Max has a similar timetable for English, Cyril for Mathematics, Roger for Geography, my wife for history. The juniors usually stay with their own teacher most of the morning, but they also go to chemistry or the art-room. There is, of course, no compulsion to attend lessons, but if Jimmy comes to English on Monday, and does not make an appearance again until the Friday of the following week, the others quite rightly object that he is keeping the work back, and they may throw him out. Lessons go on until one, but the infants and juniors lunch at 12.30. The school has to be fed in three relays, and the staff and seniors sit down to lunch at 1.45.
Afternoons are completely free for everyone.
What they all do in the afternoon I do not know. I garden, and seldom see youngsters about. I see the juniors playing gangsters, but some of the seniors busy themselves with motors and radios and drawing and painting. In good weather they play games. Some tinker about in the workshop, mending their cycles or making boats or revolvers.