Stages in primary education
Basic education is divided into Grades/Year groups and organised as class instruction in Grades 1–6
(ages seven to 13) and as subject-specific instruction in the upper Grades 7–9 (ages 13-16). However,
there is local autonomy regarding the organisation of education; consequently an individual school‟s
curriculum may also determine its provision in another way. In Grades 1-6, pupils are mainly taught by
one class teacher and in Grades 7-9 mainly by specialist teachers for each subject (see Table 1)