No Bells by Kurtis L

On May the 4th Room 1,2,3 had a social experiment around our reliance on bells on Room 4-13. we had to write down everything they did either before morning tea/lunch or just before morning tea/lunch finished. here is a good example by Kurtis L.

No Bells

by Kurtis Large

What if the bells randomly stop working? How would we cope? How would you know? What if the clock even stopped working? Well that's what we thought. A experiment that triggered these 5-11 year old students. We stopped all the bells on May the 4th 2016 at Stanley Ave school. A experiment that made us think differently. The results were unusual.

“Is morning tea yet” asked one of the students even though it was only 5 minutes to morning tea. All the 6-7 year old kids are yapping away while reading. The kid is still begging to go to morning tea, just about getting on his knees.

“Time to pack up” yelled the teacher. Then the chaos started. Children yelling at each other, fighting over toys to put away. After 2-3 minutes of this they finally settled down and sat on the mat. The teacher went on about stuff I can’t quite remember. It was about 5 minutes past morning tea when the teacher finally gave up and sent the children outside.

The children definitely acted different to what I thought. Most of them didn’t even realised the bell apart from one. I learnt that they are VERY trustworthy on the bell and if they didn’t even have a teacher to remind them, they would have worked right through morning tea and lunch. I personally think that bells should not be removed because the students are too reliant on the bell.