# School in the UK

In the united Kingdom the school system is quite similar to the dutch system. They start with primary school, ages 5- 10. Then they go on to secondary school from the age of 11 till 15. After that they will have a form of college from 16 till 18, where they do important exams to get into university.

However, going to school in another country is always different than what you are used to. Read a day in the life of an English student below and answer the following questions.

My school day

I go to school at 8:30 in the morning to see my friends before school starts at 8:45. We all wear the same thing because we have school uniforms.

I like the subject maths because it is fun, easy and I like to solve problems.

I don’t like geography because I don’t like the teacher. She is very strict and not fun.

At lunch I meet with my friends, eat together and then go to the library to play card games and do homework (that I meant to do earlier).

Then we go back to do our final lesson, we have five lessons a day which are 55 minutes long. Sometimes we have two of the same lessons after each other which can be hard because it is a long time to study one subject for me.
After school, on Wednesdays and Thursdays, I play the saxophone in the school band. Every week we practice because we play at the school concerts and we also go abroad to play in different countries which is really fun.

- Luke Feneley

Norfolk, England

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