This document compares and contrasts schools in the UK and Catalonia. It notes that in Catalonia, most schools do not require uniforms while uniforms are common in UK primary schools. It also discusses differences in school schedules, with UK schools having shorter days than Spanish schools. The document also mentions rewards systems for good behavior differ, with UK schools using a Golden Time on Fridays while Catalan schools do not have this system.

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In this article we want to show you the differences between British and
Catalan schools.
Children in our primary schools don’t wear uniforms. We don’t like
to wear uniforms because we like to choose our clothes. In the UK
children wear: shoes, trousers, jumpers, T-shirts, etc., as school
uniform. In Catalonia only a few schools have a uniform.
School timetable in UK primary schools is shorter than Spanish
timetable. They start at 8:40 a.m. and finish at 3:15 p.m. Here in Spain we
startat9:00 a.m. and finish at 5:00 p.m. Asyour see, in primary schools in the UK,
children work for seven hours and fifty-five minutes, and here children work for of
eight hours, that in all week are twenty-five minutes.
In theBritish primary schoolsthey give an award to
good children. It is a specialtime on Friday called
Golden Time. Children can spend 30 minutes where
they want: the playground, the reading corner…
Naughty childrenhave to stay in class.!
Inour schools the subjects are Spanish, English, maths,
Catalan, P.I., science…in British schools the subject
there are religion, I.C.T., English, assembly, science and
they don’t study other languagesas we do but we don’t
have assembly..