Please visit the Durham County Council website to view or download the school holidays dates for this academic year and next year for all community schools, special schools and voluntary controlled schools. Please note that voluntary aided (church) schools, foundation schools and academies may have set different dates and you should check with the school or academy to confirm their arrangements or view the PDF for schools not following the standard term and holiday dates.
Holiday Dates
Holiday School closes at end of: Re-opens:
SLP Training Day Thursday 29th September, 2022 Monday 3rd October, 2022
Autumn half-term 2022 Friday 21st October, 2022 Monday 31st October, 2022
Christmas 2022 Tuesday 20th December, 2022 Wednesday 4th January, 2023
Spring half-term 2023 Friday 17th February, 2023 Tuesday 28th February, 2023
Easter 2023 Friday 31st March, 2023 Monday 17th April, 2023
May Day 2023 Friday 28th April, 2023 Tuesday 2nd May, 2023
King's coronation Friday 5th May, 2023 Tuesday 9th May, 2023
Summer half-term Thursday 25th May, 2023 Monday 5th June, 2023
Summer 2023 Friday 21st July, 2023 Wednesday 6th September, 2023
School Holidays During Term Time
The Government has amended regulations for taking holidays in term time and these new regulations came into effect from September 2013.
Head teachers have the discretion to grant leave, but they should only do so in exceptional circumstances. If a head teacher grants a leave request, it will be for them to determine the length of time that the child can be away from school. This leave is unlikely, however, to be granted for the purposes of a family holiday. For any leave to be granted it would need to be exceptional circumstances and current attendance (or in the first term of the year, the previous year’s attendance) be at least satisfactory which the government states is 96% or above.
Parents can be fined for taking their child on holiday during term time without consent from the school.
Please contact the school if you wish to discuss this with the Headteacher.
