When my daughter joined her senior school, I was totally bemused. Brought up in the school system of the ‘70's which had infant 1 and 2, Junior 1, 2, 3 and 4, followed by senior 1 to 5 with lower and upper 6th, I had just adapted to the Year 1 – 11 format, but was now faced with words like syntax, poetry and rudiments.
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