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Originally Posted by Jemma

My school have decided to mess about with the times as well, we have to come into school 10 mins earlier (8.30) and then we finish at different times each day...not only that but its different for every year :angry: How stupid is that? It means i can't walk home with my sister cos we'll be coming out at different times ranging from 2.50 to 3.30. What is the point??

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do you all start at the same time? and have they said what the point of finishing at diff times is? it sounds stupid to me, im surprised my old school didnt think of that lol!

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Originally Posted by Abi

Just do it! Has your school got a school council or something? We do, and each year also has a year council. I was part of my year council, and we really told the teachers where to stick it over and over again. We raised £3000 to kids in Costa Rica, and arranged for a group of people from our year to go on a trip to give it to them. We stopped 50 people going into prostitution :) . We started a "safer routes to school" campaign. We had a conference with some members of our borughs council, and they gave us £10,000 to invest in improving the area around the school (its right in the middle of these woods, with no lighting- lots of attacks). We changed the school timings, like you wanted to, so that we had a shorter lunch, but went home earlier. We also "did a Jamie" and compeltly revamped our canteen. We got rid of all the junk, and showed the canteen staff how we wanted it to be. We changed the queuing system, and improved the prices. You gotta remember, we did all this. 10 school kids. 10 15 year olds. We had no help, nor support, from our teachers, govenors or parents. We were against everyone, yet we managed to change it. No one else has managed to do anything close to the amount of stuff we did in our school, and i doubt our school will get anyone else like us again to be honest. We made the differences, and they worked. In the end, the Head Teacher congratulated us on making such a huge difference to the school, when even he doubted us.

If you wanna change them, then do it. :p

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wow you did loads well done! :) our year council could never do anything cos you had to send all your ideas to 6th formers and if they didnt want the idea they said you couldnt do it and cos most of the things didnt concern them what we wanted as they have diff rules to the rest of the school, they always said we couldnt do them :(

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Originally Posted by Abi

Thanks JMR. I was the one who had to write ht minutes too :rotfl: It took ages!

My school has stupid times, but its better then what it was. We're going to try and get it more consistant next year, but the upper school always finshes later on Monday and Tuesdays anyway, which makes it worse. For me my school times are;

Monday: 8.40- 3.35 (because of extra lessons for upper school, it's 3.00 for lower school)
Tuesday: 9.00-3.35(because of extra lessons for upper school, its 3.00 for lower school), (late start because of staff meeting)
Wednesday: 8.40-3.00#
Thursday: 8.45-3.35 (because of PSHE and Citizenship)
Friday: 8.45- 3.00

Its still really dumb as you can tell, my mum gets so confused! We changed it so that the lower school (years 7-9) finish at 3.00 everyday apart from Thursday, and start at 8.40 everyday but Tuesday. It makes it eaier for them, especially the newbies in year 7. By the upper school you get used to the dumb rules and times the school has!

I said that we changed it so we finish earlier, because of having a shorter lunch. We did finsh at 3.40 everyday, and laer on a tuesday and monday, but we hated that in winter. it was sooo dark went we left in winter time, and i live 3 miles from school (and i walk)

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i hate afterschool lessons. the school i go to to do performing arts have afterschool lessons so one day a week i have to stay at school til 5pm! :angry:

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Originally Posted by Abi

It is the most pointless subject i've ever had to do in my whole educational life i swear!

Yet another government inititive which hasn't and will never work.

Still, its good for a gossip with your mates

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omg citzenship is sooooooooooooo boring and a total waste of time! we had to do it in yr10 and we were meant to do 1 lesson a week for half the yr of citzenship and then the other half was pse, and we were supposed to have done it in yr11 too. but the teacher we had for it was a thai lady and we couldnt understand her properly and as the lesson was completely pointless we just mucked around and never did any work. she managed to teach us for a term then she left so we didnt have to do citzenship again!

my school times are now start at 8:25 (instead of 8:35) and finish at 3:05 (instead of 3:20)

i had root canal on tuesday and since then have had a slight ached but all day yesterday it was very painful,i out up with it and was awake all night,the oain has now subsided but im now dithering on whether to go to the emrgency dentist today or wait until tomorrow.i dont want it to get til late tonight and then be in agony again.has anyone else had root canal before and then it gone on to hurt after?

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Originally Posted by di marco

do you all start at the same time? and have they said what the point of finishing at diff times is? it sounds stupid to me, im surprised my old school didnt think of that lol!

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Yeah we all start at 8.30 and then finish at different times. but I have no idea why, it was fine as it was! :rolleyes:

my son starts at 8:50am and finishes at 3:20 but the teacher always lets them out late,you would have thought shed have em ready to go at 3:10 but she seems to like to keep em for as long as she can.

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Originally Posted by di marco

wow half 2 thats early!

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yep and now if you want to do after school sport clubs rather than getting home at about five it will be four so thats also better

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Originally Posted by Abi

Just do it! Has your school got a school council or something? We do, and each year also has a year council. I was part of my year council, and we really told the teachers where to stick it over and over again. We raised £3000 to kids in Costa Rica, and arranged for a group of people from our year to go on a trip to give it to them. We stopped 50 people going into prostitution :) . We started a "safer routes to school" campaign. We had a conference with some members of our borughs council, and they gave us £10,000 to invest in improving the area around the school (its right in the middle of these woods, with no lighting- lots of attacks). We changed the school timings, like you wanted to, so that we had a shorter lunch, but went home earlier. We also "did a Jamie" and compeltly revamped our canteen. We got rid of all the junk, and showed the canteen staff how we wanted it to be. We changed the queuing system, and improved the prices. You gotta remember, we did all this. 10 school kids. 10 15 year olds. We had no help, nor support, from our teachers, govenors or parents. We were against everyone, yet we managed to change it. No one else has managed to do anything close to the amount of stuff we did in our school, and i doubt our school will get anyone else like us again to be honest. We made the differences, and they worked. In the end, the Head Teacher congratulated us on making such a huge difference to the school, when even he doubted us.

If you wanna change them, then do it. :p

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i wish i could... all we seem to do is get plans rejected. and because i was in it in yr7, i can't do it again because my form tutor believes in fairness and also, no- one else has been on a regular basis, apart from me in yr7! i am part of Stockport Youth Council though...