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Year Final exam Age [23] State funded schools State funded selective schools Fee paying independent schools Early Years: Nursery (or Pre-School) None, though individual schools may set end of year tests. 3 to 4: Primary Lower Infant: Various 'gifted and talented' programmes within state and independent schools. [24] Pre-preparatory Reception ...
From 1900, the Board of Education wanted all children to remain at school until the age 14 but continued to allow most children to leave school at 13 or sometimes 12-years-old through local by-laws. Many working-class parents did not see education beyond basic literacy and numeracy as relevant to their children's economic futures. A focus of ...
Before they reach compulsory school age, ... In 2015/16, the UK spent £3.2 billion on early years education, £27.7 billion on primary education, £38.2 billion on ...
The word is usually used in senior schools (age 11–18), although it may be used for younger children in private schools. As a result, children in their first year of senior school (aged 11–12 years) might be in the first year, third year or seventh year.
Duration (by years) School years (Y) Final exams 3-5 2 (1 compulsory) Nursery and reception Early Years Foundation Stage Profile is completed by the child's teacher at the end of their Reception year 1 5-7 2 1–2 KS1 SATs, Phonics and Reading Check (taken in Year 1 but may be retaken, if the required standard isn't reached, in Year 2) 2 7-11 4
In 1964, preparations had begun to raise the school leaving age to 16 to be enforced from 1 September 1973 onwards. This increased the legal leaving age from 15 to 16 and for one year, 1973, there were no 15-year-old school leavers as the students, by law, had to complete an additional year of education. [36]
Key Stage 4 (KS4) is the legal term for the two years of school education which incorporate GCSEs, and other examinations, in maintained schools in England normally known as Year 10 and Year 11, when pupils are aged between 14 and 16 by August 31. (In some schools, KS4 work is started in Year 9.)
In the state sector, the system was changed for the 1990–1991 academic year and school years are now numbered consecutively from primary school onwards. Year 1 is the first year of primary school after Reception. The first year of secondary school is Year 7. The Lower Sixth (the first year of sixth form) is Year 12 and the Upper Sixth (the ...