Benefits of Longer Lessons

Lessons are longer than they were at Saint Paul's School. Seventy or seventy-five minute lessons have many distinct benefits for students:

• They have greater time to consolidate what they have learnt;
• They can participate in a wider range of activities such as project work and practical activities;
• Their teachers can deploy a wider variety of teaching styles in a longer period, which can ensure that all students are taught more effectively;
• Better learning experiences lead to better performances and achievement;

There are organisational and behavioural benefits to the longer lessons:

• Less movement around the school ensures a calmer atmosphere;
• Less crowded corridors are tidier and cleaner;
• Longer lessons encourage teachers to extend and broaden their teaching approaches;
• Students need to bring fewer books to school and have less baggage to carry when there are fewer lessons;
• Poor student behaviour is minimised when the number of lesson changes is reduced.

School opens at 7 am and from this point onwards until 8.15 am students have the opportunity to complete unfinished work; print off assignments they have completed at home or they can just sit down and catch up with the events of last evening with their friends.