Term Dates 2024/25
Autumn Term 2024
Term starts: Monday 02 September 2024
Half Term holiday: Monday 28 October 2024 to Friday 01 November 2024
Term ends: Friday 20 December 2024
Spring Term 2025
Term starts: Monday 06 January 2025
Half Term holiday: Monday 17 February 2025 to Friday 21 February 2025
Term ends: Friday 11 April 2025
Summer Term 2025
Term starts: Monday 28 April 2025
Half Term holiday: Monday 26 May 2025 to Friday 30 May 2025
Term ends: Monday 21 July 2025
Inset Days 2024/25
Monday 02nd September 2024
Tuesday 03rd September 2024
Friday 29th November 2024
Friday 27th June 2025
Monday 21st July 2025
Planned absence Policy
Is it worth it?
Parents are still requesting to take their child(ren) out of school during term time for various reasons including family holidays.
All absences cause considerable disruption to a child’s learning and prevent them from achieving the grades that they have the potential to reach. As a consequence, examination grades will be lower than those predicted for your child.
Younger children also suffer from break-in friendship groups when absent from school and this can result in anxiety on return their return to school.
Therefore:
- We will not authorise any planned absence taken in school time unless this is for an authorised sporting or educational visit.
- We will forward all absences of 4 days or over to the Educational Welfare Officer.
- The only exception to this will be for students in Year 7 or 8
- where the headteacher decides there are exceptional circumstances
and
- those students have over 96% attendance (and will remain above 96% after the planned absence). This is the equivalent of no more than 7½ days of absence in an academic year.
- Any absence which lasts for 20 consecutive days may result in the student(s) being removed from the school roll.
I would therefore ask that all parents accommodate their planned absence during the 13 weeks available to them during the school year and I thank those parents who do not make requests of this kind recognizing that they are clearly most disruptive to their child(ren)s learning.
We are working in partnership with the Educational Welfare Officer to whom we forward all unauthorised absences. Parent(s) could be fined up to £2,500 and/or sentenced to 3 months imprisonment. The parent(s) may alternatively be subject to a fixed-penalty fine of £60 per child per parent.