✈️ Academic route

FROM🇨🇭 SwitzerlandTO🇳🇿 New Zealand

Switzerland Grade 4 / Year 4 to New Zealand: education route

Compare Grade 4 / Year 4 in Switzerland with the corresponding school stage in New Zealand, then open the official curriculum and placement authorities for both systems.

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Route alignment

Switzerland describes this point as Primary level. New Zealand describes the receiving stage as Years 1–6. Use the linked destination framework with the learner’s current subjects and records when confirming the receiving year and placement process.

DEPARTING STAGEPrimary levelARRIVING STAGEYears 1–6

📚 Side-by-side

What crosses with the learner

Route point🇨🇭 Switzerland🇳🇿 New Zealand
Current stagePrimary levelYears 1–6
Education authorityThe cantons hold primary responsibility for compulsory education; the Confederation and cantons coordinate upper-secondary and tertiary pathways.A national curriculum covers Years 1–13; senior-secondary qualifications are in an active transition from NCEA.
Application fileCurrent school records and subject historyReceiving authority and school placement requirements

🧳 Preparation file

Bring these into the route

  1. Recent report cards or transcripts and the current subject list
  2. School-attendance and progression records requested by the receiving school
  3. Identity, residence, guardianship, and address documents required locally
  4. Certified translations and language-learning history where requested

🔗 Official links

Open the issuing sources

🎓 Practice the route

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🔎 Also described as

moving from Switzerland to New Zealand for Grade 4 / Year 4Switzerland Grade 4 / Year 4 in New ZealandSwitzerland to New Zealand school transfer requirements