official classes scheduled over four and a half days – with the free afternoon then being used for structured extra-curricular activities ranging from employability programmes to music and sport.
Education officials emphasise that the new hours are reconfigured rather than decreased and that “there will not be any reduction in face-to-face teaching time with pupils in key curricular subjects taught, and no change to the offer of national qualifications”.The Lanarkshire Live app is available to download now.
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