For the 2013-2014 school year, Poly is implementing a new bell schedule.
This year’s bell schedule is a mixture of both the traditional and blocks structures. In a traditional schedule, there are six class periods in a day that last for the entire school year. In a block schedule, students are able to focus more on a few classes rather than spreading their time amongst six or seven classes each day.
In comparison to last year’s block schedule, this year’s modified block schedule allows all students to receive the same number of instructional minutes in either six or seven periods.
Students who have periods one to six will meet in each class everyday as given in a traditional schedule.
As in last year’s block schedule, students with the modified block schedule will alternate between their gold and green block periods; however, there are a few changes featured in the modified block schedule.
On gold days, students report to their first period. Nutrition is followed by seventh and ninth period. After lunch, students will go to periods five and six. On green days, students will report to eighth and tenth period instead after nutrition. Periods one, five, and six will remain the same.
“The new modified block schedule is a little bit confusing. It will take time to adjust to these new changes,” said senior Nia Salapare.
According to the new bell schedule, school begins at 7:50 A.M. and ends at 2:40 P.M.—ten minutes earlier than last year’s start and end times.
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