Lupin, a word!

[dungrollin]

> potioncat wrote:
> > What do Brits call the first school taht children attend? The 
one for 5/6 years up to 11ish? Primary, elementary, grammar... I 
need a good general word.
> 

Dung:

I went to Infant School from 4/5, 5/6 and 6/7 years old, then Junior 
School from 7/8, 8/9, 9/10, 10/11 years old. Infant and Junior 
schools can be lumped together into Primary School. So I went to 
Coombe Hill Infant School, and then Coombe Hill Junior School, 
though they were separate schools with separate sports days, 
assemblies etc, they were on the same site. Then you have 
Secondary/Senior/High school from 11-18. 

However, there are also 'middle schools', which belong to another 
system with which I am not at all familiar. I think they end 
somewhere around the age of 13, but don't quote me on that... Geoff 
would probably know.

Dung.
(BTW, I've never heard any non-pretentious native of the UK use the 
word 'kindergarten'. We call it 'nursery school' or 'playgroup'.)