Presentation on the differences between the English and the Spanish education systems by B2-2 students Laura Roldán, María Muñoz, Eva Mª Luque, Milagros Lebrón, and Lidia Martínez at the EOI Fuengirola.

1. ENGLISH and SPANISH EDUCATION SYSTEM
• Compulsory /free: 5 to 16 years of age. • Compulsory /free: 6 to 16 years of age
• Supported by: Dept. for Education /Dept. • Supported by: Goverment in each region.
for Business, Innovation and Skills. • Estructure:
• Estructure:
YEAR AGE COURSES CYCLES
YEAR AGE CURRICULUM PREE-SCHOOL 3
STAGE 4
NURSERY 3 5
PRIMARY 4 6
SCHOOL 5 PRIMARY
Key Stage 1 7 1º Primary First
6 SCHOOL
Cycle
7 8 2º
8 9 3º
Key Stage 2 Second
9 10 4º Cycle
10
SECONDARY 11 11 5º
Third
SCHOOL 12 12 6º Cycle
Key Stage 3
13
COMPULSORY 13 1º ESO
14 First
SECONDARY 14 2º
15
Key Stage 4 EDUCATION 15 3º
16 Second
17 Sixth Form 16 4º
18 Collage POST- 17 1º
TERCIARY COMPULSORY
18+ 18 2º
SCHOOL SCHOOL

2. - PRIMARY SCHOOL-
England Spain
- Financing It depends on the academic and - All schools same budget
profesionals results. allocation.
- With projects can get
more money.
- Subjects.
England Spain
Specialist School Specialist School… - Proyects….
Maths, language. Peace, interlutural, NNTT,
bilingual…
Foreign language. - Start in KS 3 ( equivalent of - Start in Reception School
Primary 6º in Spain) as a subject.
- Bilingual schools are
being introduced.
- Working manner.
England Spain
Planning Teachers send their weekly - Teachers planning and
planification to the director to inspector can ask for their
supervise. 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.

3. - Celebrations.
England Spain
Halloween, Book day, peace day,
Valentin´s day, Bake sale, Book fair, Christmas…
Christmas,…
- Material resources.
England Spain
- Displays. - Not always in Primary.
- A lot of resources. - Not a lot of resources. It depends
- Children haven´t got their own books: they use of the school.
photocopies or school books. - Children have their own textbooks.
- Schools buy materials (notebooks. Pencils…) In Andalucia, they are lend by the
“Junta de Andalucía”.
- Parents buy materials.
- Personal resources.
England Spain
-Teaching Assistants - There are not teaching assistant.
Support the tutor in the daily work. Only another teacher for subjects
- Midday Assistants. like music or English.
responsible for preparing the dining room, tea children rarely leave the class unless
break, photocopying ... they have special educational needs
- ELT o Linguistic Assistants. - Sometimes in bilingual schools
To reinforce children´s reading. may have conversation assistants.

4. 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.

5. England Spain
Compulsory years 11 - 16 12 - 16
GCSE YES NO
(General Certificate of
Secondary Education)
Targets (on the wall of YES NO
class)
House points YES NO
Letters Words or numbers
Test (assessment) From A to F + Distinction From fail to excellent +
Distinction
Headteacher gives NO YES
lessons

6. England Spain
SUBJECTS Geography NO YES
and History (KS4 = 3ºand
4º ESO)
Uniforms YES NO
“Half-Term” Holiday YES NO
Continuous teacher Frequent Less frequent
training
Classification school list. Publid No Public
According to the academic
results.