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1. Überblick!!!: Since 1995 the DfEE (Department for Education and Employment) is resposable for the school- and education system in the UK. They also manage the financiation for the local education authority. The english school system is international famous and is one of the best on the world. It\'s old traditions like school unifoms and gowns and theire modern school system represants the english life in a good way. At the beginning theres the playschool (Vorschule) which is before primary school.
You can compare it with our \"kindergardens\" or our \"pre-schools\". You start primary school (Grundschule) in the term where you turn 5, there are either public- or private primary schools, at private primary schools you have to pay for the child to go to the school,and the classes are very small (only two classes in each year) there are years 1 till 6 in primary school. In year 10 and 11 you have to take your GCSEs.With this national qualification you can go to a college to take part in a course,where you can do your A-Levels. Students study a 2 year A-Level course, generally choosing 2 to 3 subjects, taking A-Level examinations at the end of Year 13. These qualifications enable students to continue education at a higher level, for example University or to enter a certain workplace.
2. PLAY SCHOOL: The english play school is like our \"pre-school\",You start play school with the age of 3. The kids learn and play from about 8am till 4pm.The play school is very important to the parents because they couldn\'t go to work if their children would stay at home in the day time. PRIMARY SCHOOL: You start primary school in the term where you turn 5 and you go there till you turn 11. There are public- and private primary schools, at private primary schools you have to pay for the child to go to school.
That\'s the reason why the classes in private primary schools are so small (2 each year), the parents don\'t have the money to pay the private primary schools.Only 7% of the english pupils go to private primarys. there are years 1 till 6 in primary school. The school is splitt up in infant school (Key stage 1, age 5 to 7) and junior school (Key stage 2, age 7 to 11). At the end of year 3 and 6 you have to do a STA (Standart Assessment-) Test. The result of the STA Test in year 3 decides if you can go into the next Key stage, the result of the STA Test in year 6 decides to which school you go to.
Either the Special need-, the high- or the grammar school. The results of primary education should be that pupils are able to read, to write and to calculate without any problems. That's why these three subjects are the important ones and in which children first of all are mainly taught. Besides, they are taught in art and religion. Religion has to be taught at every school. SECONDARY EDUCATION: Secondary schools may be single-sex or co-educational.
Children aged between 11 and 14 (Years 7 to 9) are Key Stage 3, pupil aged 14 - 16 are Key Stage 4 (Years 10 and 11).After year 11 the children don\'t have to go to school any more, they are responsable for the rest of their education. High school: In year 9 there is the STA-Test again for the 3 main subjects. In year 10 and 11 you take your GCSEs,you choose four subjects where you do a certain test (including the 3 main subjects.) In this 2 years you aswell do course work, which will be put down in the final grade aswell. You can compare it with our \"mündliche and schriftliche Prüfung\".
Grammar school: Grammar schools are secondary schools that admit children on the basis of 11years and older (there are currently 164 grammar schools in England). Special need school: Children which can\'t concentrate or are to stupid to take part at the usuall lessons go to an \"Special need school\"! There are approximately 2,000 schools (both day and boarding) offering special needs education. You can compare it with our \"Sonderschule\". Although a great majority of such children are educated in usuall primary and secondary schools. FURTHER EDUCATION: Further education is offered on an optional basis after the age of 16, once students have completed secondary education. In college the students take part in courses to take there A-Levels,GNQVs or there Higher National Diploma.
These qualifications enable students to continue education at a higher level, for example University or to enter a certain workplace. Higher Education: Students with the required A-level points - or equivalent - can join a course at the university. First-degree courses are generally full-time study of 3 to 4 years, with some courses requiring up to 7 years. All universities in the UK are governed by an Act of Parliament with the freedom to appoint their own staff, have their individual admissions policies, offer their own courses and award their own degrees. 3. Further Information: A-Level: Certificate of Education at advanced Level You have to take your A-Levels in year 13 with the age of 18.
Better version of the GCSEs GCSEs: GCSEs means General Certificate of Secondary Education. You have to take your GCSEs in year 10 and 11 with the age of 16. STA-TEST/Key Stage Exams: British pupils have to write a lot of tests and exams with high demands. They have to write 4 important exams that are called Key Stage Exams. They have to be written at the end of Infant school and Junior school, in the middle and at the end of Secondary school in 3 subjects: english, calculating and reading. Thosedays, pupils have the age of 7,11, 14 and16.
The Key Stage Exams help to compare the results of pupils and schools with the national average results. ( Also to see if the pupils have reached the achievements.) 4. School life: Every British school gives lessons until the afternoon which means that pupils sometimes have to stay at school till 4 o clock ion the afternoon. That's why every school offers lunch and gives a long break for it. The food is free for pupils whose parents have financial problems.
There are no further breaks except a 15 minutes break for breakfast. One lesson runs 40 minutes. A very long tradition is the everyday Assembly. Among this arrangement, a person, generally the headmaster, reads out one or some parts of the bible and interprets it ( for the pupils). It always takes place in the morning before lessons. The boys and girls have to come shoeless into the assembly hall or gymnasium and have to be very quite.
Some teachers have to pay attention if everyone listens to the headmaster and they get angry if someone doesn't or is late. If a pupil is often late, he or she gets a blame or something else. After the Assembly, the young people have to go to their classrooms immediately. Another big difference is, that teenagers in Britain have to wear school uniforms. Pupils do not have to repeat a year if they do badly. School rules: .swearing at school´ A special programme, which is part of a project named Personal, Social and Health module, was introduced since September2002.
( PSHM also covers topics such as sexual health and education, drugs, smoking and relationships.) Within this programme, schools give their pupils lessons in which the 11-16 years-old have to write down as many swearwords as they can think of. Then the teachers describe and explain them to their pupils, because specialists think that pupils don't know what their swearwords really mean. The aim is to get young people to look carefully at their language and see if they really meant to say what they did. A lot of parents are against this programme as they think that their children just get a wider range of disgusting words. . Children's growing lack of respect It is not easy for teachers to handle teenagers at the age of 12 to 16 when they start interesting for things and people who really don't have to do anything with school.
Teenagers, especially girls, want to show their independence by bad behaviour and doing the opposite of that what teachers want them to do. This problem is getting more difficult now because parents aids their children by taking their children's side when teachers try to discuss and solve discipline problems with pupils and want to remind the school rules. So when Pupils see that even their parents don't have any respect for the authority of teachers, they wonder why they should have it. But teachers don't say anything about things like that in the publicity because they don't want others think they couldn't control their classes. More and more violent incidence happen, but headmasters don't want to talk about it for fear of bringing their schools into disrepute. . Smoking Smoking at school is absolutely forbidden.
If a pupil is caught in the act, his parents will be informed immediately. Until now, there is one school in Britain who let's its pupils smoke. They are allowed to with their parents agree. A spokesman for the Department of Health said that it was very unusual. Other schools reacted shocked. School uniforms: The pupils don't like their school uniform, because they don't feel like an individualist anymore.
A lot of teenagers also don't like them because of the colours, which are often ones like black or grey and the majority says that their uniform is uncomfortable too. School uniforms often consist of a blazer with a t-shirt or a blouse below it, a tie and a pair of trousers for boys and a coat for girls in summer. The idea is to make pupils look equally so that nobody will be discriminated against because of his social problems which could be less money (or things like that). 5. Comparing england and germany There are a lot of diffrences between thegerman and the english school system, but the main diffrences are: -Pupils have to wear school uniforms -Stay in school till 4pm -Have lunch in school -Have to go to the assembly every morning -Pupils do not have to repeat a year if they do badly. Five GCSEs are equavalent to the german \"mittlere Reife\", Three A-Levels are equavalent to the german \"Abitur\".
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