Sign up to the M.E.N.'s Manchester Family newsletter for all the latest from school closures to ways to entertain the kids An extended school day from 8am to 6pm is being eyed up by the government as part of its Covid recovery plan, reports suggest.
Ministers are understood to be weighing up two dramatically different approaches for pupils, the Times Educational Supplement reported this weekend.
The TES says it has been told that ministers are considering whether they should opt to pay for a compulsory half hour extension with an academic focus or fund a longer 8am to 6pm school day that would be voluntary.
The latter option would most likely involve some extra-curricular activities rather than just more academic lessons. Plans are being