Which council areas do 1/2 day finish on Friday?

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Thinking of moving for work, and trying to weigh up pro's and con's.

I know some councils (Edinburgh, East/West Lothian) do 1/2 day Fridays - but is that all? Are there others?

I will need childcare so it's an important factor.

Perth & Kinross.

Thanks, hadn't realised that.

I'd thought maybe Borders too?

Highlands

North lanarkshire secondary schools finish at 12.30pm on Fridays but have various activities and clubs that you can attend voluntarily on a Friday afternoon

Borders do.

Falkirk are apparently considering it

Midlothian do half day Friday too.

Examples of clubs available at my dcs school on a Friday afternoon. My ds never stays for them

Fife but not all schools

Oh gosh, there don't seem to be many in the East/Central belt who aren't off.

Angus but secondary only.

Once at high school not that many use childcare anymore.

You will struggle to find any.

Stirling don't.

Thanks for all the responses, so helpful

Only one school that I know of in Perth and Kinross are off on Friday afternoons - Kinross High School. The Perth secondary (and all P and K primary) schools are in school all day on Fridays.

Moray
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(Secondary not primary)

@boobashka guess which school my kids went to, I just assumed it was a county wide policy like the two weeks October break.

@Wbeezer 😁 I did wonder if that might be the case 😉

I'm so surprised that there's variation even within councils. - I thought all schools within a council area would follow the same pattern.

Falkirk have been considering it but it seems to be off the table again for this year at least.

I think all schools have to provide a certain amount of teaching, but from what I can see they have quite a bit of freedom how they structure their breaks. I certainly know of schools shortening the day by 15 min or reducing the Friday by nearly 1 hr. Often without much notice.

It's only secondaries in Moray that do this, primaries don't.

Fife for secondary schools. Primary schools do the full day.

My Dd teaches in Fife in a Primary. Her class are in 9-3 every day. However my school in Edinburgh is in 8.50 to 2.40 for P1/2 and 3.10 for P3-7. I'm not sure of Friday's hours as I'm rarely in on a Friday.

I think P1/2 need to be taught for 22.5 hours a week and 5)3 rest for 25 hours a week. So her school have an hour for lunch but we only get about 40 minutes for lunch. Hence why Edinburgh can do a half day. It was initially brought in for teacher training and that's when courses used to run before covid.

Years ago a school I worked in gave children 1hr 15 minutes for lunch and it was a struggle to get children to come back in to class and settle for the afternoon.

Seemingly after August , Falkirk schools going to 1215 finish
Two teachers have told me this