Monkseaton students encouraged to spend more time with bedding
Published: 12 November 2009
Children in the north-east of England are being given more time with their bedding; after all, better sleep will lead to their improved development and attentiveness, argues their headteacher.
Whitley Bay, a small town on the coast of North Tyneside, is to pilot a scheme at a school which will see children coming into class at 10:00 GMT each day, promoting time with bedding to improve attentiveness.Following approval from teachers, parents and pupils alike, Monkseaton High School has started the five-month trial run with the aim of avoiding sleepy pupils from stumbling through the day and missing important information.
Dr Paul Kelley, the school's headmaster, has decided to follow the principals of Russell Foster, a professor of circadian neuroscience at Brasenose College in Oxford.
The teaching top dog explained that Foster's research emphasised how just over nine hours of sleep is the optimum amount of time under the duvet cover if full development and learning is to take place for schoolchildren.
"Sleep provides all of us with our sense of wellbeing and the faculty that helps make us human: our extraordinary capacity for creativity and innovation," Mr Foster's research underlined.
Earlier this month, Dr Judith Owens, a paediatric sleep expert, told the Vancouver Sun that the signals of a lack of time with bedding include moodiness, irritability and crankiness.
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