Can we have ages instead of school years?

[LadyoftheMercians]

I have no idea how old a year 11 child is? And therefore no clue on of they should be allowed a phone in their room overnight.

Inspired by a thread, not necessarily a TAAT

I think we need to go back to saying things like my 192 month old etc.

It isn’t English centric. We have the same system in Wales!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

@DiscoBobEngland and Wales are similar. Scotland is different (school start age, school leaving age, year numbering, exams taken). Not sure about NI.

Not everyone is from the UK. I'm not.

From what I have read on here, scotland has a different cut off date than england so starting age is different. 4.5 - 5.5 in scotland and 4 -5 in England. I don't know the age for NI.

Scotland has a completely different education system to rUK.

There is often an assumption on here that England = UK.

Ok to me that's still 4-5. Of course I know plenty are not from the UK. But you said different parts of UK had different age starts and I didn't think they did.

I suppose if the older one was held back, but simplistically if birthday before 1st September lower year, and 1st September forward upper year

I dont know why people get so aggressive about it though, im not asking/suggesting you sacrifice your first born, its just easier to digest if you put DS 6 (Y1) or similar.

Do it or dont do it, but you'll probably get better answers if you do.

Yes. Both are normal and natural, so people use whichever they want, which is fine. If other posters need clarification, they can ask or look it up, as they would if they needed clarification on terminology on any other kind of thread.

I'm in Scotland and I don't have a clue about years. So have I to avoid all the English ones? Don't be so ridiculous.

We don't have the year system in Scotland though

Posters may have experience of a 'year 11' child but it's not called that across the whole of the UK (or elsewhere), hence confusion.

In some countries they don't start until 7 (Sweden). This was from 2017.

So now I have to know where you are, then calculate how old this child is, when its just as easy to type it in.

Under new reforms announced by President Macron, French children will start school at the age of three instead of six from September 2019. However, this is only likely to affect a small share of children as most parents already send their children to school at three anyway. Macron said that the change should reduce inequality in education as poorer parents and families in overseas territories are not as likely to send their children to school at an early age.

How does France compare with other European countries? Across much of the continent, including Germany, Italy and Spain, six is the standard starting age. There are some exceptions, however, with children in Latvia and Sweden starting school at seven according to the European Commission.

What country was that?
In English schools pre WW2 "Standard 1" was age 7 (after 2 years of Infants).

There might be a justification for using "Year 11" if the question was posted in Education/Schools forum and the question was relevant to the English school system.

I don't look at those sub forums as my child is all grown up but I still see this "Year 11" nonsense appearing e.g allowed to have a phone/ walk home alone/ do x, y and z. I just ignore the question even if I might have something relevant or who knows, useful to add.

So you can't be bothered to Google it and then add 5 to whatever year you want to know the age of? Or just ask the question of the person who said Y11 "what age is Y11?"

You think it would be better if every one of the 26,000 schools in the country should be bogged down in administration rewriting timetables, re programming homework and updating student records and performance software, putting up new signs around the school. You think everyone of the 0.5m pupils and their 1m parents and their 0.5m teaches should learn the new system .

Luckily I don't think you have the necessary work ethic to end up in charge and maybe it is just as well.

No it’s not. The English, Scottish and Northern Irish systems are all different.

Erm no. OP was asking people posting on mumsnet to state age rather than school year. Not for every school in the country to change their admin system. 🙄

So you can't be bothered to Google it and then add 5 to whatever year you want to know the age of? Or just ask the question of the person who said Y11 "what age is Y11?"

If that reply was to me why the hell should I Google it if the person asking the question can't be bothered to add the essential information about the child's age but can be bothered adding the longer non- essential information about "DD is in Year 11"

The rest of your post is a completely irrelevant straw man.

@MelliC huh?

If you’re interested enough to respond to the thread, it’s not hard to look up.

I suspect this has changed, but when I was at my French primary school in the 1970s, they didn’t think twice to make a child resit the year, sometimes twice.

Or people could just stop writing in spy code and just put a proper sentence.
"My son who is 11 and still at primary school" or "My daughter who is 11 and recently started secondary school".
That's not exactly hard to do.

‘Universally’ known in England and Wales but not Scotland or Northern Ireland.

Different age cut offs and dates) primary can start aged between 4.5 and 6)
’summer born’ is not a thing
no reception class
primary is from P1 to P7
high school is from S1-S6
university lasts for 4 years
exams are National 4s, National 5s, Highers and Advanced Highers which are taken across S4-S6 in 1 or 2 years depending on the individual
our term dates are totally different

and that’s just Scotland - NI is different again

or the OP could just state the age of their child

it’s not that hard

Only if they are run by mumsnet message boards.....

Or no.