How does term time only work in your company?

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Interviewed for a new role and mentioned term time only would be great for me when we were chatting about hours. I was hoping but not expecting them to accommodate this if I was offered the role.

They've called today to offer me the job and said they are looking into tt (and seemed quite positive) but they don't generally offer this and tbh I've not experienced it before. They've asked me to have a think about how it would look for me.

Just wondering in other businesses is it literally all school hols including half terms or just the main ones. Does it mean you never take holidays outside of schools hols (not a problem as its flexi time, just wondering).

I'm guessing in terms of pay the monthly amount split equally over 12 payments - is this generally from the get go? I would be starting for a month or so then off for the summer.

I'm very excited but would love to hear how it works for other people. They seem to be happy to be led by my preferences so I thought it would be a good idea to get any different perspectives before the contract is written up.

I work term time only. I work 39 weeks a year, do all school holidays off. My pay is averaged out over the 12 months. It does mean I have no annual leave to take the rest of the year but it works fine for me.

At mine you have to apply for which weeks you want at the beginning of the financial year and it's approved on business need. So you can't actually have all school hols.

We also do a variation of that where you can pick set weeks - for instance I just approved one where the person wanted 4 separate weeks over Easter, summer and one half term as their TTO arrangement.

Don't forget you'll still accumulate annual leave entitlement for the weeks that you work.
Sounds like they'd be pretty flexible so think about what you want.
You could have all the school holidays off and your A/leave entitlement
You could do fewer non contracted weeks and combine a/leave so say oct half term/feb/Easter is paid leave leave but Xmas/ summer hols/spring break is unpaid. (Depends if they'd gurantee your leave dates to be in the school holidays)
I've done all sorts of combos over the years.
Kids are grown up now but I still take 3 weeks non contracted and get my pay averaged over 12 months.

Just wondering in other businesses is it literally all school hols including half terms or just the main ones. Does it mean you never take holidays outside of schools hols (not a problem as its flexi time, just wondering)

We can choose which. Either just the long summer holidays (ours are very long) or all the holidays or somewhere in between. It's basically individually tailored. You still retain your annual leave allowance to scale on your working hours (so if you have 20% of the year off on TTO, you have 80% of your annual leave.