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CarmelitaMiggs · 12/02/2010 18:17

How far in advance are these announced at your children's school? Do you, for instance, already know the start date for the autumn term and half term?

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ChasingSquirrels · 12/02/2010 18:24

no not yet.
I phoned and asked in about Apr/May last year and they weren't sorted as it depended on what training days they had.

Nymphadora · 12/02/2010 18:41

County puts ours out about 18m ahead but schools vary INSETs slightly

Feenie · 12/02/2010 18:51

Google your LEA and term dates, and you should find it. Inset days are announced by individual schools.

joe999 · 12/02/2010 18:54

We have just been issued all holiday dates ffrom now until end of school year 2011!! but they have never been this organised before!!

Usually we get the full year dates for the following year just before they finish for the summer hols.

NoahAndTheWhale · 12/02/2010 20:27

The LEA will have a basic list although schools have more flexibility on the 5 (I think) INSET days.

There used to be a link on the direct gov website where you could get to school term dates for all the LEAs which was useful.

NoahAndTheWhale · 12/02/2010 20:28

Here it is

CarmelitaMiggs · 12/02/2010 22:28

Thanks all. It's the inset days which are causing the problems at our end. Was interested to find out what happens elsewhere.

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LIZS · 13/02/2010 09:56

We provisionally know up to Summer 2011

WeNeedToLeaveInFiveMinutes · 13/02/2010 10:01

I know main dates for next school year but INSET days have yet to be arranged. We get a lot of notice for these, usually more than a term.

hifi · 13/02/2010 11:49

my dd only haS 5 weeks 2 days for the summer hols

NoahAndTheWhale · 13/02/2010 17:25

Are you somewhere with a 6 term school year hifi?

hifi · 13/02/2010 18:05

we wernt last year, they had 7 weeks off. will have a good look at the whole year.

NoahAndTheWhale · 13/02/2010 18:55

You should have the same overall amount of holiday so might have two weeks somewhere when most people have one week maybe?

megapixels · 13/02/2010 23:16

Though they don't announce it as such they do have tentative dates well in advance. I asked the school last week the dates of the Christmas holidays 2010 and the receptionist looked it up for me in some document.

providentielle · 13/02/2010 23:24

Just checked school website for kids I look after and dates are listed until summer hols 2011!

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