Break times at school, how many?

[nuttyredhead]

Hey,
just wondered if their was a legal number of break periods primary school children should have within a day?

I am unhappy with children having to miss break periods as a punishment!!

Hi,

I think the missing a break punishment is more of a punishment for them not to enjoy the time with their friends. A break from their school work is normally classed as one in the morning and one in the afternoon with their lunch break in between. A school break is a break from "lessons". My DS is at secondary school, they have one break on a Weds with a 30 min lunch break so they can finish at 2 50 that day.

In Secondary school they are legally entitled to a lunch break only, not sure if it is the same for Primary.

As Janx4 said a missed break is not usually spent working but more as a separation from friends. How regularly is it happening? For what reasons?

IMO it should not be a regular occurance in lower primary.

In our primary, Dcs have a 1/2 hour in the morning, and lunch time. Infants also have 15 minutes in the afternoon but not the Juniors.

It has happened a few times that DS2 missed a bit of his break if he did not do his homework properly or completely, I have no problem with that as it seems a good way to motivate him to work better. Never heard (from Ds and my other dcs) of missing break as a separation from friends though.

In our school Key stage 1 have a break in the morning, and all children have a break at lunch time but Key stage 2 have to go right through. But they all start and finish at the same times which is good.

dd has a morning break of 15 mins and a lunch break of 50 mins. There is no afternoon break and school finishes at 3pm

they have a break in the afternoon but do not finish school until 3.20.

He had to miss his break and do work. I feel there are more suitable punishments as kids need a break from work even if it jus 5- 10 mins.

I think it happens frequently with children that need punishment?

Thanks for opinions and advice

20 mins in the morning, lunchtime is longer for infants than juniors but not sure by how much, and no afternoon play; They did get a break in the afternoon up until a couple of years ago, but the teachers said that it was a PITA to have to go through the whole line-up, coats-on, outside, back-in, coats-off, loo stops, grazed-knees attended to and then try to calm them down for anything meaningful afterwards. Also it was done as a bit of an experiment to see if more teaching time=better SATs results. It did.