Primary school

**Primary school** is where children's lives as they know it change and no matter how bad it was at the time they will look back in fondness.

## Premise

Children will learn how to do everything, from add, subtract, multiply and divide to read and write. Primary school children are competitive in all areas like how fast they can run, what reading level they're on and how quickly they can get changed for PE.

Many primary school years will merge into one, either because children's memories aren't fully retained at a young age or no personal development ever happened.

## Year groups

* Reception (ages 4-5)
	+ Everyone will miss being Reception kids again, where children would spend their time playing in the sandpit, drawing with crayons and sitting on the carpet for story time. At this point, school will feel special and the buzzing feeling of holding their book bag on the first day will deceive them, not knowing what pains life has in store for them later on.
* Year 1 (ages 5-6)
	+ Children will be excited to go into Year 1 because they will feel a difference between the work in Reception, thus feel more grown up. Here, children will struggle to accept the concept of subtracting, and will start getting into collectables to boast about on the playground (eg. Match Attax, Top Trumps, Scoubidou).
* Year 2 (ages 6-7)
	+ Year 2s will be pressurised by the teachers about SATs but end up not being such a big deal on them as they will progress to Year 3 anyway. They will be told they are the oldest in infant school and will have to behave as role models to the Receptions and Year 1s.
* Year 3 (ages 7-8)
	+ Year 3s will be the most relaxed and have a refreshed excitement for learning because there is a difference between being in the junior school to the infant school, the main one being they aren't entitled to free milk after breaktime. They will begin to experience freedom, such as eating outside for lunch if they have packed lunches and having a bigger playground.
* Year 4 (ages 8-9)
	+ Schoolwork will get harder around this point and children will become more outspoken now they are getting closer to going to Year 5. Here, they always seem to learn about an ancient civilisation (Greek, Egyptian, Aztec etc). At this point, they will become aware through a network of older siblings that next year will be the year they learn about sexual education and they will do their own research to be prepared for it.
* Year 5 (ages 9-10)
	+ Some children will be miles ahead in terms of intelligence than others, and teachers will try their best to not treat them like the next child prodigies for the sake of the rest of the class. Children in this class are likely to be very close as they have spent at the most 6 years together and will realise they will leave to different schools later. Some children will feel special when they turn double digits.
* Year 6 (ages 10-11)
	+ By this point, children will be getting ready for taking SATs and the 11 plus but are spurred on by the teachers in the form of the residential trip and leavers' production. At this point, friendships will either be breaking or strengthening in preparation for the move to big school.

## Terminology

* **Big school** - another term for Secondary school.
* **Buddies** - a terrible scheme organised by the Reception and Year 6 teachers, and sometimes the Year 2 and Year 5 teachers. Students in each class will be paired up with one in the other and they will spend an afternoon reading or playing on the computer together. Teachers will put extra care into pairing the chaotic Receptions with the passive Year 6s for their own entertainment.
* **Dinner ladies** and **lunch** **supervisors** - not a sexist term but a fact. Most tend to be ladies or mums of students who come in at lunch to help. Supervisors will check children have eaten enough food before letting them leave the table. They will also stand at the top of the playground looking for a child to tell off. Dinner ladies stand behind the counter and serve children food from vats if they have school dinners. If it is a multiple choice question, children will point to the option they want, for they are scared of speaking to them.
* **EducationCity** - an educational website with games for different subjects featuring notable reoccurring characters. Excitement would occur when they could play games in any other subject except maths and literacy, and more excitement the next year when they could click on the next year group.
* **Leavers'** (or **end of year** or **summer**) **production** - Year 6 children learn a script the teachers bought off a website especially designed to celebrate the concept of primary school or get revenge on the devil students by giving them embarrassing lines. Year 4 and 5 will usually sing a song or two but the focus will be on the Year 6 children.
* **Nativity** - the infant school will put on a show celebrating the birth of Jesus. Depending on the school, the productions will either have a fun spin on the Christmas story, or will be boring as hell.
* **Nine Lessons and Carols** - the junior school will put on a snore-inducing show of singing carols and reading parts of the Christmas story. If a class is lucky, they will get to sing a Christmas song that actually got on the charts and the other classes will be jealous. Some teachers will make their students learn Silent Night in German (Stille Nacht), or O Come All Ye Faithful (Adeste Fideles laeti triumphantes) in Latin to look cleverer when in fact the children have no idea what they are saying.
* **Parent's Evening** - sometimes the child will sit in, sometimes they will not. If the latter situation occurs, teachers and parents will bitch about everything that goes on in the child's life, like how many friends they have, who they should try and become friends with, or the psychology behind the way they react when they get nutmegged on the football pitch.
* **PGL** - a residential trip schools bribe their students with to make it to Year 6. PGL is the centre where classes spend a week doing extreme active things such as climbing, quad biking and trampolining. This is the teachers' opportunity to group together enemies in the class in hopes they will either cause juicy drama or become friends.
* **Show and Tell** - a few minutes shoe horned in at the end of the day for an opportunity to let a child stand up in front of the class and boast about his big brother's birthday party on Saturday, for another to show off the model of the Titanic they made, or a fossil they bought on holiday to Cornwall.
* **Teaching Assistant** - the teacher’s sidekick who does the teacher's handy work. This includes pulling children out of the lesson for reading assessments, spelling assessments and catching up.
* **Wet Play** - not as dirty as it sounds, this would happen when it's too rainy to send children outside and they would be allowed to stay inside. For the arty children, this is a dream come true as they get to draw and write whatever they want. For the boys, they will hate it and want to play football. For older years, chaos may ensue such as organising fake weddings between the most legit couple in the class, or lunch supervisors will come in to tell them they're being too loud.