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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
National
Sally Weale Education correspondent

‘I love the four-day week’: south London school part of a quiet revolution

Two boys working on laptops at a desk
School days are longer and pupils are given work to do on Friday or over the weekend. Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian

At a small independent school on the fringes of a National Trust park in Morden, south London, a quiet revolution is under way.

Lessons are held in yurt-style tents, or “dens”, dotted around the three-acre site, everyone is on first-name terms, mental health is a cornerstone of the curriculum and, perhaps most controversially, pupils are only required to come to school four days a week.

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