alchemy / Alla's question / Hogwarts class

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 185966

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Catlady (Rita Prince Winston)"
<catlady at ...> wrote:
>
> --- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Geoff Bannister"
> <gbannister10@> wrote:
> >
> > Speaking from my experience, permit me to disagree 
> > with you. In UK school terminology, a double lesson 
> > is two periods running concurrently. 
> 
> Yes, but not everything in the Potterverse is the same as in the UK.

Geoff:
True, but I suspect that JKR would tend to base Hogwarts 
on what she knew was the regular practice in UK schools.

Catlady:
> By the way, how long is the 'passing period' between class periods,
> and is one of the eight 40 minute periods the lunch period?

Geoff:
There are slight variations. For many years I worked with
a pattern which followed the structure:  periods 1/2, 
morning break, periods 3/4, lunch, periods 5-8. Break was 
15-20 minutes, lunch 1 hour-1 hour 15 minutes. There was 
no break between periods 5-8 because games we taken by a 
full year always in the afternoon.

We did use a pattern at one time of: periods 1/2, break, 
periods 3-5, lunch, periods 6-8. This gave us quite a late 
lunch but a shorter afternoon which seemed to help with 
pupil concentration and behaviour.