Timetable changes

We had a look at the new timetable proposal for our school this week, we are moving from 6 period days 5 day a week to a more manageable 24 period week, 4 days a week with 5 period and 1 day with 4 periods. 1 hour for each period.

Now our department has always been one of those departments who look at our students and go how can we help them, we give them some skills to work a computer other than for internet and games. We give them the tools to be able to create assessments, design posters, put artwork online and in print, create a presentation, cybersafety, and so some simple maths and graph the results.

What they are looking at is giving us 3 periods a week for one term, or 3 periods a week for a half year. Now this might sound a lot, but we only get 2 x 50 minutes periods with them now. Dropping this down to a shorter timeframe might be benifitial to them, but having them for a whole year you could get to know them to be able to do the reports for them.

Now for some maths

What we have now
Year 9, 2 x 50 minute periods a week * 40 periods a year = 4000 minutes = 66.667 hours

Proposed
Year 9 3 x 60 minutes periods a week * 10 weeks for the term = 1800 minutes = 30 hours
Year 9 3 x 60 minutes periods a week * 20 weeks for half year = 3600 minutes = 60 hours

There is the maths.