Need information about primary schooling

[rwalimbe]

Hi

We are planning to move to Glasgow by April 2019. My kid is in 5the grade in US. Please find below details.

Kids age - 10 years
Current grade 5th
Birth date - August 08 2008.
Born - India Pune
Currently studying in - New Jersey, United States.

Can any one help me to understand how the school admissions processes gets executed in Glasgow?

I think your child will be in Primary 6 if i have worked it out right. do you have an idea of the area of glasgow you want to live in? that way i can try and help out with school etc if you would like me to x

I am looking for Newton Meatns I heard there are good schools

I don't know if my typo mistake makes any change; but the birth date is 4th August 2008.

i am not completely familiar with that area, although i will talk to my friend who is near there. would you consider Bearsden? here is one of the primary schools there:

link

I am looking for good rating schools

Here's all the info on Glasgow council's website.
www.glasgow.gov.uk/index.aspx?articleid=15894
In Scotland, children go to their nearest school regardless of numbers I believe.

Ofsted will be able to provide you with a copy of the latest inspection reports but these may not be recent or indicative of the current situation in any given school. It's best to visit but I appreciate this isn't always possible.

there are a number of primary schools in the bearsden area, you can check which are rated good x

Thanks a lot for the information I will checkout the list.

Right now he is in 5th grade and if we decide to move in March will he get the admission for the remaining year I.e in remaining 5th grade?

@rwlimbe
Your child would currently be in Year 6, if they were in the UK. In England, this is the last year of primary school. I think this is the same in Scotland. Your child will be entering secondary school in September, so you would want to bear that in mind in choosing a location for housing. This is the crucial point, not the four or so months that you have left in whatever primary school you end up in.

Ahh maybe not. It looks like Year 7 in Scotland is still primary school. Ignore me! But - I would still bear secondary schools in mind when you decide where to settle.

In Scotland from which grade the secondary schools starts?

Honestly speaking below are the criteria's which I am looking for my kid.

1. In which grade he will be in if his birthdate is August 4 2008. Currently in US he is 5th grade.

1. Good schools which will motivate him for his sports as well as his studies. As he is junior national badminton player in US.

1. Good area to leave on the basis of the schools.

Your son would be in Primary six when he comes here which would give him another year at primary school. Primary 7 is the last year of primary school. He’d start high school in August 2020.
You normally apply to the school whose catchment area you live in - usually there is a non denominational school and a Catholic school that you would be in the catchment for. You can go to either. There’s no requirement to be Catholic or baptised to get into a Catholic school. You can also put in a placing request to another school and admission would depend on whether they had any places left after all the catchment area children had places.

You can read the school inspection reports at Education Scotland (previous poster mentioned Ofsted but that doesn’t cover Scotland)

found this via google which should help: www.educationista.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/UK-US-Ireland-Australia-school-years-and-grades.pdf

@rwalimbe I am originally from the US (and also grew up in NJ, as it happens.) It's very unlikely that there will be a badminton offering at the level your son is playing at a random high school in the UK (let alone primary school) to support his development. If you have in your head the sort of sports facilities many US high schools offer, be ready for things to be very different here. You won't be able to select a (state) school on this basis.

Generally speaking, many children rely on local clubs for their sports here. I am sure it will be possible to get advanced support for this interest, but if he is playing at that standard - US national level - you really need to take some advice from his coaches and research that more heavily, depending on whether you see it as an ongoing priority for him.

www.badmintonscotland.org.uk/

@OVienna This helps so if anyways I have to work on his badminton in private clubs and that what I think you are suggesting then I need a good rating schools and then I can work with his coaches to find some good private badminton clubs in Glasgow.

Do we have any site like great schools.org what we use in US to check school ratings?

Like PPs have said, your son would currently be in Primary 6 (P6) if he was in a Scottish school right now. The school year ends in roughly the first week of July (different counties have different holidays, but they’re fairly similar overall). The new school year starts in the third week of August (again, different areas have slightly different dates). If you moved mid school year then he’d join the correct year i.e if you moved over in January 2019 then he’d join primary 7. If you moved today then he’d join primary 6.

Primary school starts with Primary 1, and goes up to Primary 7 inclusive.
Then you move up to Secondary school. First year is called first year or S1 (Secondary 1). There are six years in secondary school, then it’s university (if you want. Also, some kids leave at the end of fourth year and do a vocational style course at college or an apprenticeship etc. Some leave in fifth year)

I’m not sure about school scoring to be honest, it’s not really paid much attention to in Scotland because most people just go to the local school or go private.

Regarding sports, it’s more of an out of school thing than in school. Sure, sports are done at school, but at primary school level it really is just tasters and trying to get kids moving. Secondary schools will have a slightly more focused attention on specific sports, but when I was at school it was a term of basketball, a term of volleyball, a term of badminton etc and if you happen to really enjoy one of them then you’d pursue that in your own time.

Good luck with the move!

There is Glasgow School of Sport at Bellahouston Academy in the South side of Glasgow. The website says “There are 950 pupils at the school, of whom one hundred and twenty are sports pupils specialising in one of five key sports. The School of Sport has five sports specialisms, athletics, badminton, gymnastics, hockey and swimming. Pupils specialise in one sport and entry to the School of Sport is by selection only.”
This is secondary school though. Takes pupils from all over so wouldn’t need to live in that area.

OP you're in luck!

My sons birthday is almost the same as your sons! He us in Primary 6 and will move into primary 7 in August. Then high school in August 2020! I'm actually English but live in Scotland....whatever you do don't start looking into the English system ad it's completely different!