School finishes at 5pm.

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Does any have experience of this?

A secondary school we are looking at finishes at 5pm 4 days a week.

Does your DC cope ok with that?

@Nat6999

My nieces school doesn't finish until 5.00pm normally, it's a fairly new secondary school, super strict, the ethos is everything is done first time, no questions asked. Parents are told if you don't like how we work, don't send your children here. Detentions are given for everything from not having the right equipment to not paying attention or not producing the quality of work they expect. There isn't any homework, everything is done in school under supervision.

Wow what school is that

It's Mercia in Sheffield

I’d rather than than have to ferry them about to after school club activities. Makes life a lot easier. And no having to nag to do homework.

@Carycy

I’d rather than than have to ferry them about to after school club activities. Makes life a lot easier. And no having to nag to do homework.

But what after school activities? Because the school will decide what they do. Fair enough if you don’t mind and just want them to do something, anything, but it your child is musical or plays a particular sport or does dance, or Cadets, then this more or less means they can’t.

And will the school have specialist teachers for these activities? I doubt it ... more likely Miss Jones in the English department will be stuck in charge of reading and Mr Newman over in Geography will have to lead the environment club. And they will have absolutely no choice in what they do.

another thing to think of.

My kids would love the idea of no homework but a later finish. But one of mine would seriously hate enforced enrichment.

The only thing he has ever done after school is football. He needs head space, and he wouldn't have enjoyed it.

dd1 on the other hand, would have loved it.

DS has days like this but is at Private school. He also gets homework on top, but copes and had clubs outside of school (although not at the moment due to COVID). His school would allow him to leave early and miss the school enrichment if he was doing scouts etc, as that was another sort of enrichment.

Their extra curricular clubs include sports, board games, music, Warhammer, DofE. They have a choice.

What might concern me is whether they would be encouraged to develop independent study and organisational skills if all the homework is done under supervision. University would be a big shock

That's a big part of my concern to be honest. I don't want DS to be babied and have all decisions made for him and then be completely unprepared for the real world.

@Nat6999

My nieces school doesn't finish until 5.00pm normally, it's a fairly new secondary school, super strict, the ethos is everything is done first time, no questions asked. Parents are told if you don't like how we work, don't send your children here. Detentions are given for everything from not having the right equipment to not paying attention or not producing the quality of work they expect. There isn't any homework, everything is done in school under supervision.

Michaela??

It's common at independent schools, supervised prep won't be all of it though, they give a lot of homework!

A few schools are edging towards the Michaela way. I worked in one with enforced topics of conversation over a hot lunch

I just read about Michaela .