>>>What is going wrong with secondary schools that this is deemed necessary?
Teachers are giving up part of their holidays, unpaid, to help their pupils - that's what's happening! (I used to get moaned at, rather than thanked, by many parents when I organised extra maths lessons after school as they saw it as 'putting their children in detention for finding maths hard'. Yet some of those same parents would happily pay for private tuition!)
Where will I be on Monday? Weather permitting, probably here:
http://heartofsuffolk.co.uk/event/mendlesham-street-fayre/
(That's even though I know that the information about 'free entry' given there is wrong. Unless you actually live along the main street in Mendlesham, it costs several pounds just to walk along it when the street fair is on!)