Thousands of teenagers are to get an extra hour in bed in a trial to see whether later school start times can boost GCSE results.
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He also highlighted the results of a small trial at Monkseaton High School in North Tyneside where school start times were shifted from 08:50 to 10:00. This led to an increase in the percentage of pupils getting five good GCSEs from about 34% to about 50%.
[url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-29461685[/url]
I am okay with this.
i wonder when will they get back home
[QUOTE=EddieLTU;46193000]i wonder when will they get back home[/QUOTE]
An hour later?
Sounds shitty, in my opinion. Here, school starts at 8:30, so I would be free a hour and a half earlier. But, I'm an early bird, so can't say that for everybody. Even on weekends I still wake up at 5 and learn whatever I'm learning in the early hours. If I accidentally wake up at 7 or later, I feel super tired all day.
Wait. It's 8:50am now? When I used to go to school it was 7am. When did that change?
Part of me thinks that teenagers will just start going to bed an hour later, but I'm interested to see how this turns out.
[QUOTE=Jamie1992GSC;46193019]Wait. It's 8:30am now? When I used to go to school it was 7am. When did that change?[/QUOTE]
It's different from school to school. Schools have the freedom of choosing their start / finish hours and length of break times.
id kill for my school to start at even 8:50, i have my first class at 7:45 so i wake up at 6:30AM and am at school around 7:30
10am is overkill
don't get what the whinging is about - it's not hard to get into a cycle of waking up early
Seems stupid. Most entry level jobs will be 9-5. Better to prepare people at a younger age for it. I know it sucks to get up early, but it helps in the long run.
with 10 am, children can stay up til midnight, and still get their 8 hours of sleep.
[QUOTE=codenamecueball;46193074]don't get what the whinging is about - it's not hard to get into a cycle of waking up early[/QUOTE]
No one is whinging though, they are simply running a test to see whether a 10 AM start boosts GCSE scores or not. How else will you prove or disprove this?
Id hate that.
Now at 21 when I look back I cant believe how good my school times were and how much time I had to do other stuff afterwards. In at 8:10, out at 2:10. Still got the entire evening to do stuff.
Wish I had been more productive than just playing Runescape for 5 years lol
[QUOTE=Duskin;46193084]Seems stupid. Most entry level jobs will be 9-5. Better to prepare people at a younger age for it. I know it sucks to get up early, but it helps in the long run.[/QUOTE]
Yeah and you don't even have to wake up for classes if/when you go to uni. I hardly believe the reason for the 8.50 start is to get kids used to an entry level job.
Make it army times, 6AM every morning.
With added drill sergeant who bangs on a pot to wake you up.
So is it a constant time around there? I know it was in Germany, while here when I went to school it all dependent on how things worked out. Sometimes it was 8:00 and sometimes 11:45.
Latest it would end was always 15, however. There were days where you'd sit in school from 8 to 15, though I guess this isn't unique?
[QUOTE=codenamecueball;46193074]don't get what the whinging is about - it's not hard to get into a cycle of waking up early[/QUOTE]
Isn't it theorized that teenagers have screwed up body clocks as they go through puberty? I remember hearing that was one of the reasons behind starting school later.
[QUOTE=proch;46193246]So is it a constant time around there? I know it was in Germany, while here when I went to school it all dependent on how things worked out. Sometimes it was 8:00 and sometimes 11:45.
Latest it would end was always 15, however. There were days where you'd sit in school from 8 to 15, though I guess this isn't unique?[/QUOTE]
Most schools start around 9 and finish around 3, having 5 hours of lessons and 1 hour of break. College sounds more like what you're talking about, where you just go in whenever your lesson is.
i'm a teenager, i just began to get myself into the cycle of not sitting up until 3am watching shit telly and eating shit food and decided to wake up 7:30am every day and sleep before midnight every night, sometimes i fuck it up, sometimes i get it perfectly right but there's no greater feeling than being ready to face the day before 9am and actually getting shit done.
[editline]9th October 2014[/editline]
[QUOTE=Fetret;46193231]No one is whinging though, they are simply running a test to see whether a 10 AM start boosts GCSE scores or not. How else will you prove or disprove this?[/QUOTE]
oh yeah course, i just don't see why so many teenagers cry over being made to wake up at 8am
[QUOTE=Fetret;46193241]Yeah and you don't even have to wake up for classes if/when you go to uni. I hardly believe the reason for the 8.50 start is to get kids used to an entry level job.[/QUOTE]
I'm In uni now, and most days I'm In 9-5. The people that sleep In all day and don't do shit are the people that get chucked out after first year.
This is just to see if starting school later helps schoolchildren as a whole learn more efficiently
No one cares if you can wake up before the birds
When I was in high school, it started at 8:30. I woke up at 5 AM every morning, and usually arrived at 8 on the dot, but sometimes I'd arrive at 6 AM for team related things, and on a couple occasions in my Freshman and Sophmore years I actually arrived at 5 AM because of when my father had to be at work
Then school let out at 3:30, unless I had to stay. Sometimes I wouldn't get home until after 8 PM. If school started at 10 AM, it would be great for everyone that didn't have to stay after for whatever reason
[QUOTE=Jund;46193338]This is just to see if starting school later helps schoolchildren as a whole learn more efficiently
No one cares if you can wake up before the birds[/QUOTE]
finally
I remember I would have to wake up at 5:00 AM to get ready for school, leave at 6-ish and get there around 7.
Thankfully I don't have to deal with that shit in college.
I've been getting up at 6:30 for 5 years and feel like shit every morning no matter how many hours sleep i get. Even getting up an hour later at 7:30 on a weekend makes a huge difference to how i feel
[QUOTE=Duskin;46193324]I'm In uni now, and most days I'm In 9-5. The people that sleep In all day and don't do shit are the people that get chucked out after first year.[/QUOTE]
My age is higher than my attendance percentage and I got a BSc with distinction last year. If you're enthusiastic about the subject you won't necessarily fail because you don't show up (except where universities kick people out for poor attendance)
[QUOTE=Fetret;46193241]Yeah and you don't even have to wake up for classes if/when you go to uni. I hardly believe the reason for the 8.50 start is to get kids used to an entry level job.[/QUOTE]
Depends on your course, you'd botch some courses horribly if you even routinely messed a day a week due to the quantity of info.
[QUOTE=Flapadar;46193395]My age is higher than my attendance percentage and I got a BSc with distinction last year. If you're enthusiastic about the subject you won't necessarily fail because you don't show up (except where universities kick people out for poor attendance)[/QUOTE]
Eh, suppose it really is course dependant. Anything medical you'd shoot yourself in the arse.
[QUOTE=Duskin;46193324]I'm In uni now, and most days I'm In 9-5. The people that sleep In all day and don't do shit are the people that get chucked out after first year.[/QUOTE]
Not really, it all depends on the course, the material and how interested you are and how much independent study you are willing to do. Universities give you the tools and leave you to make up your own plan.
Shit, my high school starts at 7:20
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