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Revision to Bristol City Council School Term Dates 2021/2022
Decision Maker: Director: Education and Skills
Decision status: For Determination
Is Key decision?: No
Is subject to call in?: No
Purpose:
In England, local authority maintained schools
must open for 195 days. Of these a maximum of 190 days, or the
equivalent time, should be spent teaching children and young
people. The remaining 5 days are non-teaching (INSET) days.
For the 2021/2022 academic year, in acknowledgement of the
additional Bank Holiday for the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee on
3rd June 2022, the Department for Education (DfE) has agreed to
reduce the minimum number of teaching days to 189 meaning the total
school year will be 194 days. This requires a change to the
previously published school term dates.
The decision was made following discussion and co-ordination with
Local Authorities in South West England, including neighbouring
LAs; Bath and North East Somerset, South Gloucestershire and North
Somerset. Discussions focused on allowing schools adequate time to
prepare and to offer in minimum disruption to school calendars,
particularly during a time when schools will be timetabling summer
activities, including exams.
Decision:
As the 3rd June falls within the current
summer half term holiday, set by BCC, the additional bank holiday
will be taken by schools on what would have been the final day of
the school year, meaning the school year will now end on Thursday
21st July 2022.
Term dates will run as follows:
Term 1 Thursday 2 September 2021 to Friday 22 October 2021
Term 2 Monday 1 November 2021 to Friday 17 December 2021
Term 3 Tuesday 4 January 2022 to Friday 18 February 2022
Term 4 Monday 28th February 2022 to Friday 8th April 2022
Term 5 Monday 25 April 2022 to Friday 27 May 2022
Term 6 Monday 6 June 2022 to Thursday 21 July 2022
Alternative options considered:
None.
Publication date: 13/09/2021
Date of decision: 23/08/2021