a new topic!!

[CocktailQueen]

I thought I hadn't seen this topic before! V helpful, thank you MNHQ.

Ooh. This is new.

I have a Ds at Middle School-Year 7.

Hurray.
One of mine finds out next week which middle school they are going to, is anybody else waiting to find out?
Sparklingbrook, we hopefully will be asking if you have any uniform you want to sell, though I have heard that they are changing the PE kit?

YY Octopus new PE kit for September, only available to buy through school according to today's newsletter. I saw it at Parents' Evening and it looks like DS1's High School kit, and very nice and much smarter than the white polo/navy shorts.

Fingers crossed for you. Can't believe DS2 has nearly finished there.

good to see this ds2 12, is at middle,
ds1 15 at high school.

MNHQ-prehaps we coild have a topic/page for High School pupils too?

So what years are middle school and where are they ( I think my friend in Bedfordshire mentioned they have them)

It depends on the area.

Here we have Years 5, 6 and 7 and off to High school in Year 8.

But some are 5, 6, 7, and 8 and High School Year 9.

Sorry-not sure exactly where they all are.

We're in Herts but the boys go to schools in Bedfordshire.
Both are on the same 'Campus', At the moment, our Middle School is years 5 -8 and the High School they feed into, is years 9 - 12 I think there might be a yr13? at the moment that is
There are plans to turn the middle in to a Primary, Nursery and Pre School, and the High School into a Secondary.

Anew year, as a middle school teacher in Bedfordshire I am quite concerned/ worried about you post as the middle school teachers were all assured that our jobs (in their current state) were safe for the next 5-7 years.

Kayakinggirl, can only go by letters etc sent home,
I understand nothing has been confirmed yet.

We used to live in Mid Beds (now Central Beds I think) and there was debate about 5 years ago in both Bedford Council and Mid Beds about stopping the three tier system and moving to two tier. It seemed the cost implications were what stopped it happening. I have friends there but haven't heard anything about it changing where they are yet.

Looks like Dunstable and Houghton Regis have some two tier and some three tier.

Ooh, I hadn't seen this new topic or this thread before. Is it too late to resurrect it?

Some areas in Bedford Borough are going to two tier from September 2014. Lower schools are becoming primary, upper schools are becoming secondary and middle schools are closing. The middle schools that are closing knew several years ago and started reducing pupilI intake so Kayakkinggirl, if you're still reading, you would have known if it was going to affect you.

That sounds like a big financial investment, quite surprising in this day and age with costs being cut.