In great Britain children start going to school when they are five and continue studying until they are 16 or older. Compulsory education begins at the age of 5 when children go to primary school. Primary education lasts for 6 years. First they attend theinfant school from 5 to 7.   In infant schools children don’t have real classes. They get acquainted with the classroom, desks, play and learn through playing. They learn numbers and how to add them.   When the children are seven 7 they go to junior school which they attend until 11. Boys an girls study at junior school for 4 years. There they have classes, read and write, do mathematics. Then they go to secondary school.  At secondary school pupils study English, Mathematics, Science, Geography, History, Art, Music, Foreign languages and Physical training PT.   There are some types of secondary school in Great Britain. They are grammar schools, modern school and comprehensive schools. One can attend modern school but pupils of a modern school don’t learn foreign languages.