Talk:Sixth form

message: Why is the reference to Honk Kong and Malaysia, included under the heading England? Maltesedog 09:27, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: untitled

message: This should be merged with sixth form college ; otherwise this seems a bit redundant. --Catchthedream 21:56, 17 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I think the merge should actually go the other way; sixth forms exist around the world, but sixth form college only mentions the UK. smurrayinchester(User), (Talk) 08:35, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge 

message: The article states that in "Year One" children have their fifth birthday. 
Then the upper and lower sixth forms, when children have their 17th and 18th birthdays would be Yrs 13 and 14, not 12 and 13 as stated.
Basic numeracy suggests something in the article must be wrong!
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Not sure if it's been fixed since you read it; but the Year 1 article now says that year one children start the year "aged 5", rather than have their 5th birthday; so, it's their 6th birthday they have in year 1. 
Emmadw (talk) 18:07, 6 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Miscount 

message: Sixth form covers years 12 and 13 in England and Wales. The title of this article is therefore somewhat misleading. I suggest it should be retitled "Sixth form". Does anyone have any objections? Dahliarose (talk) 18:23, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I have reverted the move that took it away from that place originally! Tafkam (talk) 01:00, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Title of article

message: The writer of this articles suggests that the five forms before this were called 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th (ie. those which we now call years 7 to 11) and that the sixth form is so called because it follows on.  
This is not the case, historically the ten forms before this were called lower first, upper first, lower second, upper second and so on.  Then these ten forms were relabelled but lower and upper sixth kept their label.  In some of the richer private schools, these labels still exist.  
In fact, the labelling which I mention in the 1st paragraph probably came about after the sixth form retained its label.
86.165.243.77 (talk) 18:48, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Were there perhaps differences in the private and state sector? My school certainly had the simple year groups from first through to fifth withouth any uppers and lowers. How can there be ten forms when the transfer to secondary school starts at age 11 and there are only five years of schooling until the age of 16? The statements really need references, but I'm not sure where to start looking. Dahliarose (talk) 19:54, 1 May 2009 (UTC)
replies: text:  The first ever schools in England were private but known as "public".  The forms were spread out over more than one school.  Just by googling, I came across this school which uses the old labelling -  http://www.withington.manchester.sch.uk ~~
The system worked like this:
Primary school
Reception (age 4-5)
First form - Year 1 (age 5-6).
Lower II - Year 2 (age 6-7).
Upper II - Year 3 (age 7-8).
Lower III - Year 4 (age 8-9).
Middle III - Year 5 (age 9-10).
Upper III - Year 6 (age 10-11).
Secondary School
Lower IV - Year 7 (age 11-12).
Upper IV - Year 8 (age 12-13).
Lower V - Year 9 (age 13-14).
Middle V - Year 10 (age 14-15).
Upper V - Year 11 (age 15-16).
Lower VI - Year 12 (age 16-17).
Upper VI - Year 13 (age 17-18).
Some schools still use this system. One example: St. Felix School, Southwold, Suffolk. 201.214.28.91 (talk) 14:05, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Misunderstanding of sixth form 

message: The article suggests that Sixth Form students 'normally work towards A Levels'. This is somewhat untrue as Sixth Form students will undertake a large number of programmes, of which A Levels is just one. In modern education there is nothing 'normal' about studying A Levels - the choice is much more diverse and covers different levels of course. In addition the article suggests that Sixth Form is for 16-18 year olds exclusively and students can actually stay on at a secondary school until they are 19. (This also makes the link to Wiktionary a little questionable.) 
In addition, the section on the number of A Levels students require for universities and the number they choose to take in the Sixth Form is very generic and probably based on personal experiences of Post 16. The approach it discusses is how some Sixth Forms are modeled, but certainly not all - the article is littered with 'usually' and 'normally' and thus fairly ambiguous, if not inaccurate on the whole. The whole article, which on the face of it seems complete, needs a lot of work in terms of tidying and removal of generalisations. Mmorrismjm (talk) 23:19, 9 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Examinations/Ambiguity