Global Education for a Global Future
TGBS provides 1,000 minutes of live lesson time for every child every week, making us one of the world’s leading online schools in terms of face-to-face tuition.
Lessons are 40 minutes in length allowing students to have 2 x 20 minute focus periods in each lesson.Between lessons, there are 5 minute brain-breaks. A daily 15 minute snack-break for students and teachers between Lesson 3 and Lesson 4.
Every day also starts with an Assembly, enabling students and staff to lead a brief thought or reflection on topics of importance to us all as world citizens.
TGBS gives students and parents a regular pattern to every school day, wherever in the world you live.
Every day starts and ends at the same time, when it is morning in England. However, our students can join those live lessons from anywhere in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and as far east at the border between India and Myanmar.
A Borderless Education
This timetabling arrangement means that lessons are always live; all our students have to do is login at the right time, according to the timezone in which they live.
This lesson timetable also means that your child can access live lessons even if you are travelling to countries which are within the seven timezones which we cover.
For example :
If you live in Abu Dhabi but visit family in Pakistan, your child is able to log into TGBS’s live lessons with their classmates in both places, by checking the time against GMT in each location.
Similarly, if you change jobs and have to move your family permanently to a country within our seven timezones seven timezones, your child never has to change schools; he or she just has to change the time of day whenthey login for lessons.
We confirm the timezones and lesson times which apply to each family when they first register, in order to make sure that timings are clear before classes start.
Lesson Times
Our lessons are taught live every day, and are governed by GMT (Greenwich Mean Time), sometimes known as London Time or UK Time.
For the vast majority of our students, this means that lessons will always happen at the same time every day.
However, there are some countries in the world which follow the UK in changing their clocks twice a year so that times ‘fall back’ by one hour at the end of October, and ‘spring forward’ by one hour at the end of March.
Take a look at the chart below.
If you are living in a country where your times are tied to GMT and the clocks do ‘fall back’ and ‘spring forward’, your lesson times will be the ones shown in red from April to October, and will change to those shown in blue from November to March.
For everyone else, where clocks remain the same throughout the year, your lesson times will always stay the same. That local time for you will depend on where you live, but you can work this out using the method shown in green below.
There are some examples beneath the chart which may also be helpful to you.
Find Your Times
UK and other countries
tied to GMT
April to October
| Assembly | 9.00am |
| LESSON 1 | 9.10am |
| LESSON 2 | 9.55am |
| LESSON 3 | 10.40am |
| Snack | 11.20am |
| LESSON 4 | 11.35am |
| LESSON 5 | 12.20pm |
| End of day | 1.00pm |
All countries which
are NOT tied to GMT
All year
Find your local time ON 1ST SEPTEMBER when its 9.00am in
UK.
That local time is when Assembly will always start for you, and lessons will
follow on accordingly throughout the day and FOR THE WHOLE YEAR.
UK and other countries
tied to GMT
November to March
| 8.00am | Assembly |
| 8.10am | LESSON 1 |
| 8.55am | LESSON 2 |
| 9.40am | LESSON 3 |
| 10.20am | Snack |
| 10.35am | LESSON 4 |
| 11.20am | LESSON 5 |
| 12.00pm | End of day |
For example :
A child in Lagos will begin Assembly every day at 9am because Nigeria is GMT +0 on 1st September. That child’s Lesson 1 will always start at 9.10am in Nigerian time, and the day will always end at 1pm, even when the clocks in the UK fall back by one hour between November and March.
A child in Doha will begin Assembly every day at 11am because Qatar is GMT +2 on 1st September. That child’s Lesson 1 will always start at 11.10am in Qatari time, and the day will always end at 3pm, even when the clocks in the UK fall back by one hour between November and March.
A child in Delhi will begin Assembly every day at 1.30pm because India is GMT +4.5 on 1st September. That child’s Lesson 1 will always start at 1.40pm in Indian time, and the day will always end at 5.30pm, even when the clocks in the UK fall back by one hour between November and March.
However, a child in Paris will begin Assembly at 10am because France is tied to GMT +1 all year round. That child’s Lesson 1 will therefore start at 10.10am in French time in September. It will then ‘fall back’ to 9.10am between November and March, and ‘spring forward’ again to 10.10am in April.
As we say above, so that everything is clear in this regard, we confirm with parents in writing exactly how these lessons times will work for them when we confirm the allocation of their child’s place in TGBS.
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