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Year 8 at comprehensive
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How old would someone school student be if they were in year 8 at comp ?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Mike, I'm not a teacher but went to school when it was infants, 1,2 and 3 then juniors 1,2,3 and 4, followed by secondary 1,2,3,4,5 then lower 6th and upper 6th. Much easier to my mind, I just can't get my head round the new way. Even though 6th form is now years 12 and 13, most schools say 6th form in their prosects guides.
Is that in Scotland, Mags?
Here, Primary Year One is not Year 1.
Primary Year Two is Year 1.
So if you are 11 as at September 1st, you go into Year 7.
Although at my goddaughter's old school, she did Infant One, Infant Two, etc ... through to Junior Three and Junior Four.
After finishing J4, she moved schools, and went into Lower School One, and she's just finished Lower School Two.
Why can't everyone just agree on a standard terminology.
Here, Primary Year One is not Year 1.
Primary Year Two is Year 1.
So if you are 11 as at September 1st, you go into Year 7.
Although at my goddaughter's old school, she did Infant One, Infant Two, etc ... through to Junior Three and Junior Four.
After finishing J4, she moved schools, and went into Lower School One, and she's just finished Lower School Two.
Why can't everyone just agree on a standard terminology.
You are quite Rocky, it's still the sixth form, which makes sense to us but must confuse the poor little buggers in Year 11! For some peculiar reason my own school (back in 1960) did not have a first form. New boys entered the second form (first year), followed by the third (second year) and fourth (third year). The fourth year was conveniently called the Remove, so that by the time you entered the fifth form the numbers were back in sync. I never found a satisfactory explanation for this curious terminology, though I am sure that others of my age will recall the Fat Owl of the Remove in the now-banned Billy Bunter books.
When I say banned I really mean Not Available. I defy you to go into any public corporation library or bookshop and ask for a copy. As to why this should be so, the answer is simple; they are God's gift to the PC nutters. Take, what you will, a BB book at random; therein you will find everything to delight the heart of the modern leftie: class snobbery, academic elitism, ingrained racism, mockery of those suffering from eating disorders, sadomasochistic paedophilia et al... I was forced to read these things as a kid, wonder if I can still claim any compo for psychological damage.