Structure Of The School Day
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There are five teaching periods (of 40 minutes each) every morning, including Saturdays, and two teaching periods in the afternoons of Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. There are thus 36 periods in a week. However, the teaching timetable is based not on a six-day week, but on a ten-day cycle of 60 periods: so the allocations of curricular time set out below are expressed in periods per cycle. The ten-day cycle has significance only for the arrangement of the teaching programme, and does not affect parents in any way: all other school activities follow the calendar week.
The school day starts with a whole-school Chapel service or assembly at 8.35 each morning except Monday and Wednesday: on Wednesday mornings there are separate assemblies for the Third, Fourth, and Fifth Forms.
