To think dd headteacher is amazing.

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next school year dd head teacher is having all the teachers training days in one week.

This has enabled me to book a weeks holiday and save a fortune.

Aibu to think other schools should follow this lead.

But no good if you're a parent who also happens to be a teacher.

I wonder if the school will see a drop in parents taking children on term time holidays, as this would hopefully mean you could book that week as cheap as any other that the schools are open for

Worra wouldn't schools just stagger it though? So if everyone did it some would have an extra week in may, some in June etc etc

It's possible. Tbh I don't know a great deal about tutors and how they work.

But I guess it also wouldn't work if you had kids in Primary and Senior schools.

Mrs- teachers do inset in their own time. They lost holidays to do it.

LondonRocks - which is the entire county that does it? Every school has its INSET in the same week? Great idea (unless you are a teacher wanting to take your own children on holiday cheaply...)

We have two days at the start of the year and the rest are evening twilights, three a term.

My DCs school is similar, but there is still a three day discrepancy between our start dates.

What some people don't realise is that Insets can create child care problems for school staff too, especially for part time staff if Insets are on different days to their working days. Mine are older so I'm ok.

it works for Primary but an extra week off in June just can't happen for secondary schools as GCSE exams are happening during that time.

I'm a governor at my kids school and we've allowed the head to do three of the insets as six twilight sessions, one each half term, instead of extra days as its easier to get people in to do training after school as they're busy people. The other two days are used for safeguarding training before the year starts and a governor and teacher training day that takes place in January and helps form the plans for the next year so taking them all together in one week wouldn't fit how we feel training should be done for our teachers.

Inset is a pain though because they have to be fitted in somewhere and odd days really do mess things up!

Also how impressive is it really that teachers' CPD takes place one week in a year and then not again for another year? Surely that's not keeping it completely up to date?

Ah! Majority of our inset is twilight so I wasn't sure on hours.
Not so bad then.