It’s the EASTER HOLIDAYS not ‘half term’

[RuthieW84]

AIBU to be annoyed by people calling the Easter holidays ‘half term holidays? It’s the END of the term...! Half term holidays are October, Feb and May. Not a big deal I know but it niggles at me 🙄

Does my head in. Everyone seems to do it round here now. Nobody did growing up (different part of the uk)

@Ellpellwood

A holiday means going away. With the lockdown and restriction, it also makes so much more sense to know that "staycation" (ie restricted to the UK) are allowed, or HOLIDAYS (crossing the borders) are allowed.

So you would argue a family from Yorkshire who goes to Cornwall each summer has never had a holiday?

When you discuss with people and ask their plans, the answer ALWAYS comes up as "no holiday this year, we' re JUST going to Cornwall etc.".

I don't really care what people do or like, doesn't affect me either way and you can spend a lot more on a nice rental in Cornwall with beach access than a cheap package to Benidorm. But it's a staycation. Staying at HOME doing nothing is neither a holiday nor a staycation, that's the point.

I don't know why people see a judgement. No one is asking how much you spend on your staycation or holiday, and no one actually cares...

@Chicchicchicchiclana I wasn't being 'arsey' at all, if that's how you took it, that's on you, not me. "Completely" inarticulate? I made one typo. One. I think picking on an obvious typo shows you're the one being arsey, and petty.

@Chicchicchicchiclana ""2 semesters in a year, 4 terms in a year. 2 terms per semester" eh?"

It's pretty simple. A semester is 6 months. A term is 3 months. There are 2 terms (2 x 3 months) in a semester.

A term = a quarter.

A semester - half.

I’m even more pedantic about it tbh you have terms which are divided into two halves, both are half terms I.e a period of 6ish weeks. So this half term we are going to be learning about x.
Half term HOLIDAY separates them, and then we also have Easter, xmas and summer HOLIDAY

A holiday means going away.

It really really doesn't. What do you think a bank holiday is?!

Yes! Weirdly this is the first year I've noticed it. Why? I don't get it as all the people who say it are school parents

@ThanksItHasPockets

A holiday means going away.

It really really doesn't. What do you think a bank holiday is?!

If you are arguing that a "staycation" means staying home, and doesn't mean a holiday in your country, what do YOU think a bank holiday is?

Technically the bank is going nowhere 😂

Is this a new sensitivity to the Christian connotations? Stating the obvious, half terms are one week ad the middle of the term, end of term holidays are a min of 2 weeks - they are different holidays! The term 'Summer holidays' seems to have survived as its the only end of term break with no Christian associations.

@whetherpigshavewings I'm refuting your insistence that 'holiday' means crossing a border, because it doesn't. It means time off work, and you are free to apply this both to the institution of the bank itself and the people who work there.

Yes I think so unfortunately

I'm with you on this. My husband calls all the holidays 'half term' except the summer break and doesn't understand why I find it so very annoying. I couldn't tell you why I do, I just do.

It seems the term 'holiday' only now applies to a week or two in Benidorm etc. doing karaoke and quaffing all inclusive pina coladas . Who knew?

[quote ThanksItHasPockets]@whetherpigshavewings I'm refuting your insistence that 'holiday' means crossing a border, because it doesn't. It means time off work, and you are free to apply this both to the institution of the bank itself and the people who work there.[/quote]
You can refuse what you want, I am not in charge of what the papers write or the words other people use.

I am just saying that I agree with them because it makes sense 🤷

Refute

I’ve heard this and find it annoying too. No idea why people are suddenly calling every holiday half term. It was happening before coronavirus.

[quote Cokie3]@Chicchicchicchiclana ""2 semesters in a year, 4 terms in a year. 2 terms per semester" eh?"

It's pretty simple. A semester is 6 months. A term is 3 months. There are 2 terms (2 x 3 months) in a semester.

A term = a quarter.

A semester - half.[/quote]
That's great. But it dosent work that way in England. We have 3 full terms and 3 half terms. No semesters.

Our state school half terms (October definitely) are 2 weeks; changed in 2019 to align with all the secondary school's 2 weeks half term....

The school holidays are holidays from school going on holiday is a different thing - a holiday from the day to day.

Bank holiday - the banks are having a rest 😂

Funnily enough the person I know who refers to all school holidays as half term also never knew that banks were closed on a bank holiday - even when he worked for a bank 🙈

Merry Christmas being renamed as Happy Holidays can piss off

@Chilver

Our state school half terms (October definitely) are 2 weeks; changed in 2019 to align with all the secondary school's 2 weeks half term....

I don’t think that’s country wide - it’s even different in the same county. We have 1 week at each half term (x 3) and 2 weeks each at Easter and Christmas, then 6 weeks in summer. I do know of people who have 2 weeks in October but not where I live

I can understand people feeling jumbled after only a few weeks in school since Christmas, but it was a trend developing before the disruption of the past year.

If you asked me what I was doing at half term, I'd answer that I don't know what I'm doing yet and it depends on how things change through April and May. It would be nice to go camping, but that would depend on the weather and services avaliable so it's far too early to tell two months in advance.

It is confusing when people don't say what they mean and use perfectly clear terminology that existed for many decades.
The majority of the UK has three terms in the autumn, spring and summer with a half term between. Most areas still have 2 weeks for Christmas and Easter and a longer summer holiday, and a single week half term part-way through. Some LAs and individual schools have tweaked the timings a bit, but the 3 term/ 6 half term principle is near universal through the majority of the country.

And agreed that a "staycation" has been corrupted from a series of daytrips based at home to meaning domestic tourism.
Going on holiday anywhere in the UK sounds like bliss at this moment. A "staycation" is more tedious time under my own roof and having to care about the fucking housework when I've got back in at the end of the day.