[Cherie]

Originally Posted by Ammi

..our feeder school is a college, they used to be called upper schools in the three tier system where there were middle schools as well..there are still a few areas here who haven't yet gone over to the two tier system yet, but our colleges take children from 11yrs old, with 6th forms from 16yrs old...

We haven't had a three tier system for years, primary 3 to 11, then a mixture of secondary schools including comprehensive, academy and grammar, sixth form colleges and a college which is for 16 plus and offers NVQs and BTechs as well as A levels, what will happen to grammar schools under this new policy

The private school has a lower, middle and upper though

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by Cherie

We haven't had a three tier system for years, primary 3 to 11, then a mixture of secondary schools including comprehensive, academy and grammar, sixth form colleges and a college which is for 16 plus and offers NVQs and BTechs as well as A levels, what will happen to grammar schools under this new policy

The private school has a lower, middle and upper though

..yeah, we've been one of the later counties to adopt the two tier system and when we did, there was a lot of concerns/opposition from parents who felt that the 'soft and gentler easing' through a middle school was the way but I don't think that I've spoken to any parent since who has that same view and still thinks that it wasn't a good idea...there will undoubtedly be exceptions, I'm sure but on the whole, it's been a great thing...the interesting thing about academy schools as well is that we've created a 'network' to go around and look at some academy schools with some of our local state run schools because we were sceptical as well and so far..(we've visited 5 I think and met to discuss them because I think the only way is to actually see something up and running/see how it works for ourselves..)..it's all been really favourable stuff, things that we would like to implement ourselves in school but we're not able to because of funding...both staff and pupils seem really happy with their academy school and for good reasons...we also have one locally which hasn't been 'tested' yet as it's still being built but already, there are many pupils in the local community college who are hoping to and eager to transfer there when it opens because of what it's offering compared to what they have available to them atm....