SCHOOL HOURS IN ENGLAND.

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LIII, Issue 12, 12 February 1932, Page 4

SCHOOL HOURS IN ENGLAND.

"The alteration of the afternoon school hours in practically all of the public elementary schools in the London County Council area is likely to be followed in other areas, and especially in the North of England," the Times Educational Supplement stated recently. "There is. no loss of school time. The morning session ends as usual at noon, but instead of meeting again at 2 p.m. the children will meet at 1.30, and the afternoon session will close at four o'clock instead of 4.30, and in the case of infants the session will close at 3.30 instead of four. . . . The change that the London County Council introduc[ed into their elementary schools from ! December 1 is a step in the direction of giving more sunlight for every pupil. It has other advantages. The infants, 20 per cent, of whom on entering school have defects due to careless treatment in the pre-school age, can get home in daylight even on the darkest days. The restriction of the midday break is all to the good. Two hours are an unnecessarily long interval, and in towns part of it is

used by the children for dangerous playing in the streets. An interval of an hour and a half is quite sufficient, and the Central Consultative Committee of Headmasters and Headmistresses are in favour of the change."