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(iii) Bi-sessional Operation

This means the use of one school building to accommodate two separate schools, one school operating mornings only and the other afternoons only.

33. In considering the provision of sufficient 5-year places for the 12-16 age-group by 1980 in the recommended proportions we came to the following conclusions:

(i) In order to provide the required 113,700 grammar type places by 1980, it would not be necessary to resort to any of the three arrangements described in paragraph 32. The planned building programme for 34 grammar schools by 1976 together with exist- ing places would alone more than meet the needs for this type of place. In fact, three schools planned as grammar type schools for 1976 could be re-allocated for secondary technical require- ments, which we now deal with below.

(ii) Floating classes already exist in Secondary Technical Schools and it is understood that their use will be continued in new Secondary Schools. In order to provide the required 75,800 secondary technical school places by 1980, it would be necessary to introduce rotation in all existing and planned schools of this type and bi-sessional operation in some 24 schools. This assumes the re-allocation of three planned grammar-type schools and concentrating the building programme for 5-year places between 1976 and 1980 on producing 32 secondary technical schools.

34. In considering the provision of 267,000 places to meet the needs for the 12-14 age-group in the recommended proportions by 1980, and bearing in mind that some children of this age group will be accommo- dated in 5-year course schools, we concluded that it would be necessary to introduce rotation into existing and planned schools, both asymme- trical type and pre-vocational type, and bi-sessional operation in a combined total of 20 such schools. Again, this assumes the normal functioning of all existing 3-year course places, the continuation of floating classes in existing schools and their introduction into new schools, the buying of 56,000 places in selected private schools, and a building programme of some 57 new schools between now and 1980.

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