Term Dates 2025/26
Autumn Term 2025
Term starts: Monday 01 September 2025
Half Term holiday: Monday 27 October 2025 to Friday 31 October 2025
Term ends: Friday 19 December 2025
Spring Term 2026
Term starts: Monday 05 January 2026
Half Term holiday: Monday 16 February 2026 to Friday 20 February 2026
Term ends: Friday 27 March 2026
Summer Term 2026
Term starts: Monday 13 April 2026
Half Term holiday: Monday 25 May 2026 to Friday 29 May 2026
Term ends: Monday 20 July 2026
Inset Days 2025/26
Monday 01st September 2025
Tuesday 02nd September 2025
Friday 20th March 2026
Friday 26th June 2026
Monday 20th July 2026
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.