{"id":14831,"date":"2024-06-14T09:38:11","date_gmt":"2024-06-14T07:38:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/14\/jenga-dodgeball-and-no-phones-a-london-schools-radical-12-hour-day\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T09:38:11","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T07:38:11","slug":"jenga-dodgeball-and-no-phones-a-london-schools-radical-12-hour-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/14\/jenga-dodgeball-and-no-phones-a-london-schools-radical-12-hour-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Jenga, dodgeball and no phones: a London school\u2019s radical 12-hour day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> All Saints Catholic College aiming to \u2018give children their childhood back\u2019 by breaking their screen addictions <\/p>\n<p>Two months ago a radical experiment in one London state school hit the headlines. All Saints Catholic College <a href=\"https:\/\/www.standard.co.uk\/news\/london\/london-headteacher-12-hour-school-day-smartphones-all-saints-catholic-college-b1152848.html#:~:text=A%20west%20London%20school%20headteacher,scheme%20which%20started%20this%20week.\">announced it was piloting a 12-hour school day<\/a> in what was reported as a bold attempt to break students\u2019 phone addictions.<\/p>\n<p>From 7am to 7pm on Monday to Thursday the youngest pupils, in years 7 and 8, could stay in school. For \u00a310 a week, they would be served a cooked breakfast and \u201cfamily\u201d dinner, and offered activities from drama to ceramics and sports. The only catch: their phones had to remain in their bags, switched off, for the entire 12 hours. No peeking.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/education\/article\/2024\/jun\/14\/jenga-before-lessons-dodgeball-after-verdict-12-hour-school-day\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f8b79ef2527c74a0ca53c12457f9e41b4aaa47aa\/0_274_8192_4915\/master\/8192.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=b6b5f10876367a263989f783ec571499\" title=\"Jenga, dodgeball and no phones: a London school\u2019s radical 12-hour day\" \/>All Saints Catholic College aiming to \u2018give children their childhood back\u2019 by breaking their screen addictions<br \/>\nTwo months ago a radical experiment in one London state school hit the headlines. All Saints Catholic College announced it was piloting a 12-hour school day in what was reported as a bold attempt to break students\u2019 phone addictions.<br \/>\nFrom 7am to 7pm on Monday to Thursday the youngest pupils, in years 7 and 8, could stay in school. For \u00a310 a week, they would be served a cooked breakfast and \u201cfamily\u201d dinner, and offered activities from drama to ceramics and sports. The only catch: their phones had to remain in their bags, switched off, for the entire 12 hours. No peeking. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All Saints Catholic College aiming to \u2018give children their childhood back\u2019 by breaking their screen addictions Two months ago a radical experiment in one London state school hit the headlines. All Saints Catholic College announced it was piloting a 12-hour school day in what was reported as a bold attempt to break students\u2019 phone addictions. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/06\/14\/jenga-dodgeball-and-no-phones-a-london-schools-radical-12-hour-day\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Jenga, dodgeball and no phones: a London school\u2019s radical 12-hour day<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14831"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}