BENENDEN SCHOOL

Benenden School is one of the famous and rich girls school in British. This is leading boarding school, and gives students high education. There are about 520 students aged 11-18,and the school is located in the Kent countryside.

★GOAL★
This school's goal is that students should graduate school with their best possible score of GCAE, AS and A Level but also with a wide range of other talents and abilities, with the skills and confidence, with a close circle of friends to support them through the year ahead and with happy memories of their schooldays.

★SPORTS★
Students plays sports at least three times a week and the school competes against the another school or club. So the school offers excellent sports facilities like 8 lacrosse pitches, 12 all-weather tennis courts, a fitness suite, a sports hall, a multi purpose gymnasium, an indoor heated swimming poor, 2 squash courts and an athletics field with grass running track.

+subject of sports+
Aerobics, Athletics, Badminton, Ballet, Basketball, Croquet, Cross Country Running, Dance, Fencing, Gymnastics, Hockey, Lacrosse, Judo and Self Defence, Netball, Riding, Rounders, Sailing, Scuba Diving, Squash, Swimming, Tennis, Trampolining Volleyball, Windsurfing

http://www.benenden.kent.sch.uk/School%20Life/Pages/default.aspx

*UNIVERSITY IN BRITISH*

The education of university in Britain is called 'Higher Education'. The history of university's education passed over 900 years. There are about 150 universities and all universities except Buckingham University are public school. The university is divided into two groups 'Old University' and 'New University'.


☆Old Universities
The university which offer the education and study activity of the world highest level and have long history is Old University such as Oxford University, Cambridge University, Durham University and so on. There are about 20 universities. I'd like to introduce famous one of the old universities 'University of Oxford'. Oxford was fisrt university in the English-speaking world. The aim of this university is the front of center of learning, teaching and research. There are about 20,000 students and 180,000 alumni. Also over 35% (7,100) people of all students are from foreign country like USA, China, Germany, France, Canada, Italy and so on.


☆New Universities
The University which was established from 1960 downward and offer practical education of the occupation is New University such as the University of Stirling, the University of York and so on. I tell you about University of York. The university of York was founded in 1963. There are 11,000 students and over 30 academic depertments and research centers. This university offer students a high-quality academic experience, a strong commitment to student support. Also there are many excange students from Brazil, Canada, China, Japan and so on.



☆A Level
This is a test to enter the university, so students who want to go to university study 3 or 4 subjects for 2 years at Sixth Form to get high score. The higher you get, you can enter high level universuty.

☆BRITISH CLASS☆

There is class which is divided by economy and social position in British. First, there were 3 classes, Upper Class, Middle Class, and Working Class. And then, Middle Class were divided 3 classes, Upper Middle Class, Middle Class, and Lower Middle Class, so generally, British are classfied into 5 classes, and there is difference by each class such as life style, education, speech and so on.

＊Upper Class
The top of class in British is upper class. Royal family, aristocrats, politicians, captains and so on belong to this class. They have not only a lotof money but also high social status. They are succeeded their house from generation to generation.

＊Middle Class
-upper middle class

　lawyers, doctors, artchiect, etc.
-middle claas

　member of the Diet, manager, executive, grower, inspector, etc.
-lower middle class

　photographer, bank officer, real estate agent, secretary, etc.

They long to live in detached house, but detached house is too expensive for middle class people. So many middle class live in semi-detached house. Also they like high culture like classical music, ballet, and cricket.

＊Working Class

The job of this class is waiter, carpenters, fisherman, postal deriverer and so on. They live in terraced house. Also they like beer, football, and music-hall that is overall entertainment mixed with musical, skit and a comic dialogue by two camedians.