School holidays - how many a year?

[Blossom8]

Just curious as my DD is starting school next September as to how many weeks holiday a year children get in state and private schools? Are they more or less the same?

State in England, usually (different in some areas): half term of one week in the middle of each term, two weeks for both of Christmas and Easter/Spring break, about six weeks in the summer, plus bank holidays and 5 INSET days. Private get more, and you seem to get more the posher the private, eg. Girls Schools Trust less than Public schools.

Whilst private schools generally have longer holidays it does depend on whether they have boarding schools or not.

My friend's boy is a day pupil at a mixed day/boarding school and he gets 4 weeks at Chrismas and 8 or 9 weeks in the Summer

State school pupils have 190 days (give or take a Jubilee!) and teachers work 195 (those 5 days being the inset teacher training days).

Private school holidays are usually longer (much longer, if boarding). You'd need to check with the school if you want a specific comparison.

State school children have 13 weeks holiday-as an earlier poster wrote, they are at school for 190 days.

Private schools have longer holidays and the one round here always finishes the term at lunchtime on a Thursday rather than 3.30 on the Friday!

DD has 15 weeks in a private school but the school runs holiday care that virtually all pupils attend for 4 weeks so 11 weeks childcare to cover (I have 5 weeks annual leave)

But DD's school doesn't seem to have the random inset days eg a Monday tacked onto halfterm or 2pm finish last day of term (with 2 days notice) which I am grateful for.

Thanks everyone. There seems to be alot of holiday - will be difficult as I work full time with only 5 weeks holiday a year. Guess I have to rely on the holiday clubs

Or find a CM who does holidays. Also beware that some holiday clubs are far more expensive than others.

It's more difficult to access affordable holiday care when they are younger - some schemes near us wont take until 5 and the cheaper council run stuff until age 8.

A lot of holiday care is also school hours only.

Definitely start keeping your eyes and ears open now - a lot seems word of mouth. If you are looking for after school activities then see if they offer holiday care eg my DD's dance school and gymnastics run holiday care.

DSs private school have about 16 weeks hols a year but is open for holiday club for all holidays except 2 weeks at xmas I believe.