Talk:Infant school/Archive 1

Is there anything here worth saving?
Is there anything here worth saving? I, in the U.S., have never heard of the term infant school (pre-school, yes) and I know that there is no nation-wide requirement of an Associate's degree for work in child-care. Rmhermen 14:39, Jan 21, 2004 (UTC)
 * It's a UK term, though somewhat outmoded nowadays I believe. Primary school would be a better term quercus robur
 * Primary school in the US would be grades K (or 1) through 5 or 6. I thought this article was about pre-school (ages under 4 or 5)? Rmhermen 15:14, Jan 21, 2004 (UTC)
 * No in the UK 'Infant School' would be widely understood to mean ages above 4 9ie, first stage of compulsory education)- younger than this is refered to as 'pre-school' or sometimes 'nursery school'- maybe the term has a different meaning in the US? quercus robur
 * I am not aware of any menaing of infant school in the US. Can someone help? Rmhermen 15:23, Jan 21, 2004 (UTC)
 * There is no global approach to education system structures, and each country has their own systems and sub systesm and in the Uk there are two sets of systems the State provided education syatem and the privately funded education system, both of which have different age structures as to wehn children move from waht most would call primary to secondary education. A further complication has been the polotial devolution within the Uk so that now each of the 4 countries (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have their own legeslitive frame works governing education.
 * So there may be no direct comparison between the USA and UK education system, so you may not have infant schools in the USA but we do have them in the UK. dolfrog (talk) 12:43, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
 * Wikipedia is an international encylopaedia and not just devoted to US-specific words. In the UK an infant school is a type of primary school. The two terms are not synonymous. Junior schools are also primary schools and some primary schools take children right through from four to 11. There is an unreferenced statement that infant schools are mainly found in the UK. Are they not also found in other countries of the world? I removed the statement about Reception being similar to American kindergartens. Without knowing anything about American kindergartens it is difficult to know if they are similar to the Reception year. Fitzmichael (talk) 12:15, 29 June 2017 (UTC)From at least WW2 'Reception' meant the class which received children into compulsory education, ie at age 5, in a Primary school, which might also be termed an Infant school. There were no 'lower' classes. At some point after 'pre-school/nursery school' became the norm, 'Reception was 'moved down' a year, probably by teacher usage - I have found no 'official' information; there probably isn't any; it is similar to teachers' changing from calling their charges 'pupils' to referring to them as 'students', removing a meaningful distinction. I puzzle as to why they would want or be allowed to do that.[User Fitzmichael]Fitzmichael (talk) 12:15, 29 June 2017 (UTC) The explanation is in any case not much help for anyone from the rest of the world reading the article as kindergarten has a different meaning in most other countries and generally refers to a pre-school so it could cause confusion. Dahliarose (talk) 16:56, 29 June 2009 (UTC)

Infant schools in the Uk
The History goes something like this, I have no time line unfortunately. There existed Nursary, Infants, Middle and then a split between Secondary Morder or Grammar Schools. Nusary schools intially took children from 4 - 5 years old but in recent years the minimum age has for some voluntarily decreased. Most but not all Infant and middle schools became a combined Primary school 5 - 11 years of age. (infants schools 5- 7 or 8 years of age and middle schools 8 - 11 years of age. There a very few if any middle scools in existance but the age band is still used as a useful cognition sub divide in primary schools. There are still a few sperate infant schools in existance, mainly in rural areas. dolfrog (talk) 15:16, 29 June 2009 (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) 02:59, 5 December 2013 (UTC)

Kindergarten
So it is what is elsewhere called kindergarten? A place where children between 3 and 6 learn social skills, play all day, and get in contact with other children their age. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.197.121.93 (talk) 21:42, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

No. It is a school where children from 4 to 8 (school years 1 to 4) are educated. The UK equivalent of Kindergarten is a Nursery or Nursery School. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.159.103.66 (talk) 18:00, 21 April 2014 (UTC)

Article is way off on primaries
Many areas in England never had separate infant and junior schools. Rather, they had elementary schools, which went up to 14, and with the growth of secondary schooling the elementaries were converted to primaries. DuncanHill (talk) 18:32, 9 June 2019 (UTC)

Art
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