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Mornings: with Kaye Adams

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On the phone-in Kaye asks, do we need longer school hours to help kids catch up?

On the phone-in Kaye asks, do we need longer school hours to help kids catch up? She also speaks to Scotland footballer Jen Beattie, and it is your chance to Ask the Vet.

Phone In: The school week should be extended by eight hours in a £130 million rescue plan to make up for lost lessons during lockdown according to a leading Scottish education expert. It comes as England’s education tsar Sir Kevan Collins told the BBC that extra hours of academic learning - as well as sport, music and drama - will be needed to help pupils make up ground following the pandemic and that summer schools ‘had promise’. 

Kaye Asks: Do we need longer school hours to help kids catch up?

NTP SET UP 
Can you name today’s place name in Scotland? 

JEN BEATTIE 
Footballer Jen Beattie on coping with a breast cancer diagnosis at age 29. Her dad John joins us too. 

ASK VET SURGERY 
Ross Allan will be back with our Ask the Vet surgery. We’ll be looking at snakes on the loose and whether your cat should go vegan.

SONG FOR YOU 
Alex wants to say thanks to his Dad with a song

MELODIES FOR MUMS 
How music can help mums cope with post-natal depression

GROUP CHAT BURN OUT 
Have you got group chat burn out? You are not alone

INCLUSION SCOTLAND 
The disability campaigners who do not want life to go back to “normal”

YOUNG PEOPLE MOVING
We speak to the young people leaving the big cities behind

PROPOSALS 
We hear about the awkward Scottish proposal which ended up in a Ridley Scot project

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