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Curious: Bristol girls state secondary- with 9 weeks summer holiday??!

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Erebus · 18/07/2011 21:51

I am just curious! My mum was telling me about a neighbour's GDD in the Bristol area who attends a girls secondary which apparently was private before gaining presumably academy status, though it would have been in an early round, not the latest 'free-for-all'.

Whilst my mum, bless 'er, has been known to get her facts confused, she was adamant that this DD had begun 9 weeks of summer holiday along with the private schools over a week ago!

Can this be true? Could it be a throw back to private status?

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Erebus · 19/07/2011 08:16

So, let me get this straight in my mind- this is effectively a girls private school where the government picks up the fees?

I had no idea they existed! I though that the moment a school became wholly LEA funded they had to tick the same boxes as other state schools! Like length of teaching day/holidays etc etc.

But there you go!

My DS's secondary became an academy recently (on the 'outstanding' program)- but there's no way it's anywhere near that free of LEA rules!

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RitaMorgan · 18/07/2011 22:16

Colston Girls' School I expect - academies are still independent even though they are state funded.

franticallyjugglinglife · 18/07/2011 22:13

OFFS... CGS I reckon....

Ohforfoxsake · 18/07/2011 22:05

I'm wondering if that's my old school...

franticallyjugglinglife · 18/07/2011 21:54

This will be my old school in Bristol... And yes, they started summer hols on July 8th!

HauntedLittleLunatic · 18/07/2011 21:53

I thought that the lea holidays were fixed...so I would have thought it was private.

But then - having said that I haven't worked out where the academies fit into that.

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