Lighthearted - do you think school will be open tomorrow?

[Matchingcollarandcuffs]

Much argument here this morning, DS thinks school is off tomorrow as the online term dates show it as a BH, as the BH has moved to next week I would expect school to be open (there are other inset days coming up).

I’ve emailed school to check and I’ll be gone anyway but what would you expect?

@girlmom21 they are getting a "random extra day" because of the once in a lifetime Platinum Jubilee celebrations.
Yes - gazillions of people will be working those days but schools are always closed on bank holidays.

Selecting a day and calling it a bank holiday, when it isn’t?

And the schools are closed - next week - when it's the jubilee.

They moved half term for that reason.

Calling days that aren’t bank holiday, bank holiday?

Yep, schools could choose when to take their extra jubilee bank holiday as it fell in half term. DD's school had hers in November! I am on mine today as we already had an INSET day tomorrow. Setting myself up for a day of report writing.

This explains it well. The DfE have put measures in place which actively encourage schools to do this.

The same thing happened in 2012 and 2011 for other additional bank holidays.

It's in lieu of the bank holiday - rather than them just calling it a bank holiday. Our school added theirs on to the Easter break. Not ridiculous at all.

Only in your area of Scotland

@Intrigueddotcom it's basically a day off in lieu of the bank holiday. Schools aren't just naming a random date as a bank holiday.

I meant the schools in my area, sorry for not being more specific! North Lanarkshire

Just to be clear it was the wording that threw me, if they said’carried over Bank Holiday’ or ‘day in lieu of extra BH’ I’d have got it but it was the fact they just called it BH.

This school have 11 inset days a year, he’s got a 4 day weekend in 4 weeks time, so it’s not an inset.

Interesting how differently schools are splitting the day though.

Why do they have 11 inset days a year? Is that a state school?

Our schools are off tomorrow and Monday (this is our usual May weekend holiday) and then off again next Friday

My dcs school only has 5 in-service days in a school year

There are supposed be 195 school days... 194 this year

It’s an academy, who I believe can set their own, DC has more than a week more insets than the other dcs at another school in a different trust, all secondary

What hours does he do - does he do longer hours.

8-30 to 3-10 with 35 mins lunch

The kids are off tomorrow and next week where I live.

the OP’s one did

If the dates schools have chosen have varied, perhaps you might be able to visit somewhere without long queues.

@Intrigueddotcom are you normally this picky? I assume they just didn't put the words "day off in lieu" on the school calendar.
Schools abbreviate all the time...
GCSE
SATS
.....etc

@Needmorelego but at no point have they emailed us or otherwise explained that they’ve added this extra day, it’s been on the website only which was actually added last year hence the query as I know I’ve bought calendars/diaries that have come with an addendum saying the BHs for Jubilee were confirmed so late they’d already gone to press.

If school had emailed to explain, or even remind us that they were closed tomorrow it would have been fine, they normally do.

DS has inset day tomorrow, they usually have one before the May half term. Then they're off on the 6th as well for the extra bank holiday.

@Matchingcollarandcuffs so have you actually had confirmation from the school that they are closed Friday? Every school is having this extra day at different times. It might not be this Friday.
If the school hasn't confirmed it then it will all be a bit embarrassing for them if kids turn up tomorrow.
If you haven't had confirmation from the school phone them NOW before the office closes (or it might be too late - you will have to call them in the morning).