Split school holidays again

Posted on 05/10/2022 17:05 by Cornersteady

Notwithstanding any justified complaints about the club's recent operations half terms in England never (usually and I can't remember any) go into November, they will probably be the week of Monday 23rd.

I've checked Nottinghamshire mbee and they are the 23rd October 2023. Unless your school or authority will have different dates?

I've also done a quick check through five other areas and it's all been the 23rd October so far. To be a little fair to the club it can't know all the differing half term dates for the whole country?

Post edit: I've just found out Sunderland and Newcastle have different dates!!! One is 23rd, the other the 30th, so I would check with your school direct. Of course academies can set their own dates irrespective of LEA dates as well.

Posted on 05/10/2022 17:05 by Cornersteady

Notwithstanding any justified complaints about the club's recent operations half terms in England never (usually and I can't remember any) go into November, they will probably be the week of Monday 23rd.

I've checked Nottinghamshire mbee and they are the 23rd October 2023. Unless your school or authority will have different dates?

https://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/media/3082397/2023-2024-school-term-dates.pdf

I've also done a quick check through five other areas and it's all been the 23rd October so far. To be a little fair to the club it can't know all the differing half term dates for the whole country?

Post edit: I've just found out Sunderland and Newcastle have different dates!!! One is 23rd, the other the 30th, so I would check with your school direct. Of course academies can set their own dates irrespective of LEA dates as well.

Post edit 2 , it looks as though some places are having a two week half term? Do teachers do any work?

Posted on 05/10/2022 17:42

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Nottinghamshire half term dates do most certainly go into November in 2023. It wouldn’t be that difficult for the club to check, they are published online. They only have to go into the government website and put a few post codes in. Perhaps if they don’t check they won’t put the price up in the first week of November.😀

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Posted on 05/10/2022 17:42 by SteveL

Nottinghamshire half term dates do most certainly go into November in 2023. It wouldn’t be that difficult for the club to check, they are published online. They only have to go into the government website and put a few post codes in. Perhaps if they don’t check they won’t put the price up in the first week of November.😀

Posted on 05/10/2022 17:05 by Cornersteady

Notwithstanding any justified complaints about the club's recent operations half terms in England never (usually and I can't remember any) go into November, they will probably be the week of Monday 23rd.

I've checked Nottinghamshire mbee and they are the 23rd October 2023. Unless your school or authority will have different dates?

https://www.nottinghamcity.gov.uk/media/3082397/2023-2024-school-term-dates.pdf

I've also done a quick check through five other areas and it's all been the 23rd October so far. To be a little fair to the club it can't know all the differing half term dates for the whole country?

Post edit: I've just found out Sunderland and Newcastle have different dates!!! One is 23rd, the other the 30th, so I would check with your school direct. Of course academies can set their own dates irrespective of LEA dates as well.

Post edit 2 , it looks as though some places are having a two week half term? Do teachers do any work?

Posted on 05/10/2022 19:33 by Cornersteady

Well it caught me out and I'm a Ofsted inspector

It's not as easy as the club doing that Steve as what is published online are LEA dates which do not apply to any academy which can set their own dates, and 80% of secondary school are academies and 64% of primary schools are part of a larger secondary academy trust so will follow them as well.

Also Nottingham also has a two week half term because they close so late for Christmas and in the summer so their first week is actually the 23rd.

What I've looked at since posting using government data is that the large majority of LEAs are 23rd October. 

In any case those dates won't be confirmed (legally) yet till they are approved by Governors sometime this term.

So taking all that into account I still say asking the club to check all 152 LEA's then check further with all academies is asking a bit too much. Of course perhaps they did as as the majority are 23rd the club went with that?

Posted on 05/10/2022 19:38 by mbee1

Yes we are in Nottinghamshire and we do get two weeks ending on 3 November 2023.  I work in education so know them.   Derbyshire only has one week and also ends on 3 November 2023.

Teachers also work extremely hard. 

Posted on 05/10/2022 19:46 by mbee1

Of course Governors approval will just be a formality. Certainly here in Nottinghamshire there was a debate a few years ago about Academies choosing their own holidays, when a number of secondaries chose different dates to their feeder primaries.  Needless to say, parents created such a fuss (and rightly so) that it didn’t happen again.

There is also a consultation in the county at the moment to fix Easter back to the “traditional” Easter break being the week before and the week after the Easter weekend. 

I’m not saying the powers that be should check all LA dates but where it spans more than one date, common sense should prevail.