Talk:Sixth form

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Why is the reference to Honk Kong and Malaysia, included under the heading England? Maltesedog 09:27, 5 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Merge

This should be merged with sixth form college ; otherwise this seems a bit redundant. --Catchthedream 21:56, 17 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I think the merge should actually go the other way; sixth forms exist around the world, but sixth form college only mentions the UK. smurrayinchester^{(User), (Talk)} 08:35, 18 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Miscount

The article states that in "Year One" children have their fifth birthday. Then the upper and lower sixth forms, when children have their 17th and 18th birthdays would be Yrs 13 and 14, not 12 and 13 as stated. Basic numeracy suggests something in the article must be wrong!

Not sure if it's been fixed since you read it; but the Year 1 article now says that year one children start the year "aged 5", rather than have their 5th birthday; so, it's their 6th birthday they have in year 1. Emmadw (talk) 18:07, 6 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

The year in which children are aged 5 is actually called "Reception" and then there are 13 more years so lower sixth is year 12 and upper sixth is year 13 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.165.243.77 (talk) 18:44, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

New Zealand

New Zealand has Sixth For at well. There is now a different naming system. -- Alan Liefting (talk) - 01:56, 5 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

For some unknown reason, some oaf deleted the following, saying wtf, I can't complain if my country didn't make the list. My point was that the "list" here is for some reason devoted to British and Commonwealth countries. Bearing that in mind, Australia should be on that list, especially if New Zealand is. Else, it becomes very puzzling as to why the tiny nations dealt with here are worthy of attention, while much larger ones have been excluded. I repost my concern below.

Forget Trannydad and Tobasco, and Hong Kong et al. Where the bloody hell is Australia in this lot? If New Zealand makes the list, why doesn't a Commonwealth Country of over 20 million people, and with a different variation on secondary education for each state? Incidentally, I live in New South Wales, Australia, and here the last year of high school is Year 12 (it begins in Year 7). Now I read here that there are Years 13 and even 14 all over the place. Does this mean that overseas students get up to two years of extra secondary education compared to us? Myles325a (talk) 08:17, 2 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Title of article

Sixth form covers years 12 and 13 in England and Wales. The title of this article is therefore somewhat misleading. I suggest it should be retitled "Sixth form". Does anyone have any objections? Dahliarose (talk) 18:23, 10 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have reverted the move that took it away from that place originally! Tafkam (talk) 01:00, 11 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Misunderstanding of sixth form

The writer of this articles suggests that the five forms before this were called 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th (ie. those which we now call years 7 to 11) and that the sixth form is so called because it follows on.

This is not the case, historically the ten forms before this were called lower first, upper first, lower second, upper second and so on. Then these ten forms were relabelled but lower and upper sixth kept their label. In some of the richer private schools, these labels still exist.

In fact, the labelling which I mention in the 1st paragraph probably came about after the sixth form retained its label.

86.165.243.77 (talk) 18:48, 30 April 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Were there perhaps differences in the private and state sector? My school certainly had the simple year groups from first through to fifth withouth any uppers and lowers. How can there be ten forms when the transfer to secondary school starts at age 11 and there are only five years of schooling until the age of 16? The statements really need references, but I'm not sure where to start looking. Dahliarose (talk) 19:54, 1 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]