British School Holidays

WindSock

Sucks for them. They only get July off or something crap like that. Good for when I want to go on holidays though.

shenanigans1982

They don't even get it off they have to do work experience.

brummytom

I'm off next week for 7/8 weeks, we get 2 at easter, 2 at christmas, and another 1 at october and whitsun + 9 teacher days.

Latchy

It varies , in some schools it's 6 weeks, others 8 .

Dinter

WindSock wrote: »

Sucks for them. They only get July off or something crap like that. Good for when I want to go on holidays though.

It's amazing the sacrifices they're willing to make to a achieve a mediocre education.

WindSock

brummytom wrote: »

I'm off next week for 7/8 weeks, we get 2 at easter, 2 at christmas, and another 1 at october and whitsun + 9 teacher days.

What do we get?

Mid Term Break around Feb 1 week, Paddy's Day March, 2 at Easter (is it?) Mayday, July and August, Mid Term in Oct 1 week, 2 at Christmas.

Gone Drinking

WindSock wrote: »

What do we get?

Fondled

brummytom

WindSock wrote: »

What do we get?

Mid Term Break around Feb 1 week, Paddy's Day March, 2 at Easter (is it?) Mayday, July and August, Mid Term in Oct 1 week, 2 at Christmas.

Oh yeah forgot BankHolidays and 2 at Feburary

grenache

Why do British kids put up with this though? My aunt is a teacher in England and she says they prefer to have lots of days off around mid term and bank holidays, etc. I'd much prefer to have the full 2 and a half months off during the summer like Irish schools do.

WindSock

grenache wrote: »

Why do British kids put up with this though?

:pac:

They could go on strike.

Down with homework!

ejmaztec

They get extra holidays when they wind up science teachers and get their brains bashed out.

grenache

WindSock wrote: »

:pac:

They could go on strike.

Down with homework!

If they have relations in Cork they could get tips on how to go about it

Latchy

Dinter wrote: »

It's amazing the sacrifices they're willing to make to a achieve a mediocre education.

Medicore ....pfft :rolleyes:

TanG411

Isn't Canada worse?

They get like 3 weeks in the summer. And a break for Christmas. Maybe something for easter? And then about 3 teacher days off.

That's what I heard anyway :pac:

Ste.phen

Why do we still have 2 months off in the summer for schools?
Why not:
- Close 2 weeks at Xmas
- Close 4 weeks in summer (July maybe?)
- No other *defined* / mandatory breaks
- Spread out the curriculum and planning a bit so that teachers and students alike can take another 2 or 3 weeks off at time of their choosing somewhere in the middle?

That still gives teachers 8 weeks paid leave which i'm sure the rest of us Johnny-4-weeks would like, but c'est la vie

Run_to_da_hills

Irish kids have a great time, an average of three months off in the summer, free to doss, just like the Government :pac:

thelordofcheese

WindSock wrote: »

Sucks for them. They only get July off or something crap like that. Good for when I want to go on holidays though.

The do have shorter days, school for them finishes at about 3, i believe.

brummytom

thelordofcheese wrote: »

The do have shorter days, school for them finishes at about 3, i believe.

Half 3 in most schools as far as I know.

What's the normal schoolday over there?

thelordofcheese

brummytom wrote: »

Half 3 in most schools as far as I know.

What's the normal schoolday over there?

mine was 9-4 with an hour for lunch and about a half hour as 2 15min breaks either side of that.

brummytom

Oh that's still shorter really then :P

Mine's 8:55-3.30; 45 mins for Lunch and 15 minute break in the morning

red glitter

brummytom wrote: »

Oh that's still shorter really then :P

Mine's 8:55-3.30; 45 mins for Lunch and 15 minute break in the morning

Mine's 8:50-3:35; 1 hour for lunch and a ten minute break in the morning and we get off one class on friday because we are in ten minutes before most schools!

Alun

The shorter summer holidays in Britain were originally introduced as a fuel saving measure, i.e. increase the length of holidays when it's colder at Christmas and Easter and reduce them in the summer when it's warmer, and they save on fuel costs for heating the schools.

Latchy

Brit kids have winter breaks to , usually two seperate weeks of .

January

Isn't it three months off in the summer for secondary schools??? In my school we started at 8.50am, had a 20 minute break at 11.20am, then lunch from 1-2pm and off at 4pm. Except for Wednesdays where we got a half day, off at 12.20pm .

WindSock

brummytom wrote: »

Oh that's still shorter really then :P

Mine's 8:55-3.30; 45 mins for Lunch and 15 minute break in the morning

Mine was 9-3.30, i 15 min break and 1 hour for lunch.

Finished at 2.50 on Wed & Fri.

So we still win :P

Noffles

My son is in his second year of secondary education and I have to say I despise this long summer holiday that he gets, as I'm born and bred British I think it's daft really... Bloody kids forget everything by the time they've gone back... just dossing around doing nowt for three months!!

lawhec

The break up of schools for holiday periods differs around the UK.

England's already been covered pretty much, in general break up on the third week of July and return on the first week of September.

In Scotland I believe they break up on the last week of June and return on the third week of August.

Here in N.I. we have longer summer breaks than in Britain, breaking up on the last week of June (or really once internal summer term exams had finished which was usually the third week of June) and returning on the first weekday of September.

In my time as a school kid up here, the summer holidays were around 8-9 weeks long, Christmas varied, at its longest two weeks but other times as late as 22nd December and back on the first weekday after 2nd January. Easter is a half-day on Holy Thursday and back the Monday after Easter Monday. There's also half-term breaks, the autumn term (being the longest) used to last a week but my old school only had a three day break this year, the breaks for the Spring and Summer terms were two days each.

milly4ever

always had to wait weeks after we got our holidays for the childrens' tv programmes to start!

brummytom

WindSock wrote: »

Mine was 9-3.30, i 15 min break and 1 hour for lunch.

Finished at 2.50 on Wed & Fri.

So we still win :P

You bastards/bitches :(

S'pose you deserve the extra holidays, 800 years worth.

Oh and I skived Work Experience todayy

MagicMarker

I can't remember how much time I got off in the UK.

We did have hot dinners for lunch though, so screw you all and your peasant ways.

jigglywoo

I hate summer holidays.

I have four months off this summer which is way too long. I've been bored and jobless from day one and pining for college.
I wish college was on during the summer

TPD

College holidays are where its at. I think over the last two years I've had 5 months holidays each year. A month and a half-ish at Christmas (broken up by a few individual days of tests), a week at Halloween, two weeks at easter, and 3.5ish months for summer.

College rules!

mink_man

well it mustnt rule if your glad to be out of it for 5 months!

Pygmalion

Larkin501 wrote: »

Isn't Canada worse?

They get like 3 weeks in the summer. And a break for Christmas. Maybe something for easter? And then about 3 teacher days off.

That's what I heard anyway :pac:

Friend (e-friend that is) of mine is Canadian and finished the 19th June (I remember it was just a few hours after my Leaving ended), they start again in September so they got over 2 months.

jackbutler

I'm in Year 11 so i've already had 4 weeks holiday, 6 more to come