Headteacher tells kids “Have a lay-in”. Kids don’t hear as they’re all asleep

One headteacher is about to become really popular with his students – by giving them a lay-in!

Paul Kelley, head of Monkseaton High School, North Tyneside,is planning to change the timetable to allow his students a big lay-in, with lessons not starting until 11am.

Research suggested that teenagers’ brains were wired differently to those of adults and worked two hours behind adult time, he said. Memory tests performed on Monkseaton High pupils by Russell Foster, chairman of Circadian Neuroscience at Brasenose College, Oxford, indicated that students’ brains worked better in the afternoon. Professor Foster said this indicated that young people’s body clocks could be shifting as they began their teenage years – meaning teenagers got up late because they were biologically programmed to do so.

Here at The Daily Dust we can here millions of students all shouting for joy at this announcement. Lorraine Kelly and Phil & Fern should expect a huge increase in their viewing figures any time soon…

Good snooze hat tip to The Times

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