UK CURRICULUM & LEARNING ...Qualifications and education in Scotland STARTING AGE


Children born between March and August start school in the August following their fifth birthday. Children born between September and February begin school in the August before their fifth birthday. However, parents of children born between September


and December can ask the local education authority to defer their child’s start date to the following August. Deferral is not automatic and is subject to approval. Parents of children born in January and February can also ask the local education authority to defer their child’s start date. These requests are approved automatically.


ASSESSMENT Currently, children are first screened in P1 and then assessed in reading, maths and spelling every year from P2 to P7. In each year, a random sample of students in P4 and P7 is chosen to take the Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy, to build a wider picture of standards across the


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country. However, from 2017, new standardised assessments will be introduced for pupils in P1, P4, P7 and S3. Once the new system is in place, the Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy will be phased out. Her Majesty’s Inspectorate for Education (HMIe) monitors schools in Scotland. The HMIe chooses a random sample of schools across the country each year and provides them with a letter explaining their strengths and weaknesses.


SCHOOL TYPES Scotland has supported comprehensive secondary schools


for the past 50 years. In the 1960s, the grammar-school system was phased out, but some schools have retained ‘grammar’ in their names, despite being non-selective. There are over 50 independent schools in Scotland. According to the Scottish Council of Independent Schools (SCIS), 4.3 per cent of pupils attended such a school in 2015. The figure was much higher in cities such as Edinburgh, where around 30 per cent of students were educated privately.


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