Holidays and In Service days for the academic years: 2026/27, 2027/28 and 2028/29

Overview

The Council is seeking your views on the school holidays and In Service days for future academic years 2026/27  to 2028/29; ending June 2029. 

The purpose of this consultation is to set out our proposal for the school holiday/closure dates for the next 3 years from 2025/26.

When reviewing the school holidays we have followed the following key principles:

• Alignment of holidays across all schools as much as possible whilst allowing some flexibility for individual local festivals
• Adding casual holidays and in-service days onto existing school closures
• Allowing a full two weeks at Christmas and Easter
• Creating consistency by always positioning the February holiday as the second full week in February, Easter holiday in the first two full weeks in April and the October holiday in the second full week of October
• If the Easter holiday does not cover Good Friday, we have added this in as a separate holiday date.
• Pupil entitlement is to 190 days of education per academic year
• Staff should have 5 in-service days per academic year

Clck here to see current Term, holiday and closure dates. (Opens in new window)