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There is currently a consultation to reduce the school week to 4.5days here. Reading between the lines this is a cost reduction...

Did you see my other post where I said that our local secondary schools operate with a condensed week? The unions agreed. They don’t...

As an example: 45min lunch break instead of an hour = 1 hr a week No afternoon break time = 80 mins a week. Classes start 15mins...

So they can. That's exactly what an apprenticeship is. You learn and get qualifications whilst working and being paid. And you can do...

Teaching functional maths and English to 16 olds who have, for whatever reason, failed it at GCSE seems like a pretty sensible thing to...

Kids should have school 6 days a week.

The kids have a statutory minimum number of hours per week that they have to be taught. If the head and governors adjust the length of...

So it's about a perceived, but as yet non-existent "hypocrisy" which doesn't and possibly never will come into being VERSUS A real and...

Its a suggestion to avoid kids losing taught time. Together with pushing non-contact time to Friday afternoons. If it were already in...

Our secondary schools do it, and it’s condensed days for the kids, not half a day less teaching. Our primary schools don’t do it, but...

Well, we should be drinking proper British beer like Stella, not this foreign craft beer muck.

It's had a huge impact on my local Microbrewery. Prior to Brexit, they had regular customers in Italy and Denmark (amongst others). In...

Santa sent me the ‘Modern Homebrewer’. The recipes have some really good detail in them. The Oakham Green Devil is on my brew list. I...

I’ve not done many. Summer Lightning from the Graham Wheeler book came out well, and I did the Guinness one too when I was fairly new to...

This is it. The latest Instagram trend (probably a Tik Tok trend from 3 months ago, but I’m an elder millennial so it’s insta for me)...