[etni] Fw: changing school hours in the UK
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- Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:18:11 +0200
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From: Adele Raemer and Laurie Levy raemer@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: changing school hours in the UK
Just heard about this on SKY news. Note who the additional hours would be
covered by!
~Adele
NEW HOURS FOR SCHOOLS
Education Secretary Ruth Kelly is unveiling a £680m plan that could see
schools open from 8am to 6pm.
The proposals are designed to help working parents, and children will be
able to turn up early for breakfast clubs and stay late to play sport.
The clubs will be supervised by volunteers or organised by private
companies - teachers will not have to take part, officials said.
But teaching unions have expressed concerns over funding.
The National Union of Teachers said the promise of £680m by 2008 "sounds
like new money but across 23,000 schools, it will be spread very thinly".
Under the `extended schools' programme, primary and secondary schools in
England will offer activities for under-14s, which might include language
clubs, indoor rock-climbing, music, drama and arts.
The additional hours have been dubbed "Kelly hours" - just as teacher
training days are called "Baker days" after Tory former minister Lord Baker.
The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers said
teachers had broadly welcomed the scheme.
And Jack Hatch, a primary school head in Bolton, Greater Manchester, said
his breakfast and after-school club had produced a "wonderful atmosphere".
The school charges £3 for the breakfast club and £5 for the after-school
club, and he said he believed parents would almost certainly be charged
under the new scheme.
The Department for Education and Skills said charging was likely to be
decided at local level.
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-13369765,00.html
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