussie soaps and has probably come about because kids thought it cool but pesonally I can't abide it and yes I know it really does'nt matter just one of the things that annoys.

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Bathsheba · 18/11/2010 17:13

In Scotland we still have Primary 1, 2 3 etc

And Secondary 1,2,3 etc

NoahAndTheWhale · 18/11/2010 17:15

It has been year 9 etc since my sister was 6. She is 27 now.

2shoes · 18/11/2010 17:15

it has been like that for years, tbh it akes sense if you think about it

BertieBotts · 18/11/2010 17:16

Confused But that's what they are called by the schools themselves! It's always been year 1,2,3 in primary in England/Wales anyway.

lilyliz · 18/11/2010 17:17

Bathsheba I'm in Scotland too,believe me it will come to you:o

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SantasNutellaFairy · 18/11/2010 17:17

It has been like that since around 1991. When I was 12 and they began to use that terminology at my high school. So 2 decades.

BaroqueAroundTheClock · 18/11/2010 17:19

been like it for YR's

I thought it's more "standard" now across England (obviously different in Scotland)

In the space of a couple of yrs I went from YR3, to 8MR (can't remember how it was 8 - but I have it on old school boook still Confused) to S2. 'twas most confusing.

It does make more sense (although I like the Scottish system too - they don't have a "year R").

Rockbird · 18/11/2010 17:23

Why would it annoy you when it's just a system of school years? In my day it was upper fourth, lower fifth, upper fifth etc and I'm not that bleedin' old. By the time I went back into an educational setting as an adult it had changed to year 9, 10 and 11. Such is life.

AgentZigzag · 18/11/2010 17:27

YANBU I hate it too, but then I left in 1987 so anything different is weird and wrong Smile

They still have 6th form though Confused

BaroqueAroundTheClock · 18/11/2010 17:33

Agent - I think it varied around LEA's in the 80's - so if you moved to a different part of the country you could find yourself in a totally different "year"

gapbear · 18/11/2010 17:35

It came in with the National Curriculum in 1991. I went from 4th year juniors to Year 7. It's standard in every state school in England (and Wales?).

YABU

CarGirl · 18/11/2010 17:35

Well we used infants 1,2,3 and then juniors 1,2,3,4 (even though they were all primary schools!)

no reception class

Meanwhile DH was a LEA with a first and middle school so they had 1234, 1234.......

gapbear · 18/11/2010 17:36

(I mean I was a 4th year junior before the summer holidays, then when I started secondary I was in Year 7!)

scoobytoo · 18/11/2010 17:45

And high school what's that about we not not American why can't it still be primary and senior school
And when did pupils become students
And when did prom balls start
Okay I'm showing my age now

AgentZigzag · 18/11/2010 17:49

yy scooby, totally agree.

tb · 18/11/2010 17:50

OMG I must be ancient, I had Kindergarten, Transition, 2A, 2B, Remove, Form 1 and then at secondary school, UIII, LIV, UIV, LV, UV, LVI and UVI, but their forms followed on from the junior school.

I can switch between UIV and 3rd year, but year 10 wtf? Now dd is 13 she is in the fourth year, next year it will be the third, and, as an October baby she is among the youngest in the year. Still, stops my brain from fossilising.

Mowiol · 18/11/2010 17:50

We've always had High School in Scotland by tradition - as well as Grammar, Academy and just plain Secondary

But we were pupils, had school dances/discos and not "proms"

taintedpaint · 18/11/2010 17:52

YABU. It really doesn't matter and it actually makes more sense and is more sensible the way you don't like it.

overmydeadbody · 18/11/2010 17:55

YABU

Obviously.

It isn't australian soap influences.

And it's primary and secondary, not primary and senior.

scoobytoo · 18/11/2010 17:59

I stand corrected overmydeadbody thank you

BaroqueAroundTheClock · 18/11/2010 18:01

it's infant, junior and secondary here Wink

LadyViper · 18/11/2010 18:08

third year is year 9 isn't it?

RJRabbit · 18/11/2010 18:11

I went to school in Australia and we had grades. Maybe there were too many stupid British soaps like Eastenders and Corrie on and they changed it to years...

TheMeow · 18/11/2010 19:07

I'm in England and I've always known it as:

Infants (Reception, Year 1 and Year 2)

Juniors (Years 3 to 6)

Alternatively some schools are "Primary" schools which is all of the above years in 1 school.

Secondary or "High" school which is years 7 to 11.

Sixth form which is years 12 and 13.

tyler80 · 18/11/2010 19:20

YABU, it's nothing to do with Aussie Soaps

I'm 30

We had class 1 - 6 but 7 years known as
Bottom Infants
Middle Infants
Top Infants
First Year Juniors
Second Year Juniors
Third Year Juniors
Fourth Year Juniors

Then secondary school we had
Year 7
Year 8
Year 9
Year 10
Year 11
Although these were often known by their old names (first year etc.)
Then sixth form was
Lower Sixth
Upper Sixth

And High Schools in the UK are different from Secondary schools in my experience

Education in England