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🗓️ 14 June 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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0:00.0 | This is the Guardian. Today, inside the 12-hour school day that's aiming to give kids their childhood back. I don't know, let me make it fit, green, |
0:27.0 | green. |
0:30.0 | Hi, I'm Mohammed and I'm doing 77. |
0:34.0 | A few weeks ago, you may have heard of an ambitious experiment |
0:38.0 | being carried out by one school in London |
0:40.0 | in an apparent attempt to tackle childhood phone addiction. |
0:44.0 | The 7-7 thing is when students come in at 7 a.m. to have breakfast, |
0:49.0 | but you don't have to come in at 7. |
0:51.0 | And then after that, it's a normal school day and then we do |
0:54.0 | home at for an hour for 15 and then we do activities like sports, art, drama, clay pot |
1:00.0 | making and stuff and then we have dinner and then we can go home. |
1:04.0 | For nearly two months now, All Saints Catholic College in West London has opened its doors to |
1:08.8 | pupils for a full 12-hour school day from 7 a.m. until 7 p.m. It's now just after 7 o'clock in the |
1:16.9 | morning two weeks into the pilot scheme and along with producer Courtney I'm in a |
1:21.4 | busy dance studio where children from year 7 and 8 are eating a hot breakfast, |
1:26.2 | chatting with their friends and playing games. |
1:30.4 | This is how All Saints bold new 7 to 7 school day begins. |
1:35.0 | Children can bring phones into school, but they must remain switched off in their bags for the entire 12 hours. |
1:42.0 | Instead, pupils are encouraged to play together |
1:45.0 | and chat face to face. |
1:47.0 | She's concentrating on Jenga. |
1:49.0 | He's trying to a very serious game. |
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