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:
Autumn half-term 2021 Thursday 21st October, 2021 Tuesday 2nd November, 2021
Christmas 2021 Friday 17th December, 2021 Tuesday 4th January, 2022
Spring half-term 2022 Friday 18th February, 2022 Tuesday 1st March 2022
Easter 2022 Friday 8th April, 2022 Monday 25th April, 2022
May day 2022 Friday 29th April, 2022 Tuesday 3rd May, 2022
Summer half-term 2022 Thursday 26th May, 2022 Tuesday 7th June, 2022
Summer 2022 Thursday 21st July, 2022 To be confirmed
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.
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