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.

Be grateful your dc don't go to a Jesuit school. At my nephew's (state) secondary school the year groups are called:

Figures
Rudiments
Lower Grammar
Grammar
Syntax
Poetry
Rhetoric

for Y7-Y13 respectively. A year group is called a Line, and the Head of Year is the Linemaster. Even if it is a woman.

year 10 was lower 5th form in my day :)
We had Reception,Infants1,Infants2.Junior1,2,3 and 4 then secondary school started again.My grammar School was weird-first year was called form2 then 3 then 4 then Lower5th,Upper5th,either lower or middle sixth then Upper Sixth-sheades of Angela Brazil for the masses perhaps

Year 6 (england) is the equivalent of Primary 7 (scotland) so they arent interchangeable.

Thinking more, when I was at primary school, the classes were bottom, middle and top infants then first, second, third and fourth year juniors. But they were called 4P say (if teacher was mrs potter) in bottom infants as you had to be 4 up to 10D for 4th year juniors and Mrs Davies.

Am in Scotland - don't understand all the year stuff - spend a lot of time counting out on fingers trying to work out how old dc's are when reading other posts!

I was born in the 60s and it was infants 1st, 2nd and 3rd year, followed by juniors 1st, 2nd etc and then secondary 1st, 2nd 3rd 4th, 5th then 6th form.

yanbu.

Years 1-3 at infant school

1-4 at junior school

1-5 at senior school

DS starts school next year so I'm trying to get used to all these changes. I left school 20 years ago so it's all new to me.

RJRabbit - hahaha oh so true

I always have to 'translate' for the secondary school years. I know year 7 is first year and then have to work out...you're year 10...ok that's 4th years, you'll be doing GCSE's next year then.

My daughter started a new school and I am really confused by the class names

Foundation 1 ( nursery)
Foundation 2 ( reception) nursery and reception mixed in one classroom of about 50 children and about 5 teachers/tas

My daughters class in called 1/2 then teachers initials ( she is in year one). There are at least two 1/2 classes.

At parents evening i saw classrooms labelled 7s and 7 t??? In a primary school

I'm so confused,