Are you on half term?

[KMG]

Planning to do day trip to London on Friday, but NHM website said they expect to be busy, as it's half term. Our half term was last week. I would love to know who is or is not on half term, of those in London, or within easy reach. Ta

Well half term for the schools I know of in London was definitely last week.

Iam on half term now up here in Liverpool!

Some areas in London do have half term this week.

It's half-term time for us in sunny South London. KMG, I think some confusion over dates might arise if private schools have different holiday dates to state schools. Just a thought.

Lancashire was last week.
This is a very strange term!

Janh wereabouts in Lancashire are you?

Off the subject but does anyone know when Easter is this yr and when do the schools breakup for that.

We are on half term this week (Herts) my sisters two were last week, Sussex and Suffolk. It was crazy breaking up on the 8th Feb for half term , they only went back to school on the 10th Jan!

Our Easter hols are 22 March to 16th April. My DD has just got her National Insurance number, scary, she could leave school at Easter, but she's not, She's doing 10 GCSE's and going on to do Maths Physic, French and German A levels

The summer hols are the longest, break on 5th July and go back on 9th Sept!

Alibubbles, Thats just like my ds school. They always break up really early for summer to.

Alibubbles - is that a private school? seems quite long hols.

Yes Paula1, they are private schools. They also get two weeks at October half term, I'd rather it was this half term, so we could go skiing for longer. I always end up taking them off school for two days, naughty I know, I always get a snotty letter from the head, but I think, hang on a minute, I'm paying for their education and my daughter is a straight A student, but we go to Whistler in Canada and the flight is so long, you need the extra time.

Alibubbles! my son and dh are going to Whistler on March 2nd!!
They normally go to Chamonix.They do snowboarding though. I will stay at home with dd this time!!

Callie - Ribble Valley!
SueW's dates for Easter are the same as ours.
Half-term is a week later than usual this year, for the Jubilee - first week of June rather than last week of may - so the first half of next term will be 8 weeks, I think.

Callie, I hope they have a great time, we all love Whistler. DD(15) and DS(14) we have been going every year fro the last 8 years, sometimes twice a year. We have invested in a property out there. I sent my son to Austria this week on a last minute with PGL (the teen holiday specialists,) he is also going to Stowe at Easter with the school. Lucky thing will have skied 3 times this year!!

Judging by your latest news, you won't be skiing for a while, good luck with the new babe!

Thanks for all your responses! You're great.

Janh - yes next half term is 8 weeks .. that's ridicuous, the children will be shattered. I can't wait for this new system of six 'terms' of equal length, spread over the year, rather than letting Easter mess everything up.

Hey Alibubbles, We have been researching Whistler for our next ski hol (having just returned from this years one!!). I'm a North America Ski fan too, Colorado 9 times, Park City and Whistler once each. I did go to Whistler once in 1993 in the middle of Feb, and the only thing I can remember about it was that for 1 week of the 2 we had thick wet cloud on the mountain at the bottom, so you'd have snow at the top and rain at the bottom, so you would get absolutely soaked when you skiied down the mountain. Was I just unlucky or is this common there? Also, as ds is due to start prep school in Sep we're thinking that we'll have to go at Easter as he'll get 3 weeks off then - have you ever been as late as Easter? How is the snow and the weather then? I think that it has changed hugely since I went in 93 as I see that there are all different areas now, Upper Village, Creekside etc... Not sure where I stayed - it was called the Nancy Green Lodge but I think it has changed its name now? Have you ever used the child care there?

Ok some advice - don't go anywhere near South Kensington when ANYONE is on half term! We've been to the museums several times before - OK mostly before they were free, but always midweek. I have never seen anything like what we experienced on Friday - it was HEAVING. It was very hard to get my son to actually focus on anything, because it was so crowded, so busy, and so noisy! If you possibly can, go midweek - pre-schoolers can get a lot out of these museums - basement at the Science Museum is great fun, but I dread to think what it was like yesterday!