Anyone else got an extra looooong summer holiday? (State school)

[Milliways]

Just realised DS has 7.5 weeks! Breaks up 16th July & returns 8th September.

Is this normal? Never noticed much over 6 weeks before -although, to be fair, his recent hols have all been exact weeks with no extra days tagged on, but still - that is a very long break to fill.

Anyone else?

They used to have 8 weeks when they did Saturday mornings, but it went down to 6 when they dropped them (in 2002) - don't know why it's so long this year. Our school is 22nd July to 6th September.

30 June to 30 Aug

but we are Not In The Country.

We usually get 7 weeks, though I'm not sure of the dates this year but it tends to run from a, say, Wednesday, to a Wednesday so 6 full weeks plus the extra days.

21st July to 31st August
We Are In The Country.

Hello Rusty

Yes, they are breaking up about a week before the official Council "term date" - which he is very happy about, but I just see prolonged boredom setting in as I only have 2 weeks off.

Milliways: You are so lucky. I am full of envy, we have just 6 weeks.

Nearly 8 weeks too arghhhhhh

MrsWeasley - I am not lucky - I only get 5 weeks a year, taking 2 this summer. Now DS - he IS lucky.....

I would love it if I was a SAHM though

no! ours is abnormally short actually. thankfully I realised just before i booked the first week in sept away, thinking oh they never go back in the first week!

end of july-beg september. think it's 5 weeks. how sucky

We finish on the 23rd July and go back on the 1st September.

30th of June to the first week in Sept. In N.I.

break up 23rd july but don't go back to 6th september.

Ours break up on the 16th July, but the term dates don't show what date they go back! Maybe never!

Have just looked at our dates: July 10th to Sept 6th so that is 8 weeks and a day. Lucky DS!

Thankfully, he is old enough to lie in bed until midday amuse himself.

Off on 23rd July back 2/3 September. Only problem we have is getting to the other end of the country for Wedding on 24th.

We're abroad too - 1st July to 1st September.

We had 8 wks at private school, but ours is short this year at 5.5 wks. We don't finish till 21st July.

But, I'm not going back in Sept cause I'll be on maternity leave, so I can't complain!

23rd july - 6 september

Not entirely sure as we are moving house but looks like term ends July 23rd and new one starts 1 September. That doesn't feel like very long.

Although maybe there will be training days.

Suppose also if you are in 6 term part of the country then you probably get a shorter summer holiday and longer ones at other times. There will be the same amount of days at (state) schools; it just differs when exactly they happen.

23rd July - 6th Sept exactly 6 weeks and we work on a three term system

We are 6 terms here,

29 June to September 6 (French school).

Six terms here, so five weeks plus the late August bank holiday.

10 weeks - mid June to end August.