The Secondary School

The full secondary school ranges from 11 to 18. Children go to a grammar school (about 4 %), to a comprehensive (about 90 %) school or to some other type of school (about 6 %). The ‘core’ subjects in the study program are English, Mathematics and Science.

The academic year has threeterms. After each term pupils have holidays. Christmas holidays begin in mid December, Easter holidays begin in April and summer holidays begin in July. Christmas and Easter holidays last two or three weeks and summer holidays last 6-8weeks.

All schools have their own uniforms which pupils have to wear but in a lot of Sixth forms pupils can wear their own clothes.

At 16 pupils can leave school and get a job or do a vocational course (training for a specific job, generally manual work such as secretarial, trade and commerce, agriculture, gardening, cooking, computing, home economics, automobile mechanics, etc.) or they can continue studying.

The Grammar school prepares for the university. Some of them are state schools and some are private or independent schools. Most of them have 2 sides: a classical side, specializing in ancient languages (Greek and Latin), history and philosophy; and a modern side, specializing in modern languages, natural science and geography. Pupils stay at this type of school from 11 to 16 or 18.

Comprehensive schools (comps) are state schools which combine all types of schools, it has various classes. The pupils study there according to the general program till the age of 15, after that they have special courses depending on their inclination. In comps people often get less choice because they have to stick to the curriculum where as independent schools don’t have to.

On leaving school the pupils who wish to continue their education may attend evening classes which prepare them for a college or a university.

Some people leave school when they are 16 and go to a Further Education (FE) college. Here most of the courses have some kind of practical training, for example, in engineering, cooking or hairdressing.

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