Tuesday, September 26, 2006

No need to turn up at 24-hour school

A school with one of the country's worst truancy records is to offer 24-hour teaching, allowing pupils to choose when - or indeed whether - they attend.

Classrooms at Bridgemary Community Sports College, Gosport, Hants, will be open from 7am until 10pm and the 1,000-pupil comprehensive will provide online teaching throughout the night.

Cheryl Heron, the head teacher, said her proposals, approved by Alan Johnson, the Education Secretary, challenged conventional thinking on how schools should run.

The new timetable, which begins next September, will be monitored for three years by a unit at the Department for Education and, if successful a report will be submitted to the Government on its implications for other schools.

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