My Primary School

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My Old Primary school is a state primary school this is a free to attend school but you must meet a set of criteria to be eligible.

Child must be registered as a dependant.

Child must live with you.

You must show you can accommodate and support your child financially. WWW.Education.org (online)

There are a few more regulations that may have needed to be met by certain families. Generally if you could not afford to pay for your child's education then your child went to a state school.

Location

My old Primary school was based in Northampton, it was surrounded by house which formed a border around the school field, we had two major parks near the site it had one main road for entry which generally was extremely busy throughout the day. The site itself had a main school building a separate sports, and home for the caretaker and his family. The school also had tennis courts, hockey pitch and a huge sports field that was used for cricket, rugby and football.

Intake

There seemed to be no restrictions with regards to social class of people that attended my old school but generally you would find middle and lower class social groups. Middle class is a set of people in the middle of social hierarchy. And lower class which is also known as working class refers to people at the bottom of the social hierarchy – Great British class survey, wikipedia. The ability of pupils varied as there is such a broad group of intake but generally those that went to state school were deemed less knowledgeable than those who went to private school.

Rules and regulations

My old primary school uniform consisted of black shoes, trousers and socks, white shirt and red and gold tie, my old uniform was based on the socialist way of thinking and was compulsory to me going to a state school, we had many rules and regulations some of which as follows.

No running

No talking during lessons

No eating in classrooms

No large ball (tennis ball accepted)

No fighting

Must look presentable at all times

No trainers

If we did not follow these rules and many others that we had in place that there were various consequences or punishments that were used depending on the severity of the incident.

Staff

My old primary school staff had a mix of male and female teachers their ages ranged from mid 20’s to retirement age. We had a lot of strict and uptight teachers that can be described of having authoritarian tendencies this means the teacher is seen as punitive and restrictive (wenning C,J 1998).

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