Imagine going to school each week without those boring and time consuming home work? This may become the reality for students of a top UK girl’s school.

Cheltenham Ladies’ College, Gloucestershire in an effort to make the wellbeing of its students as important as their grades plans to introduce meditation sessions, long walks between classes and no homework.

This may become a reality as the  independent school tries to combat teenage mental illness-depression and anxiety.

The school’s principal-Eve Jardine-Young, told The Times that she is considering abolishing homework in a bid to improve her students’ welfare.

‘What we’ve been reflecting on a lot in the last few years are the big national trends in the worsening states of adolescent mental health,’ she said.

She added; ‘we’ve created this epidemic of anxiety for ourselves as a society, and if our obligation as educators is to try to the best of our ability to set young people up as best we can, then to ignore this whole area or to trivialise it is really irresponsible.’

What is certain is that, from September, students at the 162-year-old school will go to weekly meditation classes and have twice as long to wander between classes.