Holidays Year 10/11

Most families can’t afford more than one holiday and take that in the summer holidays, that is fine. If you are fortunate enough to be able to afford multiple holidays i would avoid Easter and both feb and may half term as these are peak revision times (you can always grab a couple of nights away short notice if your young person does want to get away). If your school has mock in January then Christmas will be out too potentially. One of my DD’s worked really hard with revising, one didn’t, the one that didn’t got better results, life isn’t always fair alas

Yes agree, surely most people with school-age DC are more likely to go on their holiday in July/August anyway?

Actually GCSE year can be a win as (depending on prom and sixth-form induction days) you can often get a bargain or at least avoid the crowds by going away late June/early July. Obvs either only with the year 11 DC or if there are no other DC at school still!

Year 10 is fine for holidays if you avoid mocks (find out from school when they are as they vary).

For year 11 I would avoid holidays after Oct half term tbh. Certainly I wouldn't go away April and May. You might find your YP is not keen anyway. I recall reading about a family who had gone away May half term and then for some reason not got their flight home – and their DS missed his maths GCSE. That was tough for hm but a bit shortsighted of the family tbh.

We are going away this year at Easter, pre yr 10 mocks but not planning to go away Feb/Easter/May next year. Short trip with dd1 after exams and then family summer holiday once dd2 breaks up.

DS is year 9. He’s away with school in October half term of both year 10 (Rome- classics) and year 12 (Germany, Battlefields- history).
We will have a holiday at Easter of year 10, but in year 11 we won’t go away at all until the summer.
I love holidays but his education is more important.

I don’t know anyone who regularly goes abroad on holidays in April and May to the point that they feel like they would find it a sacrifice not to go.

Year ten is fine to go away in May half term and Easter as the mocks are often straddling the February half term. In year eleven, I would not go on any holiday at all until after contingency day.