the Tripartite System
The Tripartite System /traɪ`pɑːtaɪt/ was the arrangement of state funded secondary education between 1944 and the 1970s in England and Wales, and from 1947 to 2009 in Northern Ireland. It was an administrative implementation of the Education Act 1944 and the Education Act (Northern Ireland) 1947. State funded secondary education was arranged into a structure containing three types of school, namely: grammar school, secondary technical school and secondary modern school. Pupils were allocated to their respective types of school according to their performance in the Eleven Plus examination. It was the prevalent system under the Conservative governments of the 1951 to 1964 period, but was actively discouraged by the Labour government after 1965. It was formally abolished in England and Wales in 1976 giving way to the Comprehensive System. However, elements of similar systems persist in several English counties such as Kent which maintains the grammar school system alongside comprehensive schools. The system's merits and demerits, in particular the need and selection for grammar schools, proved to be a contentious issue at the time and still remain so.
O Leveln schools
Designed for the majority of pupils----those who do not achieve scores in the top 25% of the eleven plus examination. Teachers are free to develop their own ideas, depending on the equipment and the qualifications.
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Eleven Plus examination
Usually, it consisted of three papers:
State schools
Independent schools
Comprehensive Schools Grammar Schools Secondary modern Schools Public schools
Grammar schools
The oldest schools in the UK (Shakespeare) Reserved for students who got high marks in the Eleven Plus examination or selected by other means Concerned with the business of getting ready for the examinations Some are academically among the best schools in England.
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Direct grant grammar school
The status was introduced by the Education Act 1944 as a modification of an existing direct grant scheme to privately endowed schools. There were 179 direct grant grammar schools, which together with over 1200 grammar schools maintained by local authorities formed the most academic tier of the Tripartite System. They varied greatly in size and composition, but on average achieved higher academic results than either maintained grammar schools or independent schools. When state secondary education was reorganised on comprehensive lines in the 1970s, the direct grant was phased out and the schools required to choose between becoming maintained comprehensive schools or fully independent schools. Forty-five schools, almost all Roman Catholic, joined the state system, and a few closed. The rest (including all the secular schools) became independent, and mostly remain as highly selective independent schools.
Ages: 5-11
Kindergarten / Nursery Schools: 3-5
Ages: 3-13
Kindergarten / Nursery Schools: 3-5
Co-educational
Infants’ school/ First School: 5-7
Junior School: 7-11
Harrow School Winchester College
Eton College
Eton College is a private secondary school in Berkshire County in southern England. The preparatory school was founded by King Henry VI in 1440. A statue of Henry VI stands in the courtyard of the college.
Comprehensive secondary schools
A comprehensive school is a secondary school or state school for children from the age of 11 to at least 16 that does not select children on the basis of academic achievement or aptitude. Subjects learned Examinations before graduation
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Most children took the Eleven Plus transfer test examination in their final year of primary school: usually at age 10 or 11.
Private School: 5Three terms with holidays 7/8 at Christmas, Easter, summer Pre School: 7/8-13