What is the British school calendar?

Question

I read the various school series by Enid Blyton and she talked about "summer term" and "winter term" and the holidays, but didn't say how long the terms were, or how many days (weeks) vacation there were between terms. Can someone provide an example of a year-long schedule? When does a new school year start & end?

Answer 1

It depends

most schools start the new year at the beginning of September but some start as early as August - this is the autumn term . Half term is a few days around the end of October - for most schools it is a week but faith schools that have days of for religious holidays may only have 2 or 3 days. The next holiday is Christmas, normally 2 weeks and then another half term in February. Then Easter holiday, 2 weeks and then back to school until june / july, possibly with another half term.

Private schools generally have longer holidays and terms may have different names.

As i said faith schools may have odd days off e.g. catholic schools normally take a day for all saints (1st November) so the school takes that day off one of the other holidays.

Some LEAs - Local education authorities set the same holidays for all state schools in their area, others don't so children in the same family who attend different schools may have holidays on different dates.

Any clearer? I thought not - hey I grew up with this system and it still doesn't make sense.

Answer 2

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