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Henrietta Barnett School is a grammar school for girls with academy status.. A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically oriented selective secondary school.
LEAs considered grammar areas are shown filled, while circles indicate isolated grammar schools or clusters of neighbouring schools. This is a list of the current 163 state-funded fully selective schools ( grammar schools ) in England, as enumerated by Statutory Instrument .
A grammar school entrance exam, often the 11-plus: 10 to 11 KS3: Year 7: None, though individual schools may set end of year tests, or mock GCSE exams. 11 to 12: Comprehensive or Secondary Lower school Comprehensive, Secondary or Senior Grammar school and selective Academies Year 8: 12 to 13 Year 9: 13 to 14 Upper: Senior (Public/Private school ...
However, some grammar schools were closed, and many were amalgamated with nearby secondary moderns. Opposition developed, mainly on a local level in protest of the treatment of a particular grammar school. Particularly strong opposition was noted in Bristol, after the LEA ended all grammar school education in 1964.
The eleven-plus (11+) is a standardised examination administered to some students in England and Northern Ireland in their last year of primary education, which governs admission to grammar schools and other secondary schools which use academic selection.
The grammar schools debate [1] is a debate about the advantages and disadvantages of the existence of grammar schools in the United Kingdom.Grammar schools are state schools which select their pupils on the basis of academic ability, with pupils sitting an exam (called the 11-plus) in the last year of primary school to determine whether or not they gain a place.
The oldest known grammar handbook is the Art of Grammar (Τέχνη Γραμματική), a succinct guide to speaking and writing clearly and effectively, written by the ancient Greek scholar Dionysius Thrax (c. 170 – c. 90 BC), a student of Aristarchus of Samothrace who founded a school on the Greek island of Rhodes. Dionysius Thrax's ...
Sydney Grammar School (SGS, colloquially known as Grammar) [4] is an independent, non-denominational day school for boys, located in Sydney, Australia. Incorporated in 1854 by an Act of Parliament [ 5 ] and opened in 1857, the school claims to offer "classical" or " grammar " school education thought of as liberal, humane, pre-vocational pedagogy.