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brugklassers

English translation: first-formers


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GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW)
Dutch term or phrase:brugklassers
English translation:first-formers
Entered by: Jason Roberts
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03:24 May 9, 2004
Dutch to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Education / Pedagogy
Dutch term or phrase: brugklassers
Context: Terwijl overal in het land de schooldeuren weer openslaan, maken tienduizenden kersverse brugklassers hun eerste gang naar de ‘grote school’.

What is the appropriate (British) English of brugklassers?
Jason Roberts
Local time: 05:41
first-formers
Explanation:
according to Van Dale.

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Note added at 22 mins (2004-05-09 03:46:51 GMT)
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Lower School Course of Study
... First Form (seventh grade), in which sixteen to eighteen new boys join the ... First Formers also take religion, decisions, music, computer, art, and drama for a ...
staweb.sta.cathedral.org/admissions/ LSCatalog/ProgramOverview.htm - 16k

INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS INSPECTORATE
... 3.5 The school calls its eleven-year-old entrants First Formers and so on up to Fifth Formers for the GCSE year. This report has ...
www.isinspect.org.uk/reports/2002/1590_02_r.htm - 101k

COBA: News and Press Releases
... Bertram, Health Minister, John Junior, Information Minister ... relationship between the College and the High School. ... live on: Grade 7(first formers) students play ...
www.netsearchjamaica.com/calabaroldboys/newsreleases/ - 33k

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writeaway
Local time: 12:41
Grading comment
Excellent answer, thanks.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
3 +5first-formers
writeaway
4 -2Preppies (preparatory class pupils)
Louis Vorstermans


  

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11 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +5
first-formers


Explanation:
according to Van Dale.

--------------------------------------------------
Note added at 22 mins (2004-05-09 03:46:51 GMT)
--------------------------------------------------

Lower School Course of Study
... First Form (seventh grade), in which sixteen to eighteen new boys join the ... First Formers also take religion, decisions, music, computer, art, and drama for a ...
staweb.sta.cathedral.org/admissions/ LSCatalog/ProgramOverview.htm - 16k

INDEPENDENT SCHOOLS INSPECTORATE
... 3.5 The school calls its eleven-year-old entrants First Formers and so on up to Fifth Formers for the GCSE year. This report has ...
www.isinspect.org.uk/reports/2002/1590_02_r.htm - 101k

COBA: News and Press Releases
... Bertram, Health Minister, John Junior, Information Minister ... relationship between the College and the High School. ... live on: Grade 7(first formers) students play ...
www.netsearchjamaica.com/calabaroldboys/newsreleases/ - 33k



writeaway
Local time: 12:41
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Grading comment
Excellent answer, thanks.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  xxxwinterjasmij
3 hrs

agree  Ken Cox: the brugklas forms the transition between primary school and secondary school (hence the name); it also has essentially the same curriculum for all students (who must select a particular 'stream' in the following year)
8 hrs

agree  Mirjam Bonne-Nollen
8 hrs

agree  Iris70
9 hrs

agree  Saskia Steur
1 day4 hrs
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7 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -2
Preppies (preparatory class pupils)


Explanation:
five-year-olds usually spend the first year in prep class before going on to first grade. Hence the expression 'bridging class' (in Dutch).

Louis Vorstermans
Australia
Local time: 20:41
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  Ken Cox: the brugklas is the first year of secondary school, not the first year of primary school!
16 mins

disagree  SarahCimmermans: The "brugklas" is indeed the first year of secondary school, so it's about 12-year-olds we're talking!! How do I know this? I am Dutch and I went to school in the Netherlands.
2269 days
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