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Consultation on School Term Dates for 2006-2007 Academic Year (Archived Document)

Following the annual meeting of the School Term Dates Working Party, the following term and holiday dates are proposed for 2006/07.

Term Dates

Autumn (1)	Friday 1 September to Friday 20 October	36 days
Autumn (2)	Monday 30 October to Wednesday 20 December	38 days
Spring (1)	Wednesday 3 January to Friday 9 February	28 days
Spring (2)	Monday 19 February to Friday 30 March	30 days
Summer (1)	Monday 16 April to Friday 25 May	29 days
Summer (2)	Monday 4 June to Friday 20 July	35 days
		196 days

Holidays

October Half-term	Monday 23 October to Friday 27 October
Christmas	Thursday 21 December to Tuesday 2 January
February Half-term	Monday 12 February to Friday 16 February
Spring	Monday 2 April to Friday 13 April
Summer Half-term	Monday 28 May to Friday 1 June

These dates are based on the following principles which have been agreed by the teachers union’s representatives:

1. The Local Authority should set an “envelope” of 196 days to include 190 teaching days, 5 professional development days and 1 occasional day
2. The Spring holiday should be the first two full weeks in April
3. Half-term holidays should be full weeks
4. Half-terms should align as closely as possible with neighbouring Local Authorities
5. There should be as many full weeks in school as possible

We have also tried, wherever possible, to arrange for the Christmas holiday to include 2 full weeks and 3 weekends. However, the calendar for 2006/07 would mean that this would result in an extremely early finish (15 December) which would produce significant difficulties for schools and families. Consequently it is not proposed to adopt this principle for 2006/07 but it will be considered again for 2007/08. If you have any views on these dates will you please complete the online questionnaire. Thank you in anticipation of your response.

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