England to Scotland

[Llawrence23]

Hi ladies, I can see the question has been asked before but I’m still confused! We are military and currently posted in cyprus (schooling is under the English system) we are planning ahead our next move and it might be Scotland. My daughter is in year 4, she will be 9 in May, can someone confirm what primary she would go into in Scotland?! Thank you

I think she would be in p4 right now

Yes, P4 right now, P5 in August.

Yeah she would be in primary 4 .

Thank you very much. So the year and primary would be the same :)

Y4 doesn't = P4 as in England they have a Reception year instead of P1. This means Y4 would be broadly equivalent to P5

The cut off date is different though. The last one of mine in primary school is born at a similar time of year so I worked it out from that.

I changed from Scotland to England and my birthday is at a different point so I remember it confusing everything. I missed out a year!

Http:www.gov.scot/Publications/2012/05/7940/4 explains it a bit

Reception isn't compulsary though is it ? So if a scottish 4 year old goes to a pre school nursery 5 mornings a week it is the same as a rest of uk child going to reception 5 mornings a week.

Reception is the first year of primary school in England so isn't just mornings

Your link didn't work btw

THis is what I originally thought but then was told conflicting information regards birthdays etc! Guess I’ll have to wait until the time actually comes then contact the school. Thank you

Because her birthday is in May she would have started primary 1 age 5 in 2014 (born 2009?) And been one of the older children. She would be due to go into P5 in August 2018.

Ah I see thanks for clearing up my confusion.

www.gov.scot/Publications/2012/05/7940/4 might work

www.gov.scot/Publications/2012/05/7940/4

V weird. Anyway I just googled and it's a scotgov publication which talks about age of starting primary

Instead of being one of the youngest in Y4, she will be one of the oldest in P4 due to the difference in the cut-off dates.

She will still have the same number of years schooling remaining, but will go to secondary a year later because Scotland only has 6 years secondary school (and 7 at primary) whereas England has 7 (5 to GCSEs + 2 in 6th form) (and 6 at primary).

We can argue about whether Reception "counts" - but the fact is that it is not a compulsory year. The equivalent in Scotland is nursery/pre-school - albeit that it is only 30 hours.