year 123 etc instead of Prm123 etc

[lilyliz]

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.

In Scotland we still have Primary 1, 2 3 etc

And Secondary 1,2,3 etc

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

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

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.

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

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.

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 ) to S2. 'twas most confusing.

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

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.

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

They still have 6th form though

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"

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

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.......

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

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

yy scooby, totally agree.

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.

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"

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

YABU

Obviously.

It isn't australian soap influences.

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

I stand corrected overmydeadbody thank you

it's infant, junior and secondary here

third year is year 9 isn't it?

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...

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.

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