Therese Hoyle
Therese Hoyle's seminar is called "Help - what can I do about lunchtimes?" because that was what staff and heads so often wailed at her during her work as a behavioural trainer with Jenny Mosley consultancies.
"Nowadays a 90-minute break is not uncommon," Therese explains. "In cities in particular, the typical playground is an expanse of concrete. What lunchtimes in these circumstances produce may not be so much bad behaviour as bored behaviour, but whichever, the effect is devastating. The lunchbreak can be a terrible time. Afterwards, teachers have to deal with queues of miserable, restless children complaining about what happened at lunch."
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