Thread: Can someone explain school years to me?

Originally Posted by xaulleo

I am presuming she is one of the ones in FS2 then. Apparently there is a parents' evening for FS2 children at the beginning of March, but no other parents' evenings.

That would follow that the reception kids parents get seen once in the year. Usually schools have 2 parents evening one before Christmas and one before Easter.

But (whiney voice) why is she reception and not year one, when it's her first year at school??? Surely nursery would be reception in a normal and logical world?!!

Edit: I suspect I am being confused by the fact the school has a nursery for 3 year olds. So I blame the school!!

Because reception isn't year one it's still foundation stage. Imagine it as not part of the school at large. Our Reception class do their own thing, they are separate from the whole school, in as much as they are able to do their own curriculum, own playtimes, decide if they do assembly or not....they even have their own playground.

In other countries it's classed as Kindergarten, so think of it like that and then she starts first grade this september.....

Preschool - foundation 1
Reception - foundation 2 (not key stage 1, part of EYFS or early years foundation stage)
Year 1&2 - key stage 1
Year 3-6 - key stage 2, old juniors, finish primary end f y6
Year 7-9 - key stage 3
Year 10-11 - key stage 4, Gcse done at end of y11
Year 12&13 - sixth form, a levels at end of y13

Imagine how confused I was with their last school... their year one was the rest of the country's reception!

Mollie has a different system again as she has preprep 1-3 which is reception to y2, and then prep 1-4 which is y3-6.

It took me years to learn the English school years system! In Scotland it's primary 1-7 (primary 1 is reception down here) and then High School was 1st year-6th year. They don't generally have separate infants & juniors schools up there.

When I run the country...

Hm I asked this nearly a year ago! I have got it by now, but Hula's list makes it even clearer!!

And thank goodness I did - DD2 is starting Weds and I couldn't figure out from the newsletter which dates and performances applied to her, now I have refreshed my memory and can just about figure it out!!!