Sunday, January 24, 2010

Wedding during school term time (UK)

Wedding during school term time (UK)?
Hi I would like to get married at the beginning of September in Spain. My neices (bridesmaids) and nephew are 6 and 9, they return to school in the first week of sept, what is the goverments ruling on kids missing a few days off school to go to an overseas wedding? Is it up to schools discretion? any comments gratefully received!
Primary & Secondary Education - 1 Answers
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Absence is granted at the discretion of the head teacher. You can take your child out of school for a few days but the school does not have to authorise it. If it is an unauthorised absence it will not have much impact on the child - it's more about government funding for the school. If the child has several unauthorised absences in the year the Educational Welfare Officer may be called in to investigate. Some areas of the UK fine parents for unauthorised absences but they need a clear policy in place to do this - a phone call to the education authority for that area will confirm if this is in place and will let you know how much. Schools like to pretend they can randomly fine parents when they wish-this is not the case as I said before. Head teachers are very anti unauthorised absence because if the school has a lot in one year then its funding for staff and resources for the following academic year will be lower. Having said all of that if the children only miss a couple of days it won't really matter.
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Saturday, January 16, 2010

School in the UK

School in the UK?
Does it work like american school where you start with pre school, then head to kindergarden, then grades 1-12. Or is there some other system?
Other - United Kingdom - 3 Answers
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way different. UK starts college earlier and take more tests than american schools that are way harder
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We have nursery from 3-4 or 5. Then they go to "primary school" until 10 or eleven (depending on bday) then we have "upper school or high school" until 16, then they can stay on at high school if they wish and do Alevels, this is called 6th form. Then uni!! hope that helps! xx
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You start off in Primary/Infant School and that is from the ages of four-seven. Then junior school - ages seven 'till eleven. Then five years of high school - eleven until you turn sixteen. After that you have a choice of either going into work or you can further your education by going to College and University.
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There are differences even within the UK. In Scotland you can go to pre-school at 3 or 4 but you don't have to. You start Primary 1 aged four or five, depending when your birthday falls. You then stay at Primary school until Primary 7. You now go to secondary school and you're aged 11 or 12, again depending on when you're birthday falls ie. if you started school at 4 you'll be 11 when you go to secondary school and if you started at 5 you'll be 12 for secondary school. You can go to Secondary school for 4 years, 1st year to 4th year. In 4th year you sit exams. You will be either 15 or 16. After 4th year you can choose to stay on for 5th year, at the end of which you sit more exams. After this you can choose to go back for 6th if you want to at the end of which you sit more exams. 6th year is the final year you can choose to stay for and you will be either 17 or 18 at the end of it. 5th and 6th year are optional. You can choose to do both years or just one. Some stay on and complete them, other's just get a job and other's go to college. After they go to college, some go on to university. Most who complete 5th or 6th year will go on to university but not all do.
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Friday, January 8, 2010

wrestling academy/school in the UK

wrestling academy/school in the UK?
are there any wrestling schools/academies in the south of the UK. Within an hours drive of London?
Wrestling - 1 Answers
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There are a number of wrestling schools in the London area. http://www.ldnwrestling.com/ is the website for the LDN Wrestling Academy, as well as Dropkixx http://www.dropkixx.com/index2.htm There's a list of wrestling schools on Wikipedia, here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wrestling_school#United_Kingdom
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Friday, January 1, 2010

Is school year round in the UK

Is school year round in the UK?
Wondering what the school schedule is in London, England. More specifically if you can tell me Stoke Newington School's schedule (what day does school start, end) that would be great. And yes I looked up hackney (Stoke Newington School) and their site isn't to descriptive of their calendar and it's hard to tell what's school and what isn't. thanks narses I couldn't have asked for a better answer!
Other - United Kingdom - 1 Answers
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The traditional arrangements are that the school year starts in September. The Autumn term lasts until Christmas. There's a half-term break of a week in October and the Christmas break lasts for a fortnight. The Spring term lasts until Easter, whenever that is that year. Again, the half-term break is in the middle, usually in February at some point, and another two weeks over Easter. The Summer term lasts from Easter to late July. Again there's a half-term break of a week and the summer holiday lasts from late July to early September.
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