How many school days/INSET days?

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On the county website it states there are 190 days in the school year, and that these 190 days "make no provision for the additional 5 days non-contact time for which teachers are contracted. Therefore any INSET sessions should be arranged either outside the above school term dates or outside pupil hours."

This year our secondary school did 189 days (including two 'pupil/tutor review days' where each child is only in for 20 mins). But 4 of these days were INSET days - i.e. no kids, and one was yr7 only.

So most kids did only 182 days, and teachers did 190 not 195. There was only one additional INSET day out of specified term time. In addition there was a strike day. Also at the end of every term they always break up early - just after lunch.

Is this standard practice at most schools? Slightly naughty? Or completely outrageous and Ofsted would have a fit?

190 days with 5 INSET days was the norm when I taught. Is the county in question Cumbria by any chance?

I am not sure if it counts voting days and days off due to bad weather etc. I also suspect thar "review days" are allowed! Why not ring your LEA and clarify?

No, not Cumbria DumbledoresGirl. Why do you ask?

Only because when I googled school days to see if I was right still, it was the Cumbria site that came up and it had written precisely what you quoted in your opening post.