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What year is Lower 5?

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Beetrootccio · 19/04/2007 13:05

school year??

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MerlinsBeard · 19/04/2007 13:08

upper and lower 6th are college so lower 5 would be Y10?

funnypeculiar · 19/04/2007 13:08

In my school it was first year of GCSEs- school started with Upper Thirds -up to Upper Fifth then Sixth Form. No idea why, unless to get to 6 slowly!

ScummyMummy · 19/04/2007 13:09

Year 10, I think?

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Beetrootccio · 19/04/2007 13:09

do you reckon - woudl upper 5 be year year 11 - gcse year?

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MerlinsBeard · 19/04/2007 13:10

thats what i worked it out as beety

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Beetrootccio · 19/04/2007 13:10

blimey can't they just cal it year 10 then

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MrsBadger · 19/04/2007 13:10

usually 1st year of GCSEs
14yos who are rising 15
year 10

MrsBadger · 19/04/2007 13:10

no cos it's not traditional

funnypeculiar · 19/04/2007 13:10

was at my school...

funnypeculiar · 19/04/2007 13:10

to bemuse the lower classes

ScummyMummy · 19/04/2007 13:11

Maybe they are trying to attract ex Mallory Towers fans?

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Beetrootccio · 19/04/2007 13:12

oh yes - perhpaps - seems mad though

dh went to to a school where they had a remove!! FFS

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scatterbrain · 19/04/2007 13:12

I remember when you only ever heard about Year whetever in Neighbours !!! All my schools did it the traditional way !!! I like things traditional myself !

Pamina · 19/04/2007 13:13

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Beetrootccio · 19/04/2007 13:14

but when I was a t school it was 1 - upper and lower 6 - how far back does it have to go to be tradiotinal?

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scatterbrain · 19/04/2007 13:16

Well - we had 5th form which was standard O'lvel year - and I'm afraid Upper Fifth was just the retakers ! So most peeps went straight from 5th form to Lower Sixth, which was also called 6i (six one) and upper sixth was also called 6ii (six two) - and then for A'level retakers there was 6iii (six three) !!

Everyone following ?

ScummyMummy · 19/04/2007 13:18

3rd remove is where Nick and Lawrie were shamefully placed in Autumn Term, Pamina. I presume your Remove was different?

Pamina · 19/04/2007 13:19

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Pamina · 19/04/2007 13:20

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scatterbrain · 19/04/2007 13:20

Dh says that remove was where retakers went at his school !

PrincessPeaHead · 19/04/2007 13:22

well just to confuse matters for us Lower V was 2 years before O levels
upper iv, lower v, middle v, upper v (o levels), lower vi upper vi.

VictorVictoria · 19/04/2007 13:26

PPH that was EXACTLY the same system at my school (famous girsl school in Kent). although I suspect that your "middle v" rather than just "v" suggests they were different schools.......

PrincessPeaHead · 19/04/2007 13:29

yup, I was dorset oooh arrrrr

Issymum · 19/04/2007 13:36

My senior school started at IIIA which always seemed completely barking. Followed by IVB, IVA, VB (Lower Fifth I guess) and 'O' Level year: VA.

DD1's junior school is like Pamina's and starts very confusingly with Kindergarten, progresses through Lower and Upper Transition and then Lower, Middle and Upper Prep before ending with an insane flourish at Form 1.

ScummyMummy · 19/04/2007 13:48

They were twins in an Antonis Forest book, Pamina. V good.