A private school has cut its fees by more than half for children who spend one day a week in the classroom and four doing online lessons in a new hybrid teaching programme.
Portland Place School in central London has already enrolled ten pupils who will spend most of the week learning from home. They follow the same curriculum and attend school on Wednesdays for art, music, PE and science practicals and to socialise with friends. The school said it could end up with more pupils being taught through hybrid lessons than at school full-time.
Families pay £21,500 a year for full-time pupils but £8,622 for those who attend one day a week. The other four days pupils follow the timetable and are taught in