Henry White Tells Us about His School

I go to school in Greentown, a small town near London, where I live.

School begins at nine o’clock in the morning. We have four lessons in the morning. Each lesson lasts forty minutes. After the second lesson we have a fifteen-minute break. After the fourth lesson we have a one-and-a-half-hour break for dinner. Pupils who do not live far from school go home for their dinner. But some parents want their children to have dinner at school. These children have dinner in the school dining-room.

We come back to school after the dinner break at half past one. In the afternoon we have three lessons, with a ten-minute break after the second lesson. During the breaks we play or walk in the school playground. School ends at ten minutes past four. Some pupils stay at school after lessons for clubs: music, drawing, and others. One afternoon a week is for sports only. We go to a park or a playground for sports. On Saturday morning we have no school.

All new schools in England are mixed. They are for boys and girls. But there are some schools for boys only and some for girls only. All the new schools have good laboratories for physics, chemistry, and biology. They have a gymnasium for physical training too.

We also learn English, literature, history, geography, mathematics, French or German, music, and drawing.