To ask when the schools in London are off for Easter

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Planning a trip to London and want to do a theme park with 3 young kids so don't want to be queuing. Will be coming from NI so hoping the school holidays will be different dates to here. Here my kids are off 2&3 week of April which is 10-21 April.

Can anyone tell me when school hols are? Looked online and thought they were 1st 2 weeks of April so thought we could do the 3rd week of April but then got different dates on another site.

Actually my top tip is get cheap flights to Billund for the Denmark Legoland . Much more enjoyable.

We went to legoland last Easter- Easter Saturday and Sunday. Not granted it was wet and drizzly but the longest we queued for a ride was 15 mins. It was fairly quiet.
Compared to the first weekend in September where we had to queue for an hour + for all rides, Easter was lovely.

Think I might just risk it at Easter and try getting a 2nd day ticket if it's cheap. Really need a getaway break.

DD had seen ads on tv for gullivers land. Anyone been? Is there many rides for under 7s?

I haven't been to Gullivers land but my friend used to take her children when they were small. She said it was a theme park for younger ones. Mind you that was over 10 years ago now so it might have changed

First week of July might be better but difficult to tell really as lots of schools use that time post-SATs etc and just before the beginning of school holidays for school trips so you won't find many people on actual holiday but lots wandering around in school uniform.

Don't Britain's schools have later Summer holidays than we do? We finish at the end of June but I think they finish late July, so maybe you'd be better doing something else for Easter and going there early July instead.

What about Tayto Park (Meath) or Funtasia (Drogheda)? Although both will likely still be packed. I remember going to Barry's in Portrush for a day over the Easter break, it's not what it used to be these days.

Six??! Good grief - that's insane! We have one in the whole of Kent which is about double the size

Two, surely - Medway is separate.

I have no idea why they decided to split Berkshire - hardly the biggest county in the UK - into 6 unitary authorities. One theory is that John Redwood (Wokingham's Tory MP) was the driving force, because the Berkshire County Council had recently turned Lib-Dem...

Anyway, they did, in 1998, so now we have Reading, West Berkshire, Windsor & Maidenhead, Bracknell Forest, Slough and Wokingham. Berkshire now only exists as a postal and 'ceremonial' entity, so it still has a Lord Lieutenant and a High Sherriff!

Legoland, by the way, is in the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead, whose schools break up on Friday March 31st and return on Tuesday April 18th. (Just to return to the point of the thread!)

Rusty Bear - the reason Berkshire is six LAs is: the government (Conservative at the time) wanted to devolve power more locally, and basically tried to split all of the old Counties into smaller areas eg. Boroughs for Surrey. Every County except Berkshire resisted - Berkshire being loyal Tories said "this is a wonderful idea". Then Berkshire noticed no one else had agreed, tried to backtrack - by then it was too late, so it was abolished. And the only one to be abolished.
Admittedly it leads to really weird areas like Maidenhead and Windsor; where Maidenhead and Ascott have a 2 tier education system, with Windsor in the middle having three tier.