Why does everything get renamed? I can't keep track.

[Yorkshirepudding]

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Flaming bloody Americanisation. That's what it is.

Not american but -

1st year of school is reception year 1 is the 2nd year [double]

god knows what year 12 means in old fashioned terms.

bring back years 1-3 infants 1-4 juniors 1-5 seniors, easy peasy

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One of my current bugbears is that suddenly we 'trial' things instead of 'testing' them.

Yes, school years stil confuse me. Have to start at reception and work my way up each time. 4th year Juniors so much clearer.

But nursery is a bit different from pre-school though in that pre-school is attached to the school. But not going to fight about it.

bloody americans! - george bush said the french don't have a word for entrepreneur

too much american influence

year 12 is lower sixth

i'd never heard of reception till i came on mumsnet! don't think it's ever used up here (central scotland) i had visions of all these children standing in a big hall with a receptionist on the phone.

we had and still have primary's 1-7 and high has always been high school!

day care seems to be creeping in instead of nursery.

Now high schools dont do year 1 2 3 4 and 5, what do they call 6th form? 13th form?

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Sort of along the same lines, I worked in a hotel, 103 bedrooms, knew it like the back of my hand, then some idiot decided it would be a good idea to change all the room numbers

Yes, my mum was a reception teacher - that was the 70s

oh, so whats 5th form called then?

I mean 6th form.

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Or college

my head hurts

my2weegirls
reception, i have the same thought
hanging around in carpetted area with pot plant
in england it means Primary One

we had primary 1-7, high school, and at the same school 5th and 6th years (staying on cause they want to do Highers or sys)
it was easy peasy

starting from scratch here in this strange land england

yorkshire pudding
they say pre schoool and nursery is different round here
preschool geared towards more play
nursery learning through play

confused ... moi....

hairyirene - thank you! and good luck