ENGLISH and SPANISH EDUCATION SYSTEM

• Compulsory /free: 5 to 16 years of age.• Supported by: Dept. for Education /Dept.

for Business, Innovation and Skills.• Estructure:

• Compulsory /free: 6 to 16 years of age• Supported by: Goverment in each region.• Estructure:

YEAR AGE CURRICULUM STAGE

NURSERY 3PRIMARY SCHOOL

45 Key Stage 167

Key Stage 289

10SECONDARY SCHOOL

11

Key Stage 312131415 Key Stage 41617 Sixth Form

Collage18TERCIARY SCHOOL 18+

YEAR AGE COURSES CYCLESPREE-SCHOOL 3

456

PRIMARY SCHOOL

7 1º Primary First Cycle8 2º

9 3º Second Cycle10 4º

11 5º Third Cycle12 6º

COMPULSORY SECONDARY EDUCATION

13 1º ESO First14 2º15 3º

Second16 4ºPOST-

COMPULSORY SCHOOL

17 1º

18 2º

England Spain- Financing It depends on the academic and

profesionals results. - All schools same budget allocation.- With projects can get more money.

- PRIMARY SCHOOL-

- Subjects.England Spain

Specialist School Specialist School…Maths, language.

- Proyects….Peace, interlutural, NNTT, bilingual…

Foreign language. - Start in KS 3 ( equivalent of Primary 6º in Spain)

- Start in Reception School as a subject. - Bilingual schools are being introduced.

- Working manner.England Spain

Planning Teachers send their weekly planification to the director to supervise.

- Teachers planning and inspector can ask for their planning when he/she wants, normally not every week.

Assembly With all the school. Into the class. Normally, more common in reception school than in Primary.

Groups Division Each class is divided on levels Normally not divided in levels, althouth it depends on the teacher decision.

- Celebrations. England SpainHalloween,Valentin´s day, Bake sale, Book fair, Christmas,…

Book day, peace day, Christmas…

- Material resources.

England Spain

- Displays.- A lot of resources. - Children haven´t got their own books: they use photocopies or school books. - Schools buy materials (notebooks. Pencils…)

- Not always in Primary. - Not a lot of resources. It depends of the school. - Children have their own textbooks. In Andalucia, they are lend by the “Junta de Andalucía”. - Parents buy materials.

- Personal resources.England Spain

-Teaching AssistantsSupport the tutor in the daily work.- Midday Assistants.responsible for preparing the dining room, tea break, photocopying ...- ELT o Linguistic Assistants.To reinforce children´s reading.

- There are not teaching assistant. Only another teacher for subjects like music or English.children rarely leave the class unless they have special educational needs- Sometimes in bilingual schools may have conversation assistants.

Schooling is compulsory between the ages of 6 and 16 years. There are 6 years of compulsory primary education and 4 years of compulsory secondary education. It is common to send children to school from about the age of 3 years but starting infants school at this age is not compulsory. 

In Spain, the academic year runs from September until June, so as we all know, children that were born on December, are the youngest.  But oppositelly, In England and Wales children whose birthdays fall between September and December are usually the eldest in the class, but in Spainwould be the opposite.  

In Spain, compulsory schooling could last longer than what is the case in England and Wales where all students progress from one year to the next automatically. In Spanish state schools students have to meet teaching and learning objectives. 

England Spain

Compulsory years 11 - 16 12 - 16

GCSE YES NO(General Certificate ofSecondary Education)

Targets (on the wall of YES NOclass)

House points YES NO

Letters Words or numbersTest (assessment) From A to F + Distinction From fail to excellent +

Distinction

Headteacher gives NO YESlessons

England Spain

SUBJECTS Geography NO YESand History (KS4 = 3ºand

4º ESO)

Uniforms YES NO

“Half-Term” Holiday YES NO

Continuous teacher Frequent Less frequenttraining

Classification school list. Publid No PublicAccording to the academicresults.