leading tone - (music) the seventh note of the diatonic scale. subtonic. musical note, note, tone - a notation representing the pitch and duration of a musical sound; the singer held the note too long. music - an artistic form of auditory communication incorporating instrumental or vocal tones in a structured and continuous manner.
Typical ages and grade groupings in contemporary, public and private schools may be found through the U.S. Department of Education. Generally there are three stages: elementary school (K-5th/6th grade), middle school (6th/7th-8th grades) and high school (9thâ12th grades).
There are four types of mainstream state schools funded by local authorities which are known as maintained schools. They all follow the National Curriculum and are inspected by Ofsted (the governmentâs Office for Standards in Education, Childrenâs Services and Skills).ommunity schools are run by the local education authority (LEA), which employs the school staff, owns the land and buildings and sets the entrance criteria, for example catchment area, or admissions policy, that decide which children are eligible for a place.