A Comparsion between a school in Australia and one here in SWE

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A comparison between an Australian school and our school in Sweden


I''''ve been reading about an Australian school. Their rules are a bit different to the rules in our school here in Sweden. They don''''t get any food at school so they have to bring their own, or buy food in the tuck-shop. Here in Sweden we get food at school every day. I think its better here in Sweden, they can’t take with them what food they want. They have to warm their food up in a microwave or something and I think it would get more expensive for the parents to buy school lunch for their kids every single day.

In the Australian school they are not allowed to call their teachers by their first names, they have to call them Mrs…Mr…Miss… or Sir. Here in Sweden we almost call them whatever we want to, we mostly call them by their first names. Sometimes we give them a nickname, but we don’t call them something stupid. For example: We are allowed to call our science teacher Hans, Hasse and other names like that. I think it would be very boring if we had to call them Mr… Mrs and so on.

They get detention and a letter sent home to their parents if they swear or misbehave repeatedly. They also can get suspended from school for more serious crimes. It means that they are not allowed to return to school at all. We don’t have any of those rules here in Sweden, well we do get a letter sent home to our parents if we are late. But no one cares about it. I think they have too many rules in Australia, but the schools in Sweden nearly don’t have any rules at all. They can’t even take their mobiles or walkmans to school. We can listen to music during lessons, but not too loud and not when someone is talking. They have a list full of stuff that’s prohibited. The only thing we can’t take to school is drugs, alcohol and weapons.

About the school uniforms... Well I think that it’s a very good idea, but somehow I don’t. It’s a good idea because no one has to feel left outside because of how they dress. If you see someone walking on the street you can see what school they belong to immediately, that would be a good thing. At least I think so… But it would be pretty boring if everyone were wearing the same clothes. Wouldn’t it become a little to expensive to some schools, in our school we nearly can’t get two pencils each. I mean it, we can’t even get two pencils a year! So how would our school get money for uniforms? Now I get it, it’s like a basketball team. At first the school buys it. Then the pupils buy it from their school, and then it’s a very good idea… But I wouldn’t like to wear a skirt every day, especially not in the winter. And I don’t think it would be fun if everyone looked the same.

The schedule in the Australian school is a bit different to ours. They begin the day with form class at 8:25 am. We have form class at Mondays and Thursdays. They have morning tea which they eat and talk to friends. We don’t have any “morning tea”, actually we don’t have any other break where we eat except lunch. Sometimes we can get really hungry because the lunches are so late. They also finish the day at 3:15 p.m. But of course do we have some days that we finish school a little later.
They have some subjects in the Australian school that we don''''t have. For example: Speech and drama, Japanese, bible studies. I think we have enough subjects already. They get to try some new subjects in grade 8, we’ve always had the same subjects, except in grade 6 where we choose a language we want to study. They do sports twice a week. I guess that’s beside the physical education. That’s a lot more than we do, well that’s if you’re not in a special sport class. The schools in other countries like Australia always seems to have a lot of school plays, we never have any. I don’t know why, maybe no one is interested. We do have a choir at our school, and we did have a school band.
I don’t know if we have a new one…

Children between the ages of 6 and 16 must go to school in Australia....