Starting in February, as they reach the end of term tests, form five students are required to go to a study period on Saturdays, typically from 7:30 a.m. until 10:30 a.m.
Most of the time, students do not move from each individual class to class like a lot of students in the U.S. do. Instead, students will stay in the same classroom the whole day and only the instructor changes. The only time students will leave from their designated classrooms is when they leave for special classes, which are like elective classes in the U.S. In this case, students actually go outside to transition from class to class, even in the rain and cold weather.
Students are also required to wear school uniforms while at school. Girls wear dresses or a collared shirt, vest and a skirt. Boys wear long pants and a sweater. Both wear socks and black shoes, and most students also wear school-emblemed hats to try to beat the heat, especially during the afternoons in the summer.
Students do not use technology in class. Phones are actually banned from school, and students handwrite notes and get physical papers for their assignments. All worksheets, test examples and actual tests are taken with paper and pencil. There is a computer lab, but that is the only time students have access to technology throughout their school day.
The classrooms are very echoey, as the rooms are big, and desks and chairs are so old that they make a lot of noise when scraped against the floor. They still use chalkboards, though the previous ETA gave classrooms white boards that they occasionally use as well. Walls are often cracked, written on or damaged in some way. There are not many resources within the school.
