英國某學校取消上午課 爲不讓學生上課睡覺

A private sixth form is set to Move lessons to start at 1.30pm every day because the school's teacher thinks his teenage pupils will study better after a morning lie in.

英國一傢俬立中學計劃將學生的上課時間定爲每天下午1:30，因爲校長認爲小學生早上睡好覺的話學習效果更好。

Instead of rising early for a 9am start, pupils at the ￡15,000-a-year Hampton Court House, in East Molesey, Surrey, will get to enjoy a lie in and work from 1.30pm until 7pm.

這就是英國薩里郡的漢普頓皇家學校，學費每年15000英鎊，那兒的學生們不用早早起牀9點去上課了。

Head teacher Guy Holloway says the move for all sixth form pupils, set to kick in from September, has been made in light of research by neuroscientists.

校長蓋伊·霍洛威稱這項計劃將會在9月實施，計劃是根據神經科學家們的研究制定的。

He predicts that not only will his students aged 16 and upwards get a quality night's sleep, but their cognition and productivity will also be improved.

他預測16歲及16歲以上的學生不但能睡個好覺，他們的認知能力和效率也會提高。

The co-educational school will have the latest start time in the UK, and will be the only one to begin lessons in the afternoon.

這所男女同校的中學將會是英國所有學校中上課時間最遲的，也是唯一一所只在下午上課的學校。

Experts say young people are biologically programmed to get up later, and that rather than this being down to laziness it is simply a shift in their body clocks.

專家稱，從生物學角度上講，青少年有晚起的自然傾向，與其說這是懶惰，說這是生物鐘的轉換更加合適。

'There are 168 hours in a week and how productive they are depends on how they choose to use those hours,' said Mr Holloway.

霍洛威校長說：“一週有168個小時，學生們的效率取決於他們如何利用這些時間。”

'At Hampton Court House we don’t think we have the answer for everybody, it’s about what works in our community.’

“在漢普頓皇家學校，我們不能制定出符合每個學生的方案，但是我們選擇的是適合青少年這個整體的方案。”

Year 10 student Gabriel Purcell-Davis will be one of the first of 30 A-level students to start at the later time.

第一批試驗新上課時間的是30個A級學生，10年級的加布裏埃爾就是其中之一。

'I want to wake up in my bed, not in my maths lesson,' said the 15-year-old.

15歲的加布裏埃爾說：“我想在自己的牀上醒來，而不是在數學課上。”