One of the country’s leading boarding schools is to introduce meditation sessions in an attempt to calm unsettled and fidgety children during lessons.

The initiative is part of a raft of “creative learning” techniques to be introduced at Brighton College following a round-the-world fact finding mission led by its headmaster Richard Cairns.

From September, all teachers in the school will be supplied with an “emergency” meditation kit in order to quell boisterous youngsters during class. The kit will consist of videos, audio recordings and background information on how to conduct three-minute mediation sessions during lessons.

The a £40,000-a-year co-educational school’s newly appointed director of creative learning, Thomas Godber, said: “Simple mindfulness techniques like asking children to feel themselves sitting in the chair, feel their feet and the sensation of their socks and shoes on their feet – this will allow them to concentrate and feel more relaxed.”