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Satellite TV Plan to Stop Pupils Leaving School
A secondary school is planning to show satellite TV on plasma screens in a bid to stop pupils leaving at lunchtime, it emerged today.
The principal of Hartcliffe Engineering Community College, Bristol, hopes pupils will stay on site if they can watch music and sports channels on Sky.
The screens would also show news channels at the school?s breakfast club, to keep children up to date with current affairs.
Principal Malcolm Brown said the Sky plan was to give the children a ?positive experience? during the lunch break.
He said the school, which has 880 pupils aged 11-16, was planning to move to a day with shorter lunch breaks.
Mr Brown said: ?A reduced lunch time means we will encourage pupils to stay with us, where they will be properly supervised and safe.
?In addition, we will be able to promote healthy food and restrict opportunities for pupils to take advantage of the commercial provision elsewhere.
?Clearly, if youngsters only have 30-35 minutes to eat their lunch we want to make sure it is a positive experience.?
The shorter lunch break and an earlier finish to the day would give more opportunity for after-school activities, Mr Brown said.
The six plasma screens would be paid for by an anonymous donor, Mr Brown said.
Pupils from the school council would decide what was shown on the screens during the lunch break, and Mr Brown said he expected music and sport channels to be popular.
Less than 25% of pupils attained five GCSEs at grades A*-C last year, and the school?s most recent Ofsted report said it provided ?acceptable education? but was ?adversely affected by poor levels of attendance?.
Mr Brown said he hoped installing the satellite TV, with shortening the formal school day and encouraging pupils to stay on after school for extended study sessions, would help improve results.
He said: ?We hope it will promote good attendance and maintain positive attitudes to learning.?
If pupils stayed in school at lunch times, they would be in class on time for afternoon sessions, he added.
Mr Brown said: ?We don?t have too large a problem with people going off site, but it is enough to give us cause for concern.
?If they arrive late, they disrupt their learning and make it difficult for the teacher, who has to bring these people up to speed with the work they have missed.?
The school would subscribe to the full Sky package, including educational channels such as the Discovery Channel and the History Channel.
Mr Brown said: ?This will be an opportunity for an extra learning resource.
?We are an engineering specialist school which does suggest we should use some cutting edge technology.?
There will be a consultation evening for parents and governors at the school to discuss the plan, on May 12.
Bristol City Council have given their backing to the scheme and hope it will improve standards at the school.
Council spokeswoman Tamsin May said: ?We support the school in its innovative approach to tackle the issue of children leaving the school premises and hope, if implemented, that it will improve attendance and have a positive impact on educational standards within the school.
?The school is consulting on proposals which would also include shortening lunch breaks and we would encourage parents and carers to participate in this consultation process.?
Nina Franklin, of the National Union of Teachers, said the Sky idea was ?interesting? but added she was concerned about shortening the lunch breaks.
She said: ?It is quite clear under teachers? pay and conditions there should be a reasonable time for lunch and we think it should be an hour.
?If our members at individual schools say they are OK with a local agreement then we would support them, but half an hour seems very short.
?I?ve never heard of satellite televisions at lunchtime before ? it?s a new one for Bristol. It is an interesting idea. Schools have got to be innovative.?
