http://blogs.independent.co.uk| Blogs from the Independent newspaper - news, views and features from the world's most free-thinking newspaper| Fri, 24 May 2013 19:41:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2| en hourly 1 http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/02/time-to-cancel-the-end-of-term/ http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/02/time-to-cancel-the-end-of-term/#comments Mon, 02 Jul 2012 09:26:06 +0000 Susan Elkin http://blogs.independent.co.uk/?p=25850 British school children are in school for just a few hours five days a week for around 38/40 weeks a year. It really doesn’t add up to very much overall so why do we allow so much of that precious time to be wasted?]]> http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/07/02/time-to-cancel-the-end-of-term/feed/ 45