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Hi!

I was wondering how the first day of high school (grade nine) is like for you British people. I want to know what you do during that day. I already know how your school system works so you don't have to explain that, because I have the same system. Oh, and another question: are your high schools big? How do they look like?

Thank you so much!! [emoji1]

To be fair, all of these vary. On my first day, I went to form, got my timetable, stayed in form for Period 1, then continued the day as any other, following my schedule. Personally, my school is small, with only 800 people, but my brothers high school has about 2500! And I would say the majority of high schools in Britain are ugly post-WW2 60s concrete blocks.

Kazeybear wrote:To be fair, all of these vary. On my first day, I went to form, got my timetable, stayed in form for Period 1, then continued the day as any other, following my schedule. Personally, my school is small, with only 800 people, but my brothers high school has about 2500! And I would say the majority of high schools in Britain are ugly post-WW2 60s concrete blocks.

Thank you! (⌒ω⌒)

So, on my first day of highschool, we had a get to know the school day. So none of the other years were there, it was just the year 7's. So we were put into forms and stuff, got to know the people who were in your form. Then we were given timetables and allowed to wander around the school to find out where everything was. We had quite a big school, probably about 500 people in each year. So around 2500 in total. Like Kazeybear said, they're mostly ugly 60's buildings.
Then the following day the upper years were back in and we were left to get on with it, they allowed like a couple of days for you to be late for lessons and things (because there was a fair chance you were still getting lost and things).
But after that it was just getting into the swing of things, and basically like normal school.

burninhell wrote:So, on my first day of highschool, we had a get to know the school day. So none of the other years were there, it was just the year 7's. So we were put into forms and stuff, got to know the people who were in your form. Then we were given timetables and allowed to wander around the school to find out where everything was. We had quite a big school, probably about 500 people in each year. So around 2500 in total. Like Kazeybear said, they're mostly ugly 60's buildings.
Then the following day the upper years were back in and we were left to get on with it, they allowed like a couple of days for you to be late for lessons and things (because there was a fair chance you were still getting lost and things).
But after that it was just getting into the swing of things, and basically like normal school.

Thank you for the information!

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I would get rid of that...

Wunderbar wrote:

zamy wrote:Sent from my L500S using Tapatalk

I would get rid of that...

@Wunderbar it's just an indication that the person is making posts from the app, and why does it matter? You'll see those crop up every once and awhile.

Please stay on topic ^^

Sadly, I am not British and just posting here to redirect. Move along!