School break times 'cut short to cram in more lessons'
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Pupils complained of fun activities being banned, not having enough time to eat their lunch, and missing their breaks due to others' poor behaviour. The researchers said this finding highlighted how"school is increasingly the main, and in some cases the only, context where young people get to socialise".Researchers analysed questionnaires completed at 993 primaries and 199 secondaries in 2017 along with separate pupil surveys at 37 schools.
The researchers found what they described as a"virtual elimination" of afternoon breaks, with only 15% of infant pupils and just over half of juniors having one. Nearly 60% of schools also withheld breaks from children when they or their classmates had been poorly behaved or needed to complete work.Head teachers' leader Geoff Barton said there was enormous value in unstructured free time for children to socialise and let off steam but schools had to balance this consideration against all the other demands expected of them.
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