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Being an old codger I can be out and about at all hours during the day and what amazes me is the amount of school children you see in the streeets.They are obviously out with permission because there are so many of them.Don't they do the 9.00 am -16.15pm anymore,or are the teachers doing their usual "teacher trainng"?????
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Some of the kids you see might be on the 14-19 Diploma courses set up in the last couple of years. The idea was, one school took all the kids from round about to do engineering, another school took them to do 'health and social care' (real, not a made up name) etc. Consequently kids have to be given time to get from their base school to the diploma school. Yes, I agree, its ***.
I'm a teacher. I leave home at 6.45 and get to school for 7.30 to start setting up rooms and finalising lesson plans and materials.
Pupils start to arrive at 8.00 and lessons start at 8.35. Lessons end at 3.30 but there are many after school revision classes, activities and detentions, phone calls to parents and meetings (and yes the occasional traininhg event) so I leave at 5.00-5.30. Approximately once a month we also have a parents' evening until 9.00 at night
( I won't bore you with details of marking and planning at home each evening and weekend.)
Pupils shouldn't be out during the day except perhaps at lunchtime but of course maybe 2-3% nip out for a smoke or just to escape lessons.
Pupils start to arrive at 8.00 and lessons start at 8.35. Lessons end at 3.30 but there are many after school revision classes, activities and detentions, phone calls to parents and meetings (and yes the occasional traininhg event) so I leave at 5.00-5.30. Approximately once a month we also have a parents' evening until 9.00 at night
( I won't bore you with details of marking and planning at home each evening and weekend.)
Pupils shouldn't be out during the day except perhaps at lunchtime but of course maybe 2-3% nip out for a smoke or just to escape lessons.
When I started teaching, in 1975, the school day finished at 3.30pm.
However it was decided that the lunch break was too long, because it resulted in lots of bored teenagers roaming the streets at lunchtime. Given that there were two other secondary schools within easy walking distance, that meant that gang rivalries were likely to break out. So the lunch break was cut from 70 minutes to 50 minutes. The start of the school day was also moved ten minutes earlier, meaning that the school day could end at 3pm without the loss of any teaching time.
Around the same time, other Sheffield schools also reviewed the hours when formal teaching took place. Many of them adopted a similar model to our own, but at least one (by starting the school day earlier) was able to finish at 2.40pm without the loss of any teaching time.
Chris
However it was decided that the lunch break was too long, because it resulted in lots of bored teenagers roaming the streets at lunchtime. Given that there were two other secondary schools within easy walking distance, that meant that gang rivalries were likely to break out. So the lunch break was cut from 70 minutes to 50 minutes. The start of the school day was also moved ten minutes earlier, meaning that the school day could end at 3pm without the loss of any teaching time.
Around the same time, other Sheffield schools also reviewed the hours when formal teaching took place. Many of them adopted a similar model to our own, but at least one (by starting the school day earlier) was able to finish at 2.40pm without the loss of any teaching time.
Chris
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