Originally Posted by leby

Help!!!!! We are moving to perth in March so I am trying to enrol my three children into school, but every e-mail I get back from schools, all tell me different, my eldest son is just 14 and in yr 10 at school, will he go into yr 10 in Australia, or will he go back a yr??????????????????? my daughter is 12yr old at the end of this month but has just gone into secondary school last week, what year will she go into???????????my youngest son is not a problem because he will just go into primary school age 6.

has any one got any answers :)

lisa

Originally Posted by leby

Help!!!!! We are moving to perth in March so I am trying to enrol my three children into school, but every e-mail I get back from schools, all tell me different, my eldest son is just 14 and in yr 10 at school, will he go into yr 10 in Australia, or will he go back a yr??????????????????? my daughter is 12yr old at the end of this month but has just gone into secondary school last week, what year will she go into???????????my youngest son is not a problem because he will just go into primary school age 6.

has any one got any answers :)

lisa

Originally Posted by cranni

my son was 12 in july, he is yr 7, he goes to secondary school in Feb, hope this helps. Denise

Originally Posted by Xgeminix

Ok, if I've got this right the start of the school year in WA is the beginning of Feb so your 14 year old son will still be in year 10 when he arrives in March and will not reach year 11 until Feb 2007, so he will do an extra 4 months in year 10. Your 12 year old daugher will still be in year 7 but secondary school doesn't start until year 8 in WA so she will spend an extra 10 months in Primary school. I need somebody to confirm this though as I'm only 99.5% sure. Different states have different schooling policies.

Originally Posted by leby

thank you for that, you are the only one I have had a straight answer off!!!!!!
thanks lisa