To want to reiterate that 'yes' it's August and 'yes' Scottish schools are back

[MammyV]

Honestly on every post on here which mentions a child being in school at the moment, someone, at least one poster states 'are you abroad or something' or 'why are your kids in school it's only august?'
Please please understand that most Scottish schools commence back after summer from around the 15th August, we are not abroad, we are in the Uk (at the moment anyway) and I am fully aware of the English/Welsh holidays as its blasted a cross the BBC enough, just irritates me with some of the comments
(Will get off my Scottish high horse now)
Thanks xxx

It's hard to keep track, in my work there are people from about 5 different council areas and almost all of the holiday dates are different from each other! Some went back last Thursday, some at the start of the week, some this Wednesday and others not til yesterday!

I hear you! We've been back since Tuesday. I too have had questions raised in the past!

My sister kids (neighbouring local authority) went back on Monday but mine never went back until Wednesday.

YANBU, I've seen this so many times on MN. It drives me nuts.

I'm in Oz and I get a lot of

"Oh yeah? I don't believe you...it's midnight ffs!" type responses.

OP YANBU.

It reminds people that MN is as big as the world!

WappersReturns
'I'm considering fucking off until September when the world can start turning again once English schools are back.'

You made me giggle with this but unfortunately it's true

Yanbu.

Edinburgh schools don't get August Bank holiday. But I work for an English firm and I'll be off.

It's my one, annual, state sponsored freebie! I treasure it.

Lol at not s troll just Scottish!
How do people in Scotland feel about the schools starting back in August? Seems really odd to me as August is holiday month but is that just because I'm indoctrinated in the English school system?

Igneococcus

The summer holidays start around the same time (give or take a week) here in Scotland but is council controlled and depends on the council you reside in, also they finish give or take a week, again council dependant. I think my main issue is that no one seems to believe 'posters' in general on here now, people always seem too look for a reason to question or belittle, sad for a site that's supposed unite us all?

And again scotland is subject to other internal regional holidays that do not affect other areas such as 'Glasgow fair fortnight' etc

Fife went back last week, no holidays this term until the October fortnight. We have an INSET day on a Friday in November which I don't have to do, YAY and that's it until 23rd December. I get the OP's annoyance though. Same every flipping year.

I moved from Edinburgh to London as a kid. We moved in August so I had THE longest summer holiday. It was brilliant.

No sept wkend here but they do have an in service in Nov so not one month without a day off!!

I don't see August as a holiday month. The nights are always drawing in, September the first Autumn month is just around the corner, and it's not exactly ace weather when is it ever. It annoys me up here that we're still in school over the longest day. By my reckoning, that's supposed to be the height of summer, therefore we break off when the nights are starting to draw back in again as it is. I couldn't bear being in school the 3rd week in July. Maybe I'm just indoctrinated into the Scottish system

Do the teachers get all that holiday as well, or do they have to do preparations/training, etc for a proportion?

When I was teaching in the USA I was on an 11 month contract, some teachers were on 10 month contracts so they only got 11 months pay. I got 12 months pay but had to work one month after the schools broke up. It was May-August but I worked throughout June. Planning and prep for the new school year.

I'm in the southern hemisphere, my childen's summer holidays start on mid December and end on the 1st of Feb. The fact that we're not in Australia seems to blows people's minds even more, for some reason

StealthPolarBear

Think we are just all used to it, always been August return since I was little.And to be fair, the Scottish weather is hardly tropical sunshine at this time of year, last couple of days been torrential here in glasgow so quite glad kids are back in school. We have. Long weekend off in sept (sept weekend) which is always one to look forward to and then the October week holiday, it's not too bad as we finished school for summer in just and gives you a chance to grab cheap holidays flying from England x

Stealth I think you're exactly right, it's just what you're used to. I think it is totally bizarre to be going to school in July because that is a holiday month

*June not just

Wow - I've never seen people get grief for it.

It's winter term here, and we're just past the middle half of the year (July winter hols are the mid point).

Loads of the rest of the world are in school right now!

Katie, you were lucky; my friend moved up from Wales in the summer hols, so her ds only got 2 weeks!

I'm in N Ireland and I therefore declare that going to school in either July OR August is nothing short of barbaric

We moved from Scotland to England in early September .It didn't occur to me until the end of that academic year that my daughter had effectively done about 4 weeks extra at school!

That sound very civilised, treacle soda! Best of both worlds.

But don't you know that Scotland only consists of 4 people and a couple of Highland cows?

Or so people seem to think anyway...