I’m a teacher in training. We had reading “homework” over the summer for our incoming students. Their families were instructed that if their child read every day (15-30 minutes or so), and they kept track of it on a chart we sent them, they would win prizes when they came to school. I think it was something like a pizza party if they read a certain number of days. It wasn’t mandatory and there was no punishment for not doing it. I thought it was a great idea.
Who would downvote this? Like I’m genuinely curious who enjoyed homework over the summer. And why?
Teachers?
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That and the comic frames are in the reverse order of what makes sense with the text.
That’s just the order in which Mematic gave them to me.
How do you give homework over summer? Don’t you have a different teacher in the fall?
My school moves everyone up after the GCSEs and A-Levels are over, which is in May or June. The holiday starts in July.
As far as I know, we’re the only school in Britain that does this.
I don’t really get what you mean.
Instead of moving up to the next year (the British term for “grade”) in September, we do it after the exams (finals) are over, which is in June.
Oh right, so if you’re in year 7, you start year 8 before the summer holidays?
Yeah, but high school starts at year 9 (age 13-14), so:
(Y9 doesn’t exist for a bit)
Y9 --> Y10
Y10 --> Y11
Y11 --> (Either leave school or just take a few extra weeks off)
Y12 --> Y13
Y13 --> (Leave school*)
This is done because, after the exams, the Y11s and Y13s have no content left to learn, so there’s no point in keeping them at school.
Also, as I said, my school is strange for doing this. Most, if not all, other British high schools are normal.
*Unless you get held back, stay on for another year, or go to university
TL;DR: Yeah, pretty much
Where are you in the UK? High school starts age 11 usually.
North East England. Around here, it goes like this:
- 4-8 years: First School
- 8-13 years: Middle School
- 13-16 years: High School
then
- 16-18 years: College or Sixth Form
- 18+: University, etc.
You are probably used to the two-tier system, with a primary school and a secondary school. Around here, though, we mainly have a three-tier system.
