It is well snide that we are getting split up from our mates in the new forms. Especially because it will be our last year so we should stay with our mates because after school, some of us won't see each other again. I wouldn't of minded it if we had been moved in like year 8 or summat but its pointless in changing it for out year now.
I agree.
thankyou Izzy for your support 
I know this is harder for the Year 10 students and we are certainly very symapthetic to this. You are only being 'split up' in terms of your form group formation and will still have plenty of time as a year group in lessons and with whoever you like at lunches and breaks. Whenever we did this change, it would have been difficult for the older students because of the time they have spent together but it is something that will be easy to adapt to and quick to give benefits.
you're only guarunteed one of your friends in your new form...so what happens if you and your friend stop talking which does happen...they're the only one you're close to so you end up sitting on your own for twenty minutes a day...it is a lot regardless of what people say..
I think this whole thing is a good idea but it has a lot..A LOT of flaws.
I would hate to have to be that one person sitting on my own because my only friend in the whole form had had an argument with me...that's just not nice
i agree, that would suck, even if you're the oldest in the form most year 11s don't really want to have their only friends in the form as year 7
But in your new forms you will make new friends? So it won't just be your one friend, it will ideally be 20 friends! Now unfortunately in life, no-one gets on with everyone, but there'll be more than just that one person that you could talk to. I help teach a year seven science classs once a week for integrated studies, and they're all confident to say hello to me in the corridor, they know that i'm not going to jump on them and beat them up!
Surely if everyone had this oppurtunity, and knew those in the years above them, they'd be more trusting of those above us, making the school a more friendly place?
Adam
*Edited to add: Jaz, I'd have said you'll find it'll be more that the year 10's and 11's make friends, and 7's and 8's, and 8's and 9's etc. A year 10 and 11 will have more in common, and could be as little as days apart in age. I'm a relativaly young in my year, being born in July, so some of my friends in the yeargroup below are actually only 2 months younger than me in age, so out of school, are the same maturity of me, and are at the same general stage in life I find. *
Great reply, Adam - especially as someone who has been in a Vertical Tutoring school and knows how they work and that people d.o genuinely mix outside of their year group and make genuine friendships. As Adam says, the difference in age between different years can be much less than the difference in age within a year group. The year group system creates false blocks to social interaction through the September 1st cut off date for each year.
It's not that i hate all the other years but lets be realistic, you're not going to make friends with everyone in you're form. (This isn't personal to anyone) Some of the younger years can be quite obnoxious and think they're 'cool' to make fun of older years and then others will be terrified of the (soon to be) year 11's.
I don't mind being with younger years or older years, i was born in August so almost all of my friends are older than me except one. I also get along with my year 7 sister and her friends so it's not me I'm worried about but other people who find it hard to make friends with younger years and think it's 'uncool'.
I think that we should stay in our normal forms (year 10) as we have been with them for so long. We are splitting up and one of my friends in my form is only in one my lessons so its going to be hard. I also hate some younger years, as jaz said they think they are so cool and they are also loud and anoying.
That sucks, did you put them down for the form?
Yup!
I think that a lot of the problems you mentioned with different year groups not really mixing very well at the moment is down to the fact that year groups don't really come in to contact with each other very much under the system we have. When the year groups are mixed up in forms I think you will probably find that a lot of these problems go away to be a large extent.
Quote: "I'm worried about but other people who find it hard to make friends with younger years and think it's 'uncool'."
But why do they think it's 'uncool' ? Purely because at the moment, not everyone does it, and that they haven't tried it. If there is a group of people, and one person does something different, it is quite common that the one person will be teased for doing that one thing, either because they're jealous and daren't do it themselves, or that they don't understand it.
So I think you'll find that when everyone has more experiance with it, it won't be an 'uncool' thing, and instead you will find some of the benefits of it. Say as a year 10/11 for a piece of coursework you have to write for a target audience of 11 year olds. If you know some year sevens then you will understand better on how to write for 11 year olds, and also will be able to ask them to read it for you.
Adam
yeah, i suppose.
I don't disagree with the system or choose not to integrate with the younger years because I think it is the 'cool' thing to do. Also I was a year seven once, it is merely the passage of time that means I no longer am one, so that second paragraph bears no relevance, and seems unlikely anyway.
With regards, Cameron MacLeod
I went and visited Selby hight school with 10 diffrent year 10's and they were really truthful and admitted they didnt like the idea when it first started, But now they love it!
The diffrent years are mixing and everything.
I think the current year 9's and 10's wont see VT working properly but im sure it will aventually start to find its path through everybody.
Jordan.
I love my form :-) And we're even getting form hoodies, and this is affecting our year the most considering we've been together for so long. And I do have lots of other friends in different years - but our forms are nice kept with just the same year group. I do agree that we'll all make new friends in our new forms - but i'm just worried of been with someone I REALLY don't get on with :-/