The British school

dropdown English children must go to school when they are five. First they go to infant schools, where they learn the first steps in reading, writing and using numbers.When children leave the infant school, at the age of seven, they go to junior schools until they are about eleven years of age. Their school subjects are English, arithmetic, history, geography, nature study, swimming, music, art, religious instruction and organised games. dropdown About 40% of elementary school leavers in Britain go to secondary modern schools. Modern schools are the most popular secondary schools, but they do not provide complete secondary education, because study programmes are rather limited. dropdown There are many schools in Britain which are not controlled by the state. They are private schools, separate for boys and girls, and the biggest and the most important of them are public schools. They are expensive and train young people for political, diplomatic, military and religious service. Other non-state schools are independent and preparatory schools.