British Education

School life
1. mostly teacher-centered lessons + small group activities
2. School day from 9 till 16 with about 2 hours for breaks
3. 3 Terms: Autumn, Spring, Winter terms
4. Christmas break (2 weeks), Easter break (2 weeks), Summer Break (6 weeks), midterm breaks
Style
1. physical education
2. teaching of 'citizenship'
3. sex and relationships education
4. accent on creating a good member of society
5. developing the 'complete' person
6. priority to developing understanding and sophistication of approach over the accumulation of factual knowledge
Types of Schools
1. Primary (3-11)
  1. Infant (3-7)
  2. Junior (7-11)
2. Secondary (11-16,18) with or without the sixth form
  1. Comprehensive Schools
  2. Sixth Form College/ Further education Colledge (16-18+)
  3. Traineeship Apprenticeship (16-18+)
  4. Grammar Schools (5%)
  5. Partially Selective Schools

Resource summary

	Created by Julia Arndt over 7 years ago