Imagine that your high-school junior spends half of every day at the brick-and-mortar school up the street.

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It's one way to keep the attention of ten-year-olds who are expected to stay focused for KIPP's nine-and-a-half-hour long school day.

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When Mariana Beer was accepted to read English at Bristol in 1921, her headmistress celebrated with a half-day holiday for the entire school.

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These original classes proved so popular that in 2008 she closed the hotel and moved into a new purpose-designed cooking school in Sultanahmet, where she now offers hands-on half-day classes focussing on traditional Anatolian dishes.

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Prop forward Scott Wilson, flankers Jack Allcock and Hugo Peterson and fly-half Jonathan Burn are the players called-up for a three-day development camp at Abingdon School between 16-19 February.

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At the top, as well as basic information about the school, there are ABSENCE figures showing the percentage of half-day sessions lost due to authorised and unauthorised absence.

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Stone worked for months trying to reconcile the different requirements each program had for families as well as the school, before throwing his hands up and deciding instead to offer two half-day pre-K classes.

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The other day after-school, after a tip-off, they spent a good half hour pawing over a listing for Scarlet Ninjini.

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Targeted equally at growers and executives from Champagne houses, it involves 10 one-and-a-half day sessions over the course of a year, after which students can be considered for an MBA at the school, should they wish.

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