Secondary school closing-time on Fridays.

I finished school in 2011 and I went to college I met people from city schools and they got a half day on Wednesday.

Later on in 2011 my old secondary school got a new principal and they started up the half days on Friday.

It's going on since a long before Covid.

From my understanding at the time they cut class time a little.(This may have been due to government cut backs.) And the cut time off their lunch breaks.

My cynical thoughts are that once teachers got used to finishing up early on Fridays, they didn't want to give it up again.

I finished school in the 90’s and it was 9-4 Mon, Tues, Thurs and Fri with an hour lunch from 1-2. Half day Wed at 1. Fri for me seem to end with a double class of practical like art, woodwork or tech drawing over the years. 9 classes and 6 classes a day on the half day

A lot of schools have training on Fridays after school.

I haven’t heard of any matchs played after school though.

Our day was 8.50 - 3.30 with 35 minutes for lunch.

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Warned for this .

One of the first and it being a trial - dunno about that. I started secondary in the 80s and always had a half day Wednesday - and it wasn't a new thing when I started either

I went to secondary school in the 90s and I remember at least one half-day baked into the timetable. It was usually a Friday but I think some years it could float over to Wednesday. What I also remember was a fairly long lunch break of about 45 mins. I was a 10 min walk from home, so I’d go home for the break which devided up the day nicely.

On the half-day you’d often have a situation of walking back to the school for just an hour, and then leaving again.

Varied from place to place I guess. This was Cork btw.

Was there any need to answer my post with such vitriol? I hope your people skills are better in real life.

I wonder did it vary between the types of schools? I went to a vocational school and our day was 9am to 1pm, then 2pm to 4pm. Morning break was 15 minutes and they did that by knocking 5 minutes off the first 3 classes of the day. We'd get let off at 3:20 the odd time but that sticks in my head because it was a rare treat.

In my local town the schools got out about forty minutes early on the first Wednesday of each month.

However when they did introduce the half day all school agreed on it Convent, CBS and Vocational agreed on the half day because of the buses.