Monday
Period 1: (09:15am - 10:15am) - Maths
Break: (10:15am - 10:30am)
Period 2: (10:35am - 11:35am) - Business Studies
Period 3: (11:40am - 12:40pm) - English
Lunch: (12:40pm - 13:45pm)
Period 4: (13:55pm - 14:55pm) - Maths
Period 5: (15:00pm - 16:00pm) - Chemistry
Tuesday
Period 1: (09:15am - 10:15am) - Biology
Break: (10:15am - 10:30am)
Period 2: (10:35am - 11:35am) - Business Studies
Period 3: (11:40am - 12:40pm) - French
Lunch: (12:40pm - 13:45pm)
Period 4: (13:55pm - 14:55pm) - Chemistry
Period 5: (15:00pm - 16:00pm) - P.S.H.E
Wednesday
Period 1: (09:15am - 10:15am) - I.C.T
Break: (10:15am - 10:30am)
Period 2: (10:35am - 11:35am) - English
Period 3: (11:40am - 12:40pm) - Biology
Lunch: (12:40pm - 13:45pm)
Period 4: (13:55pm - 14:55pm) - P.E
Period 5: (15:00pm - 16:00pm) - P.E
Thursday
Period 1: (09:15am - 10:15am) - I.C.T
Break: (10:15am - 10:30am)
Period 2: (10:35am - 11:35am) - Physics
Period 3: (11:40am - 12:40pm) - French
Lunch: (12:40pm - 13:45pm)
Period 4: (13:55pm - 14:55pm) - Media Studies
Period 5: (15:00pm - 16:00pm) - Maths
Friday
Period 1: (09:15am - 10:15am) - Maths
Break: (10:15am - 10:30am)
Period 2: (10:35am - 11:35am) - Physics
Period 3: (11:40am - 12:40pm) - English
Lunch: (12:40pm - 13:45pm)
Period 4: (13:55pm - 14:55pm) - English
Period 5: (15:00pm - 16:00pm) - Media Studies
At GCSE level, you're timetabled to get two hours of each lesson you choose to take as well as an extra two hours for Maths and English to cope with the 'more intense' syllabus. In addition, you get one lesson of P.S.H.E (where we essentially watched episodes of Panorama with one teacher or played "Heads Down Thumbs Up" with the other teacher) and two lessons of P.E.
I 'dropped' P.S.H.E in favour of having an additional free period. Officially it's down as an extra Media Studies lesson (as I've taken the Dual Media Studies Award), but in reality it was just me going to the I.C.T room and messing about.
I also 'dropped' P.E, for the same reason as above. Ended up where, if I was by myself, I'd update the fleet lists for NEB. If I wasn't, I'd just have a laugh with the person/people I was with. Wasn't supervised or anything, so really was a free afternoon.
Soon after this, more people started finding ways to get out of P.E (i.e. to do Controlled Assessments) and the P.E department ended up giving up. Towards the end, nobody was doing P.E apart from those who took it as a GCSE subject. We're meant to get one period of it in Sixth Form too, but there's a fat chance that's happening as I've not done a single P.E lesson in over a year now.
Best thing about Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays is that you essentially go home whenever you want after half three. That's when most teachers start disappearing if they have a free last lesson and if the teacher is on 'bus duty', they tend to let you out before then anyway. Some of them stick to the rules and don't let you out until 16:00 on the dot, but most just let you go when you want. Here's hoping nobody works for any sort of educational department on the forum!
