Study leave for Year 11 has been banned

[BellaBear]

SMT have just announced that study leave for GCSE year has been banned (by the government) and as such, there is no point having any for mocks in two weeks time.

On a personal note [noooooooo I am a year 11 tutir and was looking forward to two weeks of no registrations!)

I understand the reasons are exam results improving in schools where this has been trialled. I think that it has added to our workload and I'll bet nothing gets taken away!

Does anyone work in a school that doesn't have study leave? How do you manage lessons after the exams have occurred? Do you still teach planned lessons or do lessons become general revision sessions?

Roisin - that's exactly what they are not allowing us to do anymore. Lessons will have to be put on.

I don't agree with that then BB.
Our main mock week is just one week. So most students have two exams every day, between 1 and 2 hrs long each. They're not going to be fit for lessons for the rest of the day.

For the time in between exams they really need to de-stress and relax a bit: I don't think it's desirable to squeeze cramming and revision into every minute of the day.

When I did my O levels (many many moons ago), I went on 20-50 mile cycle rides every day to de-stress and relax. And I ended up with As in all but one subject! The cycling and map-reading obviously didn't help my Geography

A very good point Roisin