[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: British schools

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  From: Fairy Queen 
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  Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2003 5:33 PM
  Subject: [HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: British schools

   
  This is correct at present, and IMHO, is the way it should stay, but 
  there are plans to switch the whole system from three terms and a 
  long summer holiday to six terms, with an extra holiday in the autumn 
  but less time off in summer.

  But the big selling point in its favour is that terms won't be as long. I considered going into teaching and the thing I noticed when I helped out somewhere for a term to gain experience is that there seems to be a whole process which winds up to the end of a term, schemes of work to be completed, reports to be written, etc.  Smaller chunks of term might make things less fraught. 

  Six terms only breaks down into the six halves of the old trimester system after all. 

  Michelle


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