British Schools Explained - Anglophenia Ep 25
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- Опубліковано 4 бер 2015
- How much do you know about the U.K.'s education system? Siobhan Thompson teaches you the basics. Study up!
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Who else is British and only clicked on this video to marvel at the various comments below from confused Americans?
Immie B Good God your education system is insane.
KEEP CALM and PLAY SOCCER IN YOUR PAJAMAS Heh, yeah...just like all of us...
Immie B me
Immie B yeah, me too. I love watching videos that explain our british ways to americans.
Me
was any1 else who lives in the UK watching this to see if she was right? xD
I did and it was incorrect ...
XD ikr
She was wrong
Infants are 4-6 I thought? Then juniors seniors
Angie Msp yep, and she was wrong
PRIMARY SCHOOL
nursery - ( 3-4 )
reception - ( 4-5 )
year 1 - ( 5-6 )
year 2 - ( 6-7 )
year 3 - ( 7-8 )
year 4 - ( 8-9 )
year 5 - ( 9-10 )
year 6 - ( 10-11 )
during assembly the year 6's get to sit on benches instead of the old wooden floor. depending on where you live year 6's also get their school uniform signed by their primary school friends before moving up to comprehensive.
COMPREHENSIVE/SECONDARY SCHOOL
year 7 - ( 11-12 )
year 8 - ( 12-13 )
year 9 - ( 13-14 )
year 10 - ( 14-15 )
year 11 ( 15-16 ) when you do your final exams/gcses.
OPTIONAL
year 12 - ( 16-17 )
year 13 - ( 17-18 )
(edit: I guess it's different for everybody but this is just how it was for where I live)
Well I didn't get to sit on a bench as a year 6 but apart from that you're correct.
cassia *-cough-* well in Scotland we don't have reception we have seven years in primary school and in secondary school is s1 then s2 ect. Get it? Primary is as In p and secondary is as in s
cassia in year 6 when we got our shirts signed this little year 3 was writing kick me on some of us and one of the teachers turned it into a love heart and some Chinese words that she knew (I can't remember what it said)
I live in England and where I live nursery was never part of primary school. I didn't even go to one, I went to a preschool (ages 2-4) and then primary school (4-11) which were completely separate. My primary school was divided in two: infants (Key Stage 1, reception to year 2) and juniors (Key Stage 2, years 3 to 6). It's confusing because there are seven school years in primary school, but the first year is called reception, the second year is called year 1, and so on and so forth. Hope that helps.
cassia yeah it's exactly the same for meee
WAIT PREFECTS ARE AN ACTUAL THING??? I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A MADE UP FUNCTION IN HOGWARTS
I'm British and I didn't even know they were an actual thing
we have them at our senior school
Amelia Amelia I was a prefect at my school before I moved to Sixth Form. Unfortunately it's not as enjoyable as it would be in the wizarding world!
Imagine if they actually built a hogwarts!
Sanne yeah I'm a prefect (I'm in year 11)
She says Britain but she means England. I don't know about ireland or Wales but it's completely different in Scotland.
Well Ireland isn't British only the 6 counties in Northern Ireland are part of the UK. Im pretty sure their schools are very similar to English schools
+Daniel 1992 I assumed that people would know I was talking about northern Ireland.
prigg88 😂😂😂
I knew that Northern Ireland was a part of the UK. haha.
+Daniel 1992 They are, except it's mostly grammar and secondary schools, not comprehensive
Also, British kids don't "graduate", they "leave school" (which means something entirely different in the US).
Yeah we just kinda get our results and leave
We do graduate, but from university; indeed, we don't have a "thing" for just leaving school at 16 or 18. (Though it's increasing, like the "prom", which used to be virtually unknown here.)
Here in India in my school we have head girl,head boy,four houses,house captains,house vice captains, house prefects, prefects or monitors for individual classes and a sports captain. A house tournament is held every year and the winning house gets a house cup. 😀
i have the exact same but in uk like we don't call them prefects we call them head boys and head girl, and all the rest as well
if you look into your schools history you probably find out it was british built and run but kept thr system after India independence
I am British and i don't want to be mean but this video explained it in a really complicated way
Anya I’m still comfused
It honestly did
Yep
thats probably just because we dont really think of the reasoning behind these things in day to day life. she explained it perfectly normally imo
Wait, what? No, we call private schools private schools
I think 'public school' is a term which is being used less and less, but they do mean the same thing. Yeah, it makes no sense. Which'll be why it's being used less now.
In Scotland we've always said Private...
We say both. Most people I know will understand whichever one you use. Public or Private
Beth Parker although people call them private schools still I think she was just going by the correct terminology, which is 'public school'.
public school is basically Eton and a few similar places. I went to a private school for a few years and it was nothing like that.
PRIMARY:
Nursery: Age 3-4
Reception: Age 4-5
Key Stage 1: Age 5-7
Key Stage 2: Age 7-11
HIGH SCHOOL
Year7: 11-12
Year8: 12-13
Year9: 13-14
Year10: 14-15
Year11: 15-16
Sixth Form (Optional) 16-18
Scotland
Primary:
Nursery-3-4
Primary 1 4-5
Primary 2 5-6
Primary 3 6-7
Primary 4 7-8
Primary 5 8-9
Primary 6 9-10
Primary 7 10-11
Secondary:
First year 11-12
Second year 12-13
Third year 13-14
Fourth year 14-15
Fifth year 15-16 (I'am here)
Sixth year 16-17
Also in my school from first to third year you are a junior and fourth to sixth a senior there is a different tie that makes it easier to distinguish who is a junior and who is a senior.
+Saidees Yes because my friend recently moved to Scotland and she told us over the phone, I was quite confused but oh well😂
For me (England)
Nursery: 3-4
Reception: 4-5
Year 1: 5-6
Year 2: 6-7
Middle School
Year 3: 7-8
Year 4: 8-9
Year 5: 9-10
Year 6: 10-11
High School
Year 7: 11-12
Year 8: 12-13
Year 9: 13-14
Year 10: 14-15
Year 11: 15-16
Yeah, I personally had 3 schools, most people in England have 2
Lower Sixth is no longer optional, unless you're doing an apprenticeship. I was the last year group where it was optional, and I'm now in my third year at university.
For me (I went to primary school in England, and secondary school in Wales)
PRE-SCHOOL/NURSERY (optional)
Any age younger than 4.
PRIMARY
Start age 4 - leave age 11.
"Infant years" (Reception, year 1, year 2)
"Junior years" (Year 3 - year 6)
SECONDARY
Start age 11 - leave age 16
Year 7 - year 11
Sixth form. Age 16-18 (optional)
Personally I didn't stay for sixth form and I went to college instead.
I was under the impression that school uniforms were meant to make it harder to judge a student's parent's income.
That's how it works in the US. Schools that use uniforms in the US do it so that kids look basically alike and won't tease each other for not wearing name brand clothes or wear things that identify themselves as part of a gang or clique.
No... that's a post hoc rationalization invented after the fact to justify their continued existence. Fact is school uniforms were never conceived for this purpose. They exist (and alway have) for the express purpose of establishing conformity, authoritarianism and control by the institution. Notice they are not required of teachers?
It's still easy to judge the parents income whilst wearing uniform, you simply take other factors, like how your parents are dressed when picking you up, or dropping you, what car they are driving, or what your out of school activities are for example
@@Anna-dp9nz •Children walk alone after a point, and parents can't be judged by other students
•Until that point, children are usually too young to make fun (or considering children make fun of everything: make fun of knowingly) others' wealth, probably being too young to understand income
•If your concern is teachers mocking parent income, then those teachers probably shouldn't be teachers.
•also who tf asks about what others do in their lives?
@@cerebrummaximus3762
"•Until that point, children are usually too young to make fun others' wealth, probably being too young to understand income"
That is (kinda) true but kids, in my experience, still judged how "rich" others were only based what kind of houses or cars their families could get. Im pretty sure nowadays what phone or gadget you have could also be used to measure if you are the "rich cool kid" or not
"•also who tf asks about what others do in their lives?"
Well probably most people. Friends will always do that. Classmates are still gonna ask what you do outside of school (speaking from my own experience but its probably true for most places) and teachers will always tell students to make presentations and stuff on what you did during holidays
Prefects in my school are kind of ‘cool’ I guess as they get special prefect hoodies, get to skip the lunch line, get to stay inside at lunch and all they have to do is make sure everyone else is either outside at lunch or in the canteen.
Yep same
That public/private thing is only for England and Wales, In Scotland - schools you pay for are private and schools run by the government for free are public. It's really the correct way to describe it.
That is how I do it as well (from England). Private school are the ones no one can afford an d public schools are the ones that everyone else goes to.
That is absolutely incorrect- I don't know where in Scotland you are pretending to be from but public is NEVER used to describe state schools, public is accepted as an alternative for private schools and private schools alone.
+AlbanZap The reason they are called public schools are because they were available to ALL of the fee paying public (and sometimes the poor through scholarships) instead of being based on your religion, as at the time almost all state schools were religious institutions. So while it is archaic, knowing the reason why they are called such allows you to understand why it is considered correct to call private schools public schools.
+AlbanZap the reason private schools are sometimes called public ones because when schools first existed, none of them were free, and thus public means anyone is welcome, so long as you have the cash.
+AlbanZap They were originally called public schools as it was the alternative to private tutors with classes for groups of fee paying students (public). Many of the schools were started by trade guilds about 500 years ago such as haberdashers or taylors. In that time if you could not pay you did not get an education.
*ENGLISH Schools explained.
Scottish schools are very different.
For a start, kids here do National 5 instead of GCSEs, this used to be called Standard Grade. Sixth form doesn't exist in Scotland.
Exactly! We do our Nat 5s at 15/16 then our Highers at 16/17 then pick other subject to take a higher in at 17/18 or take advanced highers at 17/18 or you can leave school at 16 and go to college and then uni
Connelly90 i think you'll find this is pretty much wales and northern ireland as well as england so yes it is 'british schools explained' she did try try to explain scotland and its not anyones fault that scotland trys so hard to be different from the rest of britain.... it annoys me when scots comment like this because they are not the only country that's apart of britain and they feel the need to point this out even though she was talking about the rest of britain not just england!
Connelly90 i get your point, but i'm sick of scots thinking its needed to point out that they are different from the rest of britain, im welsh but i don't feel to point out every difference that we have with the rest of britain because i am british and if someone asks me where i come from when im abroad i say im british. and i get that most of her stuff explains about england, but thats because shes english but she also goes in to detail about the other country's apart of britain as well, but the only reason im saying this is because you all seem to think your better than the rest of britain and like your ashamed of being called british, but saying that its not like i dont get your point
Jadey Carter "but i'm sick of scots thinking its needed to point out that they are different from the rest of britain"
I'm sick of lazy use of "Brit" or "British" causing people to think that "England" and "Great Britain" and "The United Kingdom" are all the same thing.
It's almost like a huge political statement to use "The B-word" in Scotland, so it's natural that a lot of Scots would be a bit annoyed at the whole island's cultures being amalgamated into a single, mostly English one.
"your ashamed of being called british".
That could certainly be the case for many people, but personally I don't like the word "British" being used internationally because it's synonymous with, not just England, but London.
Every single typical "British" symbol or icon that is recognised internationally comes from London, whereas if I define myself as "Scottish" that brings up a whole different set of cultural symbols and icons which are a lot closer to who *I* am. So that's what I choose to use over "British".
I wouldn't say Scots think they are "better" than the rest of the UK, but I would argue that we have a stronger national identity than the other countries in this union.
Connelly90 'but I would argue that we have a stronger national identity than the other countries in this union.' - yep definitely agree with this but because of that it makes scots come across a bit arrogant just like some americans who are very 'country proud'
Who remembers that feeling of pride you'd get after moving from key stage 1 to key stage 2
Hahah summer birthday ppl like me are sitting here like "HAAA I TAKE MY GCSE AT 15 AND A-LEVELS AT 17???"
Hi . Im Amir . Im looking for the one who can help me to improve my english . A.k.yousefi6485@gmail.com
i have summer birthday
loving that pink tie
Thanks!
Anglophenia How about a show on Curry? Smells nasty to me, but okay... I have seen a couple shows by those two female cooks that travel around the country on a motorbike/sidecar.
Hhaa I see what you said there!
Barrie Tingle great I was one one the first cohorts, I started reception in 2000. So I had to take the Year 2, 6 and 8* test. the science was scrapped the when I was in Year 8, but my school had paid for them already so yeah...I don't midn the SATs being used within the school see how a child is doing/placement for next year. ** But for Year 2/6/8 they are used for national stats so the teachers lie to you so then the grades go up because you think average is higher than what it is, just to make the school look better.
*Dorset has a slightly different way of organising school ages groups, so the first year of high school is when we would normally take the test and they were seeing if taking it a year early while in middle school (we'd been there since we were 9) would improve grades.
**Placement can also be bull, because I had low English grades it meant that I couldn't be good at Science either, even though I'd got a good grade in that paper. So I was in 3rd set set out of 5 and it was sooo tedious, I got myself moved up to 1st set as I tokk triple for GCSE.
Barrie Tingle I did SATS in year 6 in 1991 in South Gloucestershire.
I'm British and some of what you said still confused me:/ First, everyone I know calls 'private schools, just that, private schools. Second, secondary school is really up to 16yr olds not 18. After 16 you can go to a sixth form that is not at your school OR a college which is not part of a school to do A levels.
if you call public schools private schools it means you cant afford one lol.
it is confusing though.
Also they didn't point out that many people go to separate 6th form colleges
lena bosnjak in Scotland you go to high school until you are 18, there is no sixth form
No, in 6th year you are 17 unless your birthday is in march-june then you'll be 18 after your birthday
In SCOTLAND you can attend secondary until you are 18 if you want. It is only compulsory to age 16. We don't really do "sixth form colleges" here.
i'm from the UK & remember My Schooldays!,
I remember My Last Fight at School!, The head Master was furious, He Marched Me into His Office & said "What are You Playing at?, You're a Teacher & supposed to set an Example!".
🤣🤣🤣
Wow 🤣🤣
I love how some Americans think prefects, houses, house cup, head girl/boy and common rooms r just a Hogwarts thing 😂
yeah lol
Ikr🤣
Well, not every country have your systems. Other may think your system only Hogwarts things.
@@ikuflies yeah ik thats exactly what I just said haha
@@puddleduck1405 only exist in Hogwarts 🗿
Maybe you could have pointed out that the Scottish school system is completely different from the English one and that it's not just a 'different name for A Levels'?
I knew she wouldn't mention Scotland as someone literally about sit my n5s it kinda annoys me
theres like 2 people in Scotland so it's irrelevant
+yakuza4 haha this made me laugh ( no offence intended obviously aren't two people in Scotland blababaeotvwj...)
+ThePremiumPuppy same my prelims are starting in December😭
+yakuza4 at least know what your talking abt before u make something, Google would've been useful
Also, for confused Yanks, we have Key Stages (KS). Key Stage 1 (KS1) is from Reception to Year 2, then KS2 from Year 2 to Year 6, KS3 is Year 7 to Year 9, and KS4 is Year 10 to Year 11.
In order, these are the years:
Reception (4-5yo), Year 1 (5-6yo), Year 2 (6-7), Year 3 (7-8), Year 4 (8-9), Year 5 (9-10), Year 6 (10-11), Year 7 (11-12), Year 8 (12-13), Year 9 (13-14), Year 10 (14-15), Year 11 (15-16), Lower Sixth (Year 12, 16-17), Upper Sixth (17-18) and finally, University starts it again from Year 1, except it´s called first-year, second-year and so on until you finis your degree (18+)
Also, we take SATs in Year 6, GCSEs (O levels) in Year 11, and A levels in Year 13.
Reception and nursery are 'early years'
Tired mum Yes, but they are technically part of the school system.
+Tired mum arnt reception and nursery known as 'Foundation Stage' well they were in ours anyway 😁
+William Burgess in my sons school, who is four and in nursery, it shows as early years
ah but at my school we start ks4 in year 9 as we chose our option choii at the end of year 8
THANK YOU!!!! I am an elementary teacher in America. I have been curious about this for years! GREAT CHANNEL! I love it!
I'm live in England and since when do we them "state schools" and "public schools".
Finally someone who is just as confused about this as me
@thumbhat1039 @ellar-d7131 As far as official documents and on paper they're referred to as public and state schools. The thought being that public schools are funded by the public and their large tuition fees and state schools are funded by the government
why am I watching this... I'm English!
Because why not?
Same XD
fact check
I'm Welsh. Watch this and see your country vanish!
I watched it to make sure she got it right. My school was VERY different from what she said, but I'm English and when to school in the UK.
You did not explain about British Colleges, people from the US think of Uni when I say I go to College!
Only a few counties in the UK have separate colleges, most people take their A levels at their secondary school.
But yeah, people often make the misconception that you mentioned!
Jacob Myszor
I am not doing A-Levels at College, I am doing a Diploma but I know what you mean but it can still be explained!
That's cos she went to private school and they call it 6th form there she also didn't talk about primary school and secondary school she spoke about juniors and seniors argh.. I've been to both private and state schools and this does wind me up
Jess Bishop The title should have been Secondary Schools explained then not British Schools, if she only spoke about secondary ect!
***** Originally Colleges were a lesser option, and often called 'Tech college' which concentrated on vocational courses, but in the last 15 or twenty years most Tech Colleges have decided to change to 'University' which means that many cities, like mine, have two or more universities. Which is horribly confusing for those applying to join, who find themselves in the wrong building, in the wrong part of town.
I want to teach in England (from Canada), so not only did I have to look up the American comparisons she was making since our schools are different than theirs, but so help me when trying to figure out the ins and outs of the British system!
Schools in my town (Redditch, Worcestershire) are so weird. We have First Schools (4-9) Middle Schools (9-13) and High Schools (13-18). A lot of our high schools are becoming Secondary Schools like the rest of the uk.
They have the same sort of thing near where I live as well
The title should have "minus Scotland" added to it.
More like "minus most of Britain" - it's out of date with the terminology for England, let alone Scotland and Wales.
EDIT: yes, and probably Northern Ireland too. "British" could mean Great Britain, which doesn't include Ireland, so I gave them the benefit of the doubt there.
TheMoonRover minus Northern Ireland
Siobhan and Scotland are mortal enemies like the English and Scots
TheMoonRover
No i watched it when it came out and the Scotland school system was barely included
yes but the US has enough on their plate without thinking about Advanced Highers, Highers and whatever the other one is
This is English schools, its quite different to Scottish schools.
Annie Mac I agree.You stay an extra year at primary in Scotland and our system is known to be one of the best in the world,outranking England by far
+The Scottish Primrose But Northern Ireland still gets better exam results!! Ooooooooooooh *swag music plays in the background*
Aye i know, i have a teacher who is from there and is very proud about that
The Scottish Primrose didn't know you watched this I was just about to teach every freakin' person about Scottish schools
Nursery: it's were you go when your 3-5 and you learn manners and how to play nice (And if you were at my nursery playdough too)
Primary school: you have a variety Of ages from 4 to sometimes even 13 but most if the time 12 and 11. You have seven years at primary school each being known as
Primary one
Primary two
Primary three
Primary four
Primary five
Primary six
And primary seven
Secondary school: you come here for six years after primary school but you get the option to drop out when your sixteen
And that's school in Scotland for you very simple
No its not that it's different its that it's all wrong
I live in South England and nobody says state school. A school that's free and there's no test to get into it (that's a grammar school) is a public school and if you have to pay itsa aprivate school
Yay finally another Siobhan
Great video, and please do the video on British universities.
Cheers! We'll pencil it in.
Anglophenia Is there a reason that there's not a set standardized school system in the UK, or at least in England?
Roller sail With all the different names and testing she describes in the video, it didn't sound as if it were standardized.
Jwb52z It sounds like the national exams are all standardized, but the schools have more freedom in how they get you ready for it.
Dean Winchester You're probably right, it just amazes me that a country could have all these varying ways in the same school system without it collapsing in on itself from mismatch alone, but perhaps with such a small population and very few extremists with pet issues it is possible.
Primary school means it's a combined infants and junior school, otherwise they're called infants or juniors separately.
Which is odd, because in a primary school they rarely call them that now, it's Key Stage 1 and Key Stage 2. Just the separated schools still say Infant and Junior.
Thank you for educating me about my own country's schools.
England schools:
Nursery: 0-4
Primary: 4-11
Secondary: 11-16
Sixth form: 16-18
Sally M w...wat
Primary - 4-11
Secondary - 11-18
@@fxshyy no because sixth form is optional
I know that I am 2 years late, but when you write like that, I have no idea does 11 years old goes to primary, secondary, or both schools, and does 16 goes to secondary or sixth form or both of them.
This is not the uk this is mainly england
It is mostly England and Wales. Scotland and Northern Ireland have different systems
+Yuvann Sayandan I hate how people make out as if Britain is only England and Wales, I really wish more people voted yes to leave the uk and to stay in the European union
Wales has a totally seperate education system to England.
It's a very out of date description of the English education system.
Her name means someone who loves England so she's going to be primarily talking about England, with a few bits about the other countries, she probably only said British because she mentioned the other countries a couple times (at least I think she did, if she didn't I'm sure it was a mistake)
I went to a public school (pre-prep and prep) and it's often a mouthful to explain to other British people who don't understand the public schooling system.
Me too, it's annoying when people correct you, like saying "public schools are free" and I have to say no they are most certainly not!
@@ellacarr9533
You should explain that the “public” in Public Schools goes back to the early 19th century when educational theory first put forward the idea that it was important for boys to learn teamwork by mixing with other boys. This influenced the upper classes to stop educating their sons at home with “private” teachers and instead send them to a “public” school. This was when only the relatively well-off got any sort of education so these schools were fee-paying, privately run institutions and far from public in the modern sense. However, the name stuck and when universal education was brought in, in 1870, the schools they built were called State Schools.
As so often, there’s an historical reason for the usage.
Numerals in Order
1. Primary (First)
2. Secondary (Second)
3. Tertiary (Third)
4. Quadrary (Fourth)
5. Quintary (Fifth)
6. Trebiary (Sixth)
7. Senary (Siefth)
8. Octenary (Eighth)
9. Novonary (Ninth)
ᘔ. Decenary (Tenth)
[]. Elenary (Eleventh)
10. Denary (Twelfth)
And So On
I'm planning to move there when I'm in college or university so would really like a video about British colleges and universities explained.
Public school- free
Private school- paid
Private(public) school; paid
Open schools: free
+Louisa Bell some public schools cost about 150 a month or something but most don't
+Louisa Bell That definition is not correct for the uk.
+Sofia Monkeychops Pounds or Dollars ? Sofia r u British ?
+AMCT 101 uh...yes it is. in London public schools are free (excluding lunch and trips and whatever) and private schools you have to pay a lot!!
Imagine a Swede making a short video about Swedish education and calling it "Scandinavian schools explained". People from Norway, Finland and Denmark would say - "Eh... Hang on".
It's essentially the same thing for Scottish people watching these videos.
Nice explanation. I'm from the Netherlands and I'm really glad we split schools into three basic academic levels.
You take SATs in year six, which is basically mini GCSEs as it helps put you into sets for secondary/seniors 😊
Most of the things here is wrong... to trully explain ENGLISH education system, one must go through it.
×nursery/ pre-school (3-5 mostly, or younger if independent)
×primary school (5-11)
×secondary school (11-16)
×sixth form/ college(16-18). -IT'S THE SAME THING. though a sixth form is joint to a school.
college is just an independent building and not joined to anything.
×university.
you also forgot to mention SATs...
and with that, you forgot to mention that many old schools that were based in a church were sometimes girls schools (not all, but as small majority), later being changed to mix. though there are many all - girls around now but a small number of all- boys schools exist now, mainly only private or academy, and the rest are mix.
THANK YOU!!!! The person in this video said it all wrong
In fact, some English areas still have 'middle' schools too. They usually go Nursery-Primary-Middle-Upper-and then college/uni if the student wishes to.
It's much rarer in Scotland, they tend to do the Primary-Secondary system, and more and more places in the UK are calling Secondary schools 'High' schools like the Americans.
No, not wrong, just incomplete. Been teaching for 40 years and I don't think any of it was actually incorrect
In NI we start primary school at age four unless you where born in the summer as our cut off point is July 1st instead of September 1st
Nope u are wrong
It's:
Nursery: (3-4 year olds)Some private nurseries accept 2year olds in London
Primary: The Infants- 3-5(3-4 is Nursery, 4-5 is Reception) Key Stage 1: Year 1 ( 5-6 y/o) Year 2- (6-7 y/o) Key Stage 2(7-11 y/o) the school year starts in September so say if u were in year 2 you would have left year 2 as a 7 year old in July and would be entering year 3 as a 7 year old if ur birthday is after September but if ur birthday was in September to December u would have turned 8
Then we have secondary which is Year 7 (11-12) year 8(12-13) year 9(13-14) year 10(14-15) year ten is when ur GCSEs start but u can so early GCSEs in year 9, Year 11(15-16) That is when u choose to leave secondary go to the sixth form in ur secondary or go to college
College after year 11 is: year 12 and year 13 that is wear u do ur A Level and if u failed GCSEs u do it again about 2 or 3 times until u pass then u go onto uni (if u want) for a degree or go straight into getting a job or u can relax
I'm from the uk and this confused me haha
I went to play group until I was 4, then went to primary school from 4-11 then a comprehensive secondary school from 11-16 then college from 16-18 lol
So you missed nursery and reception?
Holly Boreham
No? When I was little "play group" was what they now call nursery, they didn't do a lot of childcare for under 3's so I went there until I was 4 like I said. Then I started primary school when I was 4; starting in reception.
Right. I had play group from age 2-3 and nursery after from age 3-4.
katymonkfish Same
katymonkfish same but I go to a grammar school
Senior school? It goes, nursery-primary-secondary-university
secondary is kinda senior school, it just has a lot of people in of loads of ages 11-16 and people can go to collage or 6th form
*college
Where I come from in the UK, these are the names of the schools you would go to (instead of elementary school, middle school, etc.) -
Nursery (0-3)
Pre-School (2-4)
Reception (5)
Infant School (6-7)
Junior School (7-11)
High School (11-16)
Sixth Form (16-18)
Anyone else think she looks not unlike Garth from Waynes World in this video? hehe
Party on Garth
Er... You missed out college... Not everybody goes to sixth form... We don't have any sixth forms near us...
+Lewis Bentley No it's not. Not generally speaking. I.e. 90% of the time. College has a bigger range of subjects to choose from. Sixth forms have fewer subjects because there are fewer teachers.
+Natasha Finch no there can be more subjects in college but people go to college mainly to focus on 1 subject. i think thats what he is trying to say
+SRB No. You go to college to do 4 subjects (AS level- 1st year), then do 3 subjects (continued) at A2 level (2nd year). People come out with 3 ALevels (or 4 if you continued all 4).
OR
You do a Diploma. In which case you are only focussing on one subject. And come out with one certificate
Natasha Finch i said i think that is what HE is trying to say
+Natasha Finch I go to college and you only do 1 subject. except if you didn't pass your maths and English gcse you have to continue doing that
Being a prefect can be pretty cool actually. Depends where you go. At my secondary and sixth form in Year II Prefects got free lunch and in year 12 and 13 they got paid £5 an hour and given that break and lunch were an hour long when put together you did your duty for a day and earned £5 and up to £25 a week. And also you can take GCSEs and A-Levels early (well you used to) for example I took my math, science, psychology and RE GCSEs at 14-15 and my RE AS Level at 16. This was especially common for people who had a home language other then English because typically they got a GCSE and A Level in that before 16. Oh an Sixth Formers may also be able to leave at lunch if they don't have afternoon classes however they may still have uniforms (or as my Sixth Form called it "suggested clothing" that can be anything from a modified uniform of years 7-11 to something resembling business wear). Finally, at some Universities you can have do joint honors with people combining two subjects like English and History and even if you don't with humanities (at least) you can often take modules in other subjects so long as your degree subject remains the majority - I did a history degree and took a module that came under politics and a module that came under English.
P.S - You can do a year abroad at university and typically you can take a language course to improve your skills in that language (if the country doesn't speak English) and potentially add those credits to your degree. This pushes your degree to four years. Most often (as far as I know) people do their year abroad in Europe (particularly Ireland, France and Germany), Canada and the United States.
In the UK, a public school is a HMC (Her Majesty’s Conference) school, a type of private school which has excelled academically or otherwise
I love how she forgot to mention that in a lot of schools being a prefect or a head boy/girl is a fantastic way to become bullied...
angelstouch92 not at my school, the head girl and boy and most the prefects are popular😂
When I went they were in six form so every one in 7-11 didn’t bother them lol
We didn't have them at our high school for exactly that reason. The teachers may as well have given them a cuddle and a kiss in class and told them how much they loved them. Red rag to a bull.
my English school experience/journey :
Kindergarten (age 3-4) - I went to a private school for a year because my mum worked there, instead of going to nursery.
Primary school (age 4-11, reception - yr6)
secondary/high school (age 11-16, yr7-yr11)
sixth form college (age 16-18, yr12-13 or AS and A2)
I'm just about to start my A2 courses.
at GCSE we typically take around 11/12 subjects, all the compulsory ones (maths, English, science ICT & religious studies) plus 4 options, subjects that interest you that you want to study.
at ALevel we typically take 3/4 subjects, usually 4 at AS then 3 at A2. all of which should interest you.
then we can go on to study at university or go into a full time job or apprenticeships.
for some students who go on to study at uni they take a gap year before they start studying, this is so that they can travel, or start earning money or help projects in England or abroad.
also, my prefect experience was standing in pairs at doorways making sure that younger students didn't go where they weren't supposed to go. however we noticed over the years that yr7's kept getting cockier compared to what my year group was like in yr7.
Your religious studies GCSE was compulsory? We could choose to do the half or full GCSE exams although we all did the lessons.
+Kerry Preece I think it was originally so that we could choose to do half or full course, then they changed it so that everyone had to do full course.
+MeganGrace130513 that makes sense I guess. :)
I miss you, Siobahn!
That Oxbridge charges their students 9250 quids a year and HYPSM charge their students more than 50k a year was quite a symbol of difference between the UK and the U.S. system.
00:08 "... to harry potter and the history boys"
I never read that one :')
It's not Harry Potter and the history boys
It's Harry Potter (films/books) and The History boys (play/film)
I am Cherokee and most of us are Anglophiles. This answered my confusion that even my dear Brit friends could not help me with. This series is GOLD
I think it's just different depending on where you live in England. We had a primary school with nursery when we were 3 to 4, then reception from 4 to 5, then primary school from 5 to 11. We then had secondary school or high school from 11 to 16. Some high schools have a sixth form attached, which is the same as going to a separate college from 16 to 18. Then you have uni which is optional.
Actually, as far as I know, Primary school is divided in Infant School (4-7 yo) and Junior School (8-11). At least here in the South where I live.
Here we see a Siobhan Thompson of College Humor in her natural habitat
British subscribers, how about we put our school journeys up? (because it's different around the country)
Mine:
Primary School
Secondary School (left at 16)
College (did a BTEC Extended Diploma, instead of A Levels)
University
Mine:
First School (4-9)
Middle School (9-13)
High School (13-18)
Going to Uni next year
Don't know why its different in my part of England haha
Mine
Primary - 5 - 11
Grammar - 11 - 18 ( including 6th form)
Uni
Also, our 6th form has to wear a uniform
Mine:
Primary School (5-11)
Secondary School + 6th Form (11-18)
University (18-now)
My school journey:
Primary School.
Public, Secondary School.
University (currently in my final year)
(I have know idea what ages I was for each.)
Primary (reception-Year 6)
Surprise change to private system.
Prep school(Year 6-year 8)
Senior school(year 9-year 11)
In my county the school system is different:
First School:
Reception: 4-5 years old
Year 1: 5-6
Year 2: 6-7
Year 3: 7-8
Year 4: 8-9
Year 5: 9-10
Middle School:
Year 6: 10-11
Year 7: 11-12
Year 8: 12-13
High School:
Onwards
Spot on 😊 😉👌
In some countries, school uniforms are used to hide distinctions between the rich and poor. This works well for those who are fashion conscious or affected by limited wardrobes.
Prep, pre-prep... what? WHO CALLS IT THAT?! Nursery, infants, juniors. high school. Sorted (^_^)
Private schools call it prep and pre-prep!
lightisfading they would! :'-)
+lightisfading I have to disagree - 'prep' in a private school is used exclusively to refer to homework. I've never heard of a year group called 'prep'. Our school years were B Block, A Block, O Block, Lower and Upper Sixth (in that order).
I've never come across pre-prep, but what I know from the English schooling system is: Nursery (2-4), Primary school (11-16), College/Sixth Form -at this point you can also move on to an apprenticeship, where you learn about a specific subject that you wish to do as your career, from someone talented and experienced in that field - (16-18). From here onwards, any further education is optional, however you can choose to go on to University, and the age range depends on both what you're studying and what your end goal is.
In my school it is Badgers (2-4), Reception (4-5), Pre Prep: Year 1 (5-6) and Year 2 (6-7), Year 3 (7-8) ... Year 8 (12-13)
This is probably already in the comments, but I'll say it anyway, but there's something you've missed.
Not all senior (where I'm from we call them 'secondary') schools have a sixth form, mine certainly didn't. Even if they do you can choose to go to a college where you'll do your A levels, which depending on the courses are exam and course work based. Although, some colleges do (or in some cases, specialise in) vocational courses, called BTECs or City and Guild Diplomas (while similar, these two are different). These are coursework based and you only do one of them, which will equal 3 A Levels in theory, although a lot of universities aren't so keen on them, preferring to take A Level students.
The vocational courses also have a different grading system. Instead of A B C etc. it's Distinction, Merit, Pass and Fail.
1. what are sets? How many are there? how do you get into different sets?
2. are there community colleges in the uk?
3. can you pick all of your GCSE subjects? what do you do if you fail your GCSE's? Is there a minimum you have to pass?
4. do you get scholarships or financial aid for university?
Anyone have to have 9 stripes visible on their ties?
Ella Rose Nope. I didn't wear a tie at all
Ella Rose we had clip-on ties until you got to year 11 and ONLY if you were a prefect 😂 don't think they trusted us lol
Ella Rose no I have 4
But the stripes are quite far apart
Amazing Kat lol dumb rules
3:20 "Hangover" That means something entirely different in American English. It means waking up after hard partying with a bad headache, severe nausea and feeling like you have fur on your tongue. :)
Same here. But it has two meanings
grayswandir47 In England it does mean that too
LOL. It means both, bro. You think we don't get those kind of 'hangovers' here? xD
in Northumberland where I live, I have first school, middle school, and high school, it will change to primary and secondary soon but at the minute Northumberland is the only county to have this system (I think)
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in terms of sixth form; you can choose whether you go to sixth form, college or an apprenticeship. sixthform usually requires higher grades from GCSEs than colleges in order to be accepted.
So much of this is different to my area and I live in the U.K.
British schools explained
nursery or play group : 3-4
infants school (not always called infants sometimes apart of a juniors school)
reception- 4-5
Year 1-5-6
Year 2-6-7
Junior school
Year 3 7-8
Year 4 8-9
Year 5 9-10
Year 6 10-11
in year 6 you do sats ( pronounced ser ats ) they don't really mean anything the government just wants to see how everyone's doing and making sure each school is doing good teaching.
Senior school (secondary school or High school)
Year 7 11-12
Year 8 12-13
Year 9 13-14
in year 9, now, you pick your options for GCSEs for example I choose: Art, sociology, French and history as well as the core maths English and RS (religious studies)
Year 10- 14-15
Year 11- 15-16
in year 11 you do your GCSEs which help you get onto the collage courses that you want to take. some universities will look at these and others will look at your A levels
sixth form
I'm not entirely sure if sixth form is optional anymore. (some one let me know please :)
Year 12- 16-17
Here you do your AS levels.
Year 13- 17-18
here you do your A2 levels
then university
Well done, this is very well explained! And sixth form/college is compulsory now (I think, as I know for certain u need to stay in an education establishment until you're 18) Also, I like your EastEnders pp!
Ian Beale who pronounced Sats as serats??? We just say it how it looks..
Your right except you now choose options (what you do in GCSEs) in year 8
Ian Beale I'm Scottish we don't get this (we get p7 trips well we get to stay a week somewhere I went to a active pursuits place did some cool stuff whatever)
Also. University in Scotland is free. And amongst some of the best quality universities. So Americans. Feel free to come
It's only free for Scottish citizens. So the English still pay £9,000 p/a and Americans would pay between £15,000 and £25,000.
+Rodger42 meh. Still good quality
Jamie Galbraith It is
+Jamie Galbraith For some reason it's free, I don't get why Scotland has it for free.
For some reason? To try create more social mobility, paying a little more tax and putting a little more of it toward giving free education. Something that could and should be rolled out across the Uk, for some reason it isn't, I don't get why but it's not.
In dorset (a county in south England) our schools work like this:
Pre school - age 3-4
First school- ages 4-9, years 0-4
Middle school - ages 9-13, years 5-8
Upper school - ages 13-16, years 9-11
College or sixth form - ages 16-18, year 12-13
In Scotland
nursury (3-5)
primary (5-12)
secondary (12-18)
But you can leave at 16 (s4) after doing National 5's or 4's or 3's (GCSEs for english people). The year after in s5 you do highers which are a kinda like a levels I'm not sure since I haven't done it yet or if you did a national 4 or 3 in something you can then do a national 5 or 4 in that as well. You can also you a crash higher (doing a higher in a subject you didn't chose in s3 and haven't studied before). (you can drop out after s5 as well) Then in s6 you can either do more highers or advanded highers, it used to be that you would get a 'certificate of sixth year studies'. In s6 you can pretty much do what you want. There is a lot more that I haven't said but that's the basics.
Actually in Somerset they have First Schools (4-9), Middle Schools (10-13) and High Schools (14-18). But that seems to be unique.
Worcestershire have this too. I thought we were the only ones.
+Cheeseanonioncrisps I think they were the first model of comprehensive, we had them in Stoke-on-Trent
I live in Dorset and we also have that system, although we also have primary and secondary schools so it gets quite confusing
Northumberland has scrapped this this year. It's a shame because now kids who went to my first school (turning into primary) and then my high school (turning into a secondary), will be going from a school of around 100 pupils to one with around 2000. It'll be a big shock to the system.
Where in Somerset? I'm near Yeovil and not aware of this...?
in Scotland it's a lot easier it's just primary school P1-P7 (5-12) and high school S1-S6 (12-18)
Brilliant! I think that is how the Brit's would say it. She could talk about anything and make it interesting because of her sharp-witted expressiveness and fun comedic style.
Nice explanation
I'm british and I don't know what a state school is I think it's like a private school...idk
She explained that it was a school managed by the state, not sure if that's true thou
State? But we don't states in the UK unless I don't know about it but states are a US thing i'm confused
The U.s. states are basically a union of countries under the same law, a country typically only have one state and thus only one government-like thing while the us has the government and one for every state.
In the uk it seems like the "state schools" is run by the state
I think i get it
good
I already learned all about this from reading Harry Potter.
Except we call the seconday school years year 7-13 not 1-7
James Lee some public school still use 1st-5th and lower and upper sixth haha just to be confusing
I was trying to simplify it
Except don't forget that we don't take OWLs and NEWTs, they're GCSEs and A levels
Hogwarts is what in the UK would be called a public (i.e. fee paying) school. This would not be typical. Most British pupils would have to learn their OWLs at Secondary School. Seriously, most people learn about other country's education system through films and television programmes. Many children in the UK think that American High Schools are like the one in 'Grease'.
I and my children were schooled through a three tier system. Primary school up to year 4 (age 9), middle school years 5-8 (9-13 yrs) and senior school from year 9. Which I think is very similar to states....
a very informative video!!! Thanx a lot. Would be fantastic if you had time to give one more video lesson on London Sites of Interest?
Siobhan, did you go to school at BHS? I'm sure I bought a scatter cushion from them once.
Jonty Levine what does BHS stand for? The school i was in for year 7 and 8 the initials for it was BHS
I'm from America and have plans on moving over to England after I get my degree in anthropology. I have always been confused on how the British school system works and it makes a little more sense now after watching this.
We get the term "public" school from the fact that these schools were open to any child - whose parents could pay the fees. As opposed to schools which limited their intake to a particular town, church, etc.
Well explained.
I THOUGHT PREFECTS, HEAD BOYS AND HEAD GIRLS WERE ALL JUST THINGS IN HOGWARTS. I am so sorry everyone in Britain.
You're not wrong to have thought that :) A lot of schools don't have Head Boys/Girls. My school only recently introduced the idea as an opportunity for students.
+Sushi subedi Google.
+Sushi subedi I don't remember head girls/boys at my school either, but I was a prefect. And I didn't manage lunch rooms or anything like that. In my school there ware often new kids that joined after the school year started, so when they ware starting out they were assigned to me for like a week. So I would show them what is what, the classrooms, teachers, answer any questions, help with homework in some cases to cach up, etc. It wasn't much work at all and I did get a cool badge ;)
+Gareth Long Well that's more than a bit OTT.
Those prefects may have had mini God complexes but they weren't systematically killing people because of their religion or mental or physical disabilities.
(Granted, it might have felt otherwise to the victims. But gee!)
We have prefects but we don't have cool badges 😢
Before watching this I had no questions about the British school system. Now I have all of the questions.
Like what
luke law If I knew where to begin, I start there. But, I don't know where to begin, so might as well not start at all.
I was offered a position as a 'prefect' although I declined. We had a six form at my comprehensive, there was a uniform but our jumpers were dark blue. Our ties, shirts, skirts, blouses & trousers were the same colours as the rest of the pupils. Our computer studies group only had a ZX81 (the year it came out I believe) & a BBC micro P.C that was it!
There are some schools that are Infants from 4-7, Juniors from 7-11 (there are some Primary schools that have 4-11, also some schools are 4-18)and Secondary from 11-18
Ah, the dozens of confused Americans in the comments lol
the British school system is so confusingggggg lol
Jennifer S Lol xD no its not haha
That's me hahahaha
No separation of church and state in the UK? Wow, I didn't know that!
Anne M.
I'm a German, so whatever history lessons we got on English Renaissance monarchs were brief and superficial. That said, I do know about Henry VIII and his breach with the Catholic Church. I just figured that since this isn't the 16th century, some legislation would have been enacted in the meantime that guarantees freedom of religion, separation of state and church and all that good stuff.
+antred11 Church schools have to follow to the same curriculum as every other school, it's not like they teach religion. Praying at assembly and getting lectured about god is about the extent of it. There is freedom of religion, you can make an Islamic school if you wanted to
+antred11 you don't necessarily have to go to a church school, you could go to a non-religious state/public school
+antred11 In principle there is no separation, but in practice British politics are very secular. You'd never hear a politician talking about their own religious views, for example.
+Luke Rieman Not that separated, high ranking Bishops are entitled to sit in the House of Lords.
The job of a prefect used to be one that was purposeful but in the last half century it has kind of dosed off into becoming corridor monitors like primary school.
Here in the netherlands we first have school where we learn the basics then we go to middle school where we learn more complicated stuff like maths and the history od the netherlands etc. Then when we graduate that(around 16 years old) then we can choose what kind of job we want to do the rest of our lives for example i want to be a nurse. Then we go to university where we learn everything on how becomming a nurse. From the biological part to how to deal with alzheimer and how it works in the brain etc.
+ we can also choose how high the education is (the higher you get tje harder it gets and the more in dept you learn about stuff and the higher your job can get so for example when you do the lowest you can get a hairdresser and a nurse etc and when you choose the highest you can become a doctor or a dentist)
How does it work in there when you want to prepare for your job like a hairdresser?
Junior/senior? I've never heard that used before.
TheObiribea It should actually be Primary/ Senior or Infant/Junior/Senior (senior is usually referred to as secondary school as well).
Primary refers to Reception through to year 6, Infants refers to reception - year 2, Juniors refers to year 3 - year 6 and seniors/secondary refers to year 7 - 11.
College/ sixth form is then referred to in various ways. Upper/lower, A.s./ A Level, 1/2, 12/13...
Then finally university begins the count again at 1- x x=the number of years your course is.
Kindergarten 3-6 years, Primary School 6-12 years, Secondary School 12-16 years.
that sounds about right
I live in UK ... I've just never heard people use junior/senior school. Always primary and secondary. Junior was only used for the upper end of primary school who are not infants. but maybe that's just where I live
+TheObiribea whatever happened to "middle school?" Or am I just really old? Primary - years 1 to 3, middle - 4 to 6 and secondary/senior 7-11. And some primary and middle merged to be called "combined school." Academies were also very rare when I was at school, as were proms. And my year was the first one where they dropped year 12 as compulsory and bumped year 7 upto secondary.
I wish people wouldn't say 'UK.' when their actually just thinking of 'England'. I live in Scotland and most of the things at the start of the video aren't true here
Fascinating!
• a few schools use the term "monitor" (including sub-monitor) instead of "prefect", for the kids given a position (which is, as said here, really mostly unpaid control staff).
• Apart from the "public" school difference (and certainly I concede the US use of the term is easier to understand!), the main - initially, anyway - confusion between US and UK is the use of the word "school". Tertiary education - i. e. starting at about 18 - in UK is almost universally referred to as university, college, or other terms - _never_ school; school would always be taken to mean that below age 18. "Putting your kid through school" is a phrase you'd only get in America, if it meant degree education.
(Confusingly, some colleges/universities might call some of their _faculties_ schools - the school of mathematics, for example. But their students would never say they were "going to school".)