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====I have chosen to learn more about school systems in Great Britain. I find this topic interessting because we see all kind of series on television with british teenagers who have no manners what so ever, so and I want to see how their life is at school.====
 * ====**Differences between Private and Public schools**====
 * ====**Career & Money**====

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 * I watched this video and learned a lot!**

CLASSES
====At the age of 5 ﻿children begin at primary school. Here they prepare the children for secondary school. They do a lot of spelling, learning numbers and letters. The basic stuff. At the age of 11 the children begins at secondary school. They stay at this stage to the age of 16. There are about 20-27 students in each of these classes.==== ====When done at school they take the GCSE examination, also known as the General Certificate of Secondary Education. After these exams about 30% leave school, the other ones stay at school, studying three subjects two more years and then take "A" levels, advanced level examinations. About 20% of eighteenyearolds then leave home and goes to university in a different town or city.====

SUBJECTS
====﻿The students have many subjects to choose from. Examples are: art class, maths, food technology class, here the students learn about food and cooking, design and technology class, information technology, history, literature, religion, geography, science and foreign languages. Most students in Britain study French. Other popular languages are Spanish and Italian.====

THE UNIFORMS
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====The first thing I am going to talk about are the famous british uniforms. School children in the UK are required to wear their uniforms to school every single day. Why the teenagers have to wear the uniforms is because the teachers think it's better looking and more represententative. The main reason why the UK have chosen to use school uniforms is to avoid bullying from those who may afford the latest fashion news. Some parents may not have as much money as others and their children may get picked on because they don't have the "latest". I think this is a good idea, because then all of the students look alike. A girl hasn't cooler clothes than another one, she wears exactly the same outfit! Another advantage by having uniforms at school is that you don't have to get up early deciding what to wear :-)====

====There are different uniforms for each school, and some focus on making them less fancy and less expensive. So if you're going to a private school in the UK you would probably get a nicer uniform seeing that the parents pay for them to go to school. The only rule about the uniforms is that every item that belongs to it, has to be worn correctly- like the tie, skirt, trousers, blazer etc. (1)====

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Maya Driver. []. Aug 5th 2009 12.21 PM. March 10th 2011 14.12 PM (1)