Talk:First school

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There seem to be 1 or 2 in Milton Keynes, but the vast majority are called Primary Schools.
 * Shouldn't this just redirect to primary school then?


 * I don't think so I'm from the states and to me it's facinating that during the period of about fourty years a school tier was introduced then became practicly eliminated, definatly worthy of it's own article if you ask me.- Deathawk 17:28, 17 February 2006 (UTC)


 * It's definitely something different from a primary school - the ones in Milton Keynes are now changed to become Primary Schools, hence the difference. First Schools are those which proceed Middle Schools, and hence cross between two Key Stages. In Milton Keynes, they have recently changed back to Primary & Secondary. I am from nearby Dunstable, In Bedfordshire. I go to Queensbury Upper School, i have moved the page from first school to Lower School, as i know this is the proper name for it (considering i went to a lower school). Esc luver 09:16, 28 March 2007 (UTC)
 * I have reverted this move, as 'first school' is the older, and more widely-used term. Tafkam 17:52, 29 March 2007 (UTC)
 * The term Primary School was the preferred term for First Schools in many three-tier areas (including my own) though I am not sure what the numbers compared to "first School" were. Intersetingly in those areas "primary education" was continued in education planning to be used as a term covering the new primary schools and fisrt two middle schools years.  I agree Lower Scool is a confusing term since it has a number of meanings.  At my high school (age 13-18) the lower school was used in reference to the the (complulsory) 3rd-5th forms to distinguish them from the (non-compulsory) lower and upper 6th forms (note 3rd-5th formers were, perhaps confuisingly, the first three years which continued to use their two-tier system designations and are now called years 9 to 11). Dainamo (talk) 14:18, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Lower Schools in U.S.
The term "lower school" is sometimes used in the United States to refer to the elementary division of a larger (often college prep) school. It generally starts at junior kindergarten, kindergarten, or first grade and ends at fifth grade. Middle school is then grades 6-8, and upper school is grades 9-12. Can we include this and/or find citations? Noble-savage (talk) 14:59, 20 November 2008 (UTC)

Merge
I have created a section on talk:Elementary school recommending that this article and Elementary school and Junior school are merged into Primary school. Lets have the discussion on talk:Elementary school. PeterEastern (talk) 16:23, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
 * I have withdrawn this proposed moved for this article and removed the banner. I am happy that it is notable and has a clear scope. PeterEastern (talk) 06:25, 7 December 2013 (UTC)