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Jude wrote:horsham started with 2nd yrs at 10/11
Hertford started at 1 with 11/12 yrs

as for the new numbering system I haven't a clue!
only 6 more to go to my BUTTONS!!!!!!!!!)
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Katharine wrote:
Jude wrote:horsham started with 2nd yrs at 10/11
Hertford started at 1 with 11/12 yrs

as for the new numbering system I haven't a clue!
only 6 more to go to my BUTTONS!!!!!!!!!)
Not always, Jude, ask Kerren
True - but if we compiled a list it would have to go back to the "Start of our Foundation".... drat that song is now in my head! we would have oodles and noodles of numbers for each age - and never be anywhere nearer to understanding them!
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When I went into the First Form in Hertford I was 9 years old... not 11
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kerrensimmonds wrote:When I went into the First Form in Hertford I was 9 years old... not 11
ahh you poor wee thing!
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Katharine wrote:It would be good if someone could work out a list of forms at both schools and ages so we can all compare easily.
I did that a while back, I will try and find it.
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englishangel wrote:
Katharine wrote:It would be good if someone could work out a list of forms at both schools and ages so we can all compare easily.
I did that a while back, I will try and find it.
happy hunting Mary!!
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Hi

Just to add a little more confusion.

I was in Lower Four Alpha for a while (a year? half a century?) as were a whole classful of fellow pupils.

Never understood the "Alpha" status though it was rumoured we were slotted between the "As" and the "Bs"

It was not normally written in full of course but my keyboard doesn't have an "Alpha", closest I can do is & or maybe ~ <VBG>
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2nd Form.
3rd Form.
Little Erasmus/Lower Fourth
Upper Fourth
Great Erasmus
Deputy Grecians
Grecians

Does it still go like that now or do they go

Year 7 - 2nd Form
Year 8 - 3rd Form
year 9 - Lower Fourth
Year 10 - Upper Fourth
Year 11 - Great Erasmus
Year 12 - Deputy Grecians
Year 13 - Grecians

And how did they go at Hertford?
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Exactly as your second suggestion but instead of Lower Fourth, it's Little Erasmus...
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soc wrote:2nd Form.
3rd Form.
Little Erasmus/Lower Fourth
Upper Fourth
Great Erasmus
Deputy Grecians
Grecians

Does it still go like that now or do they go

Year 7 - 2nd Form
Year 8 - 3rd Form
year 9 - Lower Fourth
Year 10 - Upper Fourth
Year 11 - Great Erasmus
Year 12 - Deputy Grecians
Year 13 - Grecians

And how did they go at Hertford?
Year 7 - 2nd Form 1st form
Year 8 - 3rd Form 2nd form
year 9 - Lower Fourth 3rd form
Year 10 - Upper Fourth Fourth Form
Year 11 - Great Erasmus Fifth form
Year 12 - Deputy Grecians Lower sixth
Year 13 - Grecians Upper sixth


These were from about 1969 onwards once there had stopped being years 5 and 6 (who had been first and second formers at the time).
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I am not sure, Mary. What about Upper and Lower Fourth and Upper and Lower Fifth?

Age 9 - 10 - First Form
Age 10 - 11 - Second Form
Age 11 - 12 - Third Form (where most people joined)
Age 12 - 13 - Lower Fourth
Age 13 - 14 - Upper Fourth
Age 14 - 15 - Lower Fifth
Age 15 - 16 - Upper Fifth
Age 16 - 17 - Lower Sixth
Age 17 - 18 - Upper Sixth
(if you were young for your age and very clever you might also be age 18 in the Senior Sixth)

Year 7 - 2nd Form 1st form
Year 8 - 3rd Form 2nd form
year 9 - Lower Fourth 3rd form
Year 10 - Upper Fourth Fourth Form
Year 11 - Great Erasmus Fifth form
Year 12 - Deputy Grecians Lower sixth
Year 13 - Grecians Upper sixth
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What's senior sixth?
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Great Plum wrote:What's senior sixth?
Third year 6th.
The great difficulty in the 1940's and early 50's was that 11+ starters went into the Lower ivth, but they started learning French in the 3rd form, so we had to do 2 year's worth of work in 1 year. The "extra" group was taught by Miss Bailey(?) who normally taught German.
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In my day (and as you can see from Mary's and my postings, I was a bit before her, and they changed things after I left), the Senior Sixth was a third year in the sixth form for people (not many of them) who had taken A levels young and who were then being groomed for Oxford or Cambridge entry. If there was a 'Senior Sixth' the Head Girl was usually drawn from that year - and then sometimes left at Christmas time so someone else had to be appointed to take over for the rest of the year. This is exactly what happened in my final year, 1965-1966.
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kerrensimmonds wrote:I am not sure, Mary. What about Upper and Lower Fourth and Upper and Lower Fifth?

Age 9 - 10 - First Form
Age 10 - 11 - Second Form
Age 11 - 12 - Third Form (where most people joined)
Age 12 - 13 - Lower Fourth
Age 13 - 14 - Upper Fourth
Age 14 - 15 - Lower Fifth
Age 15 - 16 - Upper Fifth
Age 16 - 17 - Lower Sixth
Age 17 - 18 - Upper Sixth
(if you were young for your age and very clever you might also be age 18 in the Senior Sixth)

Year 7 - 2nd Form 1st form
Year 8 - 3rd Form 2nd form
year 9 - Lower Fourth 3rd form
Year 10 - Upper Fourth Fourth Form
Year 11 - Great Erasmus Fifth form
Year 12 - Deputy Grecians Lower sixth
Year 13 - Grecians Upper sixth
as I said, the above was from about 1969.

Between 65/66 when Kerren left (which was also the last year for year 6 10-11 yo. we had an odd assortment of year names so anyone who had been in a IVth for or Vth form didnt have to go back to a lower number.

I think I went IIIrd form, Lower IV, Upper IV, 4th form, 5th form.
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