Foreign Perspectives

Or is it post-primary, grammar or high school? Officially it’s post-primary but that’s only because secondary got a really bad name over the years so the former secondary schools are now called high schools whilst the former high schools didn’t like to be lumped in with them and therefore rebranded themselves as grammar schools.

Anyway, he’s in the final few weeks of primary school now and we’re gearing up to his next school. We’d thought that we were over the hump of the paperwork with the transfer test behind us and school preferences in, but there’s a fair bit of paperwork to complete for his new school already.

The next year will be “interesting” for him with a change from a small handful of subjects to around a dozen different ones and exams for the majority of them next May. The school is quite a lot larger than his primary school and it’s an all-boys school too which’ll make quite a difference I suspect.

A big plus point is that it’s the school that we all felt at home in during our visits there so all being well that feeling will see him through the initial stress beginning at the end of August. He only needs to find his tutor’s classroom as the first year classes go around in groups so some of them should know where to go or at least they’ll be easier to find if they all get lost.