BRITISHPRIMARYSCHOOL英國(guó)初等學(xué)校介紹

1、BRITISHPRIMARYSCHOOL英國(guó)初等學(xué)校介紹Up to age 5, children may have some pre-primary schooling in nursery schools, daycare, or play groups. Between the age of 5 to 11, pupils mainly attend state sector primary schools. These schools are called co-education or mixed schools because they admit both boys and gi

2、rls. Primary schools are often subdivided into infant schools for children from age 47 (Foundation Stage and Key Stage 1) and junior schools for ages 711 (Key Stage 2). (Excluding Scotland, where all from age 5-12 are catered for in the one institution.)By law, all children of compulsory school age

3、(between 5 and 16) must receive a full-time education. The UK introduced a National Curriculum in 1992 and state schools are required to adhere to it until students reach age 16. However, independent or public schools are not obliged to do so.In areas that adopted a three-tier system, the term prima

4、ry school is often used as an alternative to First School, taking in ages up to 9 or 10 years old, although for education planning purposes, the term primary education in these areas will still cover the age groups as in a two-tier system.In the private sector, fee-paying schools which provide prima

5、ry education are known as preparatory schools, and they often cater for children up to the age of thirteen. As their name suggests, preparatory schools are designed to prepare pupils for entrance examinations for fee-paying independent schools.TestPrimary school students in England sit standardized

6、tests SATs in Year 6 and in Year 2. These tests are used to provide individual student results and to rank schools according to their performance. Tests include Numeracy, Mental Math, Reading Comprehension, Writing, Spelling and Science. A final level is awarded for Math, English and Science. Wales

7、and Northern Ireland abolished the tests quite some time ago, whilst Scotland never implemented the SATs. Heatherdown Preparatory School Heatherdown Prep: the exclusive school that taught David Cameron his ambitionHeatherdown Preparatory School was an independent junior school for boys in the civil

8、parish of Winkfield, near Ascot, in the English county of Berkshire. It closed in 1982. Set in 30 acres (12ha) of grounds, it typically had between 80 and 90 pupils.Its pupils included:Prince Andrew, Duke of YorkPrince Edward, Earl of WessexAndrew Russell, 15th Duke of BedfordDavid Cameron, UK Prime

9、 Minister (2021present )David Cholmondeley, 7th Marquess of CholmondeleySir Edward Fielden, World War Two heroGiles Goschen, 4th Viscount Goschen1Bryan Guinness, 2nd Baron MoyneVictor Hely-HutchinsonGeorge Mountbatten, 4th Marquess of Milford HavenLord Ivar MountbattenAngus OgilvyJames OgilvyDavid C

10、arnegie, Earl of SoutheskGeorge Windsor, Earl of St AndrewsDavid Niven, actorJoel CadburyAlexander Cockburn, writerAccording to Francis Elliot and James Hannings biography of David Cameron, the school was renowned for its academic and sporting excellence. They claim that among the eighty sets of par

11、ents of Camerons contemporaries, there were eight The Honourables, four Sirs, two Captains, two Doctors, two Majors, one Brigadier, one Commodore, two Princesses, two Marchionesses, one Viscount, one Earl, one Baron and one Queen.The last Headmaster of the School was James V. Edwards. After closing

12、in 1982, the school was demolished and all that remains is the lake and island along Fernbank Road. The site is now occupied by the Licensed Victuallers School. Old boys or people with a valid connection to the school maintain a facebook page with limited public content to share memories and post pi

13、ctures.The small boy smiling shyly in the back row of the school photograph bears no early traces of greatness. But, at the tender age of 11, David Cameron was already ambitious beyond his years. A school report emerged on Thursday showing Mr Cameron ranked last in the elite sixth form at Heatherdow

14、n Preparatory School 。Locker ParkLockers Park School is a day and boarding preparatory school for 140 boys, situated in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. Each year it sends boys to the main public schools in the UK, including Harrow, Eton, Radley, Bradfield and Rugby. Its current headmaster is David F

15、arquharson.Lockers Park has a long and distinguished history. It was founded in 1874 by Henry Montagu Draper to be a foundation school preparing boys for Rugby School, and is thus one of the earliest purpose-built preparatory schools in England.It is built on the parkland of a significant Georgian h

16、ouse, called The Lockers, which still exists, now divided into apartments. Henry Draper took the opportunity to buy the 23 acres (93,000 m2) of parkland when the owner of The Lockers fell on hard times, and built a school with facilities to house the sons of gentlefolk who intended their sons for Ru

17、gby. He was guided in his choice of location by the proximity of the site to Boxmoor (now Hemel Hempstead) station, and its situation on the route from London to Rugby.In the following years Lockers Park School established itself as one of a handful of high-quality preparatory schools, sending boys

18、to Eton, Harrow and Winchester as well as Rugby, Bradfield, Uppingham School and the nearer schools of Stowe and Haileybury.Its list of distinguished old boys is long, most notably: Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma, His Highness Prince Maurice of Battenberg and Guy Burgess, the Russian spy. The Nawab of Pataudi, captain of the Indian Cricket team, Sir Keith Joseph, James Lees-Milne and Saif Ali Khan also went to the school.Many traditions from the days of Draper still continue, maintained within the fully updated bu