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The school day

From the first list to the last note

The day has the same eight blocks every time. Only the project and the elective change, so students always know what comes next.

  1. 01
    8:15

    Step 1: Arrival and the day's list

    Students hang up their coats, open the planner and write the day's list on the homeroom board: what is due, what is new, who needs a word with a teacher.

  2. 02
    8:30

    Step 2: Humanities

    A long block for reading, writing and discussion. Students read together, write in a notebook and talk about what they read, in their grade's room.

  3. 03
    10:00

    Step 3: Math

    One lesson, then work at the table with the teacher moving between students. Anyone can ask for a second explanation at the board.

  4. 04
    11:15

    Step 4: Planning time

    Forty-five minutes in the middle of the day to look at the list, start homework and ask a teacher the question that came up in the morning.

  5. 05
    12:00

    Step 5: Lunch and open room

    Families send lunch. We eat together in the commons, and the open room stays quiet for anyone who wants a break first.

  6. 06
    12:45

    Step 6: A project

    Science on Monday and Wednesday, a history seminar on Tuesday and Thursday, and on Friday a project that gathers up the week.

  7. 07
    2:15

    Step 7: An elective

    Art, music or woodworking in the studio, depending on the day. Students move at their own pace and finish what they began.

  8. 08
    3:00

    Step 8: A note home, then dismissal

    Each student writes two lines for home about the day. A teacher reads the note, and families wait at the front door.

Projects

Hands on, with a teacher at the table

The afternoon project is the longest block after lunch. Students work in pairs on a bench or around a table, and the teacher moves between them.

On Friday the group sets up a table of what it made that week, and the whole floor walks around it.

  • Science at the lab bench on Monday and Wednesday

  • A history seminar around one table on Tuesday and Thursday

  • A Friday table of the week's work

Students seen from behind setting up a table with plain posters turned face down, a teacher beside them

Around the floor

Benches, chairs and tables

A microscope slide, a row of recorders, a woodworking bench.

Two pairs of hands adjusting a microscope slide on a lab bench
Adjusting a microscope slide
Sample
Students seen from behind playing recorders in a row of chairs in a music room, a teacher at the side
Recorders in the music room
Sample
Students seen from behind at a woodworking bench in a bright studio, a teacher at the edge of the room
Woodworking in the studio
Sample

Sample photos.

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