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All-day school Hello dear readers and friends! I am a student of the ZHDK, the Zurich High School of Arts in Switzerland. I am studyingArt Education. We are currently working on a school project, togheter with local schools we analize and plan projects for the spare time children have at school, hours break, lunchtime, before and after school. If you were at an all-day school, if you are at an all-day school or if you have kids at an all-day school I’d be very happy if you had a few minutes to answer these questions. Please feel free to fill out this form basing on your memories, on what your children say or on what you heard (please state if you are quoting). Feel free to add things. You dont have to answer questions which you dont want to or do not know. Just skip them. And as a tiny side note, my biggest point of interest of course is the bold written question, the arty one :) You can also email me your reply, akeyla@gmx.ch The answers of these survey will be used for analizing and creating projects. It remains in our class. Should something be quoted directly I will contact you (either via email or here, in this very post with its replies.) Anonymus is on, feel free to use it. Spammers will be fried alive. Definition of all day school: you stay at school from roughly 8 am to 5pm. “At school” defines the building, the school grounds. Name and location of your school: School has been an all-day school since: Your age and your class(es): Date: - How did your daily routine look at school? How much free time, hour breaks, did you have at school? - What did you do at school when you weren’t in class? - Did the school offer activities in hour breaks/over lunch/before or after school? - Were any of these offered activities of an artistic nature? - Were there rooms and places where you could spend your time during hour breaks? - Do you have memories of these hour breaks/leisure time at school? (positive or negative ones) - What would you have liked to do as a child during these breaks/leisure times? (if you are a child: what would you like to do? What are your wishes?) - What would you, as a parent, like that your kids would do during breaks/leisure times at school? Are there things you approve or things you would like to have changed? - How are/were finances handled at your all-day school? - Is there something you would like to add in relation with all-day school? To give you an idea I filled out a sample reply just beneath this post (this is all made up!): Name and location of your school: Grandeecole, France
School has been an all-day school since: 1970’s
Your age and your class(es): 6-16 years, primary and high school
Date: 1976-1982
- How did your daily routine look at school? How much free time, hour breaks, did you have at school?
We had school from 9 am to 11am, lunch break, school from 1 pm to 3pm. This would change depending on day/class/age. Roughly 3 hours free time a day.
- What did you do at school when you weren’t in class?
Homework, read in the library. When I was younger of course fooling around with the other kids. At high school I was part of a basketball team.
- Did the school offer activities in hour breaks/over lunch/before or after school?
Occasionally. Sometimes over christmas season, or during special celebration dates. We also had special activities like poetry week or such.
- Were any of these offered activities of an artistic nature?
Themed celebrations like Christmas/Spring/Halloween had special “artistic offers” where we could do costumes, christmas gift and the stuff.
- Were there rooms and places where you could spend your time during hour breaks?
When the weather was fine there were many places outside, otherwise there was the library, the halls. Some classes, so I heard, had special rooms where they could work, but mostly those were the “older students”
- Do you have memories of these hour breaks/leisure time at school? (positive or negative ones)
Negative: poetry week. It was totally forced upon us and the teacher who organized it had exact ideas of how our poems had to look and sound.
Positive: my favourit would always be the halloween one. We had a teacher who brought the cooolest ideas for mask stuff and costumes. And each year we’d have a blast competing for the cooles and, freakiest costume. We’d cramp in his room each day after school to finnish our masks.
- What would you have liked to do as a child during these breaks/leisure times? (if you are a child: what would you like to do? What are your wishes?)
My son keeps saying that he misses free access to materials. Everything is patronized and twice questioned. And he complains that the only things permitted in school durink leisure time was pencils and paper. Teachers feared the kids would paint the walls.
- What would you, as a parent, like that your kids would do during breaks/leisure times at school? Are there things you approve or things you would like to have changed?
I would like my son to have more choices. Everything seems onesided. Either materials are to expensive or I feel that school does not want to have an extra teacher to surveil the kids.
- How are/were finances handled at your all-day school?
As a kid I was at a medium day school. It had the main elements only, some reasonable food, a teacher to watch us during homework and said activities here and there. I heard things are better there now, but fees have went up drastically and many locals cant afford it. My sons school has an extra fee for the activities, not all are affordable for us.
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