amitybelle Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 We don't have grades in NZ. It goes, starting from age 5, Year 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6... Form 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. Year 1-6 is primary/elementary school, form 1-2 are intermediate/junior high, then 3-7 on is high school. Yup, five years of it. Stephanie would be 8th grade I think... somewhere around there anyway :P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Awesome Pants Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Ah See here we have Preschool (not mandatory) - 3-4 years old Kindergarten - 5 years old 1st grade - 6 years old 2nd grade - 7 years old 3rd grade - 8 years old 4th grade - 9 years old 5th grade - 10 years old That's the end of elementary. Then there's Middle school, or Junior high 6th grade - 11 years old 7th grade - 12 years old 8th grade - 13 years old Then there's high school 9th grade (freshman) - 14 years old 10th grade (sophmore) - 15 years old 11th grade (junior) - 16 years old 12th grade (senior) - 17 years old Now in some places, middle school starts at seventh grade. So there are only two years of it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amitybelle Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Yup yup I have quite a few friends in USA who have told me about your system ^_^. It confuzzles me sometimes :P. But I'm sure it's easy to understand if you're dealing with it everyday. Kindergarton here you go to when you're 3 or 4, you don't have to go but most kids do. I've always found it funny how 5 year olds go to kindergarton in USA simply because here, it's not mandatory and kids start school at 5. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unstream Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Yup :yes: Laura's pretty much got it And I think here in America you can go to preschool before kindergarten, and preschool is optional, right? At least I think it is. WOOO it's a snow day today!!!!! :D NO SCHOOL!!!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amitybelle Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Yup we have preschool too, also optional and before kindergarton ^_^. Do you ever call kindergarton 'kindy'? It's a common abbreviation here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unstream Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 I've never heard it called "Kindy" before. At least not in the area where I live. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macabre Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 I've heard it called Kindy. Kinder is also used for child sometimes in my family, because we're Germans. xD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unstream Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Yeah. Kinder means child right? I think I remember hearing that in German class. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livvy Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Psst :shiftyeyes_anim: I'm at school right now... using my own laptop! :O Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ΩCCΩ Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 how is that, Our schools are just like how Laura said, but we dont have 11 and 12 cuz it is a british system. If I get a very good mark at my OL's then there will only be 3 years left for me at school. (sounds weird being a preteen) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livvy Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 I have never called kindergarten "kindy". It sounds pretty cute though. =P I am amazed at how much shorter your school time is! It makes our 13 year minimum seem soooo looong. =\ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amitybelle Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Me? To fully complete school/graduate high school, you attend 13 years. So it's the same, really! Unless you mean the British system. They seem to have a really short school time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revenge Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 You know what? It's not gonna sound that great from your point of view, but something amazing happened. I was sent out of class today, and I started walking down the hall and down the stairs to a different room like I'm supposed to whenever I get sent out. Usually I'm escorted, but not this time. It took me awhile to realize it, I was halfway down the steps when I just had to stop and take in my surroundings. There was no one there. No one watching me. It was like an enormously huge breath of fresh air. It was a short way, but still. I hadn't walked down a school hall by myself in eight years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unstream Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 I hadn't walked down a school hall by myself in eight years. Can't you just get a bathroom pass during the day or something to be in the halls alone? I can pretty much walk down an empty hallway every day... Glad you're glad though Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amitybelle Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 I walked through a school which was deserted last year, not deserted as in abandoned (that would have been cooler), but it was school holidays and I was there as my sister was doing a camera course. It was awesome walking up the stairs and down corridors, into empty classrooms while no one was around. Night time would have been better! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revenge Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 You can never go to the bathroom by yourself. You are followed whenever you leave a classroom, making sure you don't break for it or make a huge hole in the wall. I have no idea why no one was watching me today, it was a one time thing that almost reminded me what other schools are like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Captain Awesome Pants Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 Your school sounds like fun! [/sarcasm] My school is huge, so being alone is intimidating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unstream Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 My school's big too, but then again, we have a lot of students. Maybe 2000ish? And they let us walk down the hallways alone since they have security cameras being monitored just about everywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livvy Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 I have a very large school. 3 floors, over 2000 students, and a HUGE freshman class this year! The hallways are terrible; the staircases are worse. They're always so crowded, and you move at like 1 stair per minute. Very slow. Very warm. Very uncomfortable. And very pushy. Which is really bad when you're short like me. But the classrooms are fairly nice, and the lunch room is hugenormous, so I guess I can't complain much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Revenge Posted February 4, 2009 Share Posted February 4, 2009 My school's big too, but then again, we have a lot of students. Maybe 2000ish? And they let us walk down the hallways alone since they have security cameras being monitored just about everywhere. Well as long as they aren't too obvious, I wouldn't mind. I'd just like to walk to and from places by myself. It's been a long time since I'd really done that, and I'd feel a lot better once that becomes normal again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruto Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 My school just added a new building, so it's a lot bigger than what it was, but it's still very small compared to other schools. I like it. I don't get lost. :D I never was one for big schools or cities. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unstream Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 I have a very large school. 3 floors, over 2000 students, and a HUGE freshman class this year! The hallways are terrible; the staircases are worse. They're always so crowded, and you move at like 1 stair per minute. Very slow. Very warm. Very uncomfortable. And very pushy. Which is really bad when you're short like me. But the classrooms are fairly nice, and the lunch room is hugenormous, so I guess I can't complain much. Wow that sounds a lot like my school. The hallways suck all the time, except we have this one area called the "student commons", where it's like a big open room with classrooms on the edges, and it's usually pretty roomy there. And it's always crowded during lunch. If you're too slow getting up, there's like this giant mass of people leaving the cafeteria and it takes like 3 minutes just to go down that hallway, when it normally takes less than 30 seconds. Maybe I'll upload a map or something sometime. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruto Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 ^^^ Another reason why I love small schools: not as many people, not as much time going from one class to another. Especially during the lunch rush. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
livvy Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 I would much prefer a small school, but the academic magnet program at this school was really good, so I went here. Besides, I don't think we really have any small high schools around here that aren't private schools... We have a bunch of elementary schools though! We have three less than a mile from each other! I don't know what the high schools are going to do when all those elementary kids grow up... SV can't get much bigger than it already is. =\ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephé Posted February 5, 2009 Share Posted February 5, 2009 We've got about 620-ish children in our school. But when we have to get changed for Gym or something, there's no special changing rooms. 100 girls getting changed in a cosy toilet room.....=_= Do you guys have lunch served in a 'cafeteria' (we don't have those, we eat outside XD) or do you have to bring your own lunch? I just asked because sometimes they do that in the movies XD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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