School

Uniforms in school:

In many schools in England the children must wear uniforms. The boy’s uniforms are long grey or black trousers, white shirts, tie, sweater with school logo on (the color is the choice of the schools) and black shoes. The girl’s uniforms are the same as the boy’s, but they can wear skirts, and in the summer time they often wear summer dresses.

Years in school

All children between 5 and 16 year must go to school. After and before that the schools are optional.

Schools type

They have a school system with four different school steps. The two of them are a must. The two schools steps are primary and secondary school. The two schools steps are from the ages of 5 to 16. After secondary school when you are in an age of 16 +, you can pick a colleges to went.

Here are the four school steps:

Infant: 3-5 years old (a kind of kindergarten)
Primary: 5-11 years old
Secondary: 11-16 years old
Six form colleges: 16 +

Anne and Kristian

London

Welcome to this blog.

While we are talking about the beautiful England, we have to learn about the capital of Great Britain.

Some of the basic things in London is the mayor of London Alexander Boris de pfeffel Johnson, or better know at Boris Johnson.

Boris Johnson is a Conservatives, and he is a part the underhouse, Boris was educated at eton and Balliol college, Oxford, where he read classics, he began on journalistic career at the times, and afterwards began on writing at The Dailyna Telegraph, in 2001, Johnson was elected for Henley-on-Thamas, succeeding Michael Heseltine, have problem by being defeated in clwyd south in 1997, in 2004 he appointed to the front of the political bench as a “Shadow” Minister.

Jeppe M

Favorite Food

Favorite food

Many Englishmen goes to the pubs, which are very enjoyable.  The pub life has a rule, which is very tight. You must be 18 years to come inside.                                                                                                                       There are no waiters, at the pub.  The costumers have to order food and drinks, all by themselves.The difference between Danish and English food are huge. Most of their foods are from various cultures. Many People from different countries moves to England. After some years of living, their cultures of food become famous.   The British people are well- known about Fish and Chips.  Some food sells at the street, it can be eaten from a newspaper with salt and malt vinegar.    

Evija 

Two English specialties

Fish`n´chips

You will need:

Equipment:

A bowl
A sharp knife
A sifter
A cutting board
A whisk
A deep heavy bottom pan
A frying basket

Ingredients:

4 pieces of Cod or Haddock 0.151 Kg each
1 sprig fresh parsley


For the batter:

1 cup flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 egg
1 cup beer



: christmas pudding, or plum duff/pudding


The plum pudding's association with Christmas goes back to the old England with the Roman Catholic church's Control that the "pudding should be made on the twenty-fifth Sunday after Trinity, that it be prepared with thirteen ingredients to represent Christ and the twelve apostles and that every family member stir it in turn from east to west to honour the Magi and their supposed journey in that direction"


Mrs Beeton's Christmas Pudding Recipe


ingredients
8 oz moist sugar (use soft brown )
8 oz chopped suet or modern day equivalent
8 oz sultanas cleaned
8 oz raisins halved and stoned
4 oz currants washed and dried
4 oz shredded mixed candied peel - Cut your own or use ready cut
4 oz of plain flour
4 oz breadcrumbs
2 oz almonds blanched and shredded
the grated rind of a 1 lemon
3 eggs
a salt spoonful of  nutmeg grated
half a teaspoon of salt
quarter pint of milk
1 small wineglassful of brandy (optional)

The school system: 

Infant: 3-5 years old

Primary: 5-11 years old

Secondary: 11-16 years old

Six form colleges: 16 +.

Children between the ages of 5 and 16 must go to school, the average school class in primary school has 26 students.

England has government-funded schools and private schools where the parents pay the fees.
Everyone in an English school, has to wear school uniforms, there are many arguments for and against school uniforms, most people say that uniforms save money, because parents don't have to spend a lot of money on designer labels and students don't tease each other for wearing the wrong clothes, but the reasons against school uniforms are that everyone look alike and the students lose their individuality, and they do not learn to deal with people from different cultures and backgrounds.

Most of the English children go to state schools, while only 6% go to private schools, this might be because of the school fees are very expensive, the average cost for a child at a private school, £6000 per year, which is almost the same as 53.000 DKK, and the cost of a year at boarding school is about double the amount.

The most famous universities in England are Oxford and Cambridge, they have always attracted the best brains, and a degree from one of these universities can open many doors in life.

Sport plays a very important part of university life, and there are many competitions between the universities.
Traditionally, the Oxford teams wear dark blue and Cambridge wear light blue clothes, the media covers several of these sports events.

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Sport in England

Sports

England has some great sports stars - and teams, they have some of the best football teams in the world for ex: Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool etc. They have other great sportsmen too, for example Wayne Rooney and David Bechham (football players), Euan Burton (judo), Mark Cueto (rugby). They are also the inventors of cricket; England was terrified when they lost to Australia in cricket in 1882, because they had always been the best.

Football and rugby are also English games. They are both some of the biggest sports in the world.
English competitors won a lot of world cups, world championships etc.

In England you can also see people playing lawn bowling, it’s not as famous. It’s mostly elderly people that play. It’s played in New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom.

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London today

London is going green!
The air in London is more clean now than it used to be. They are creating new parks, with a lot of trees and flowers. They are working on cleaning the city. They encourage the big cars and trucks not too drive through London.

Tall, taller and tallest.
Until the 1960's the buildings in London weren't so high. They were about 30 metres tall.
Today London is full of skyscrabers and the tallest building is the Canary Wharf Tower, which is 235 metres tall. The Canary Wharf Towers, is located in the old docklands. It's used as a business place.

The old docklands.
The reason why there is room for offices and flats in the old docklands, is because the modern container ships are too big for the docks. So now the port has moved to Tilbury. The docklands was a place, where the ships came in and delivered stuff from other countries.

Tourists in London.
Tourists love going to London, infact 27 million visitors come to London each year.
That's why they have a lot of restaurants and hotels.

3 things you have to see in London:
Buckingham Palace.
Big Ben.
Tower of London.

3 things you have to do in London:
Try the London Eye.
Visit Hyde Park.

Eat Fish'n'chips.

   Christina and Amalie,    9.b ;-).