Reduce Length Of School Summer Holidays

It is probably impractical that there will be a full return to school before July. Given this, then I think the option should be that schools return on or around the 1st of August to allow additional time for pupils to refresh their learning and catch up to where they should be.

Why the contribution is important

Our children’s education is suffering and the approach to at home learning has not been consistent so it provides a chance to catch up.
In addition it will help our children’s social and mental health as they will be able to be in greater contact with their friends.

by StuartK5871 on May 07, 2020 at 06:54PM

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  • Posted by Eleeko May 07, 2020 at 19:27

    It's not the answer, they can attend school partly combined with interactive online learning.

  • Posted by ElaineColley May 07, 2020 at 21:33

    Teachers have been working throughout the lockdown providing work for their students. Realistically, schools won’t be able to start until the planned time in August. You can’t suddenly cancel the remainder of the holidays and start on 1st August. It would be better to focus on how to adapt schools and classrooms so that children can be educated in a safe environment and that teachers feel safe too. There’s no easy solution to this. Certainly, much smaller classes and enforcing the two metre rule should solve many discipline problems and allow children who are eager to learn, peace to do so without disruption.

  • Posted by owenc00 May 08, 2020 at 07:56

    I am sure many teachers would be open to the idea of at least discussing a change to the dates of school holidays, though not their total length. There will be some teachers who have a family holiday in the UK planned sometime in August, and they will want to keep to that plan and so wouldn't want to change; there will also be staff who are infected, or who live with others who are vulnerable and couldn't manage this. But, if pupils are at home anyway - doing online learning which is a poor alternative to real classroom teaching. - then starting "holidays" a few weeks earlier could be a great way to increase the total number of weeks of in-school teaching that pupils can receive in the coming school year.

  • Posted by highlander9203 May 08, 2020 at 08:53

    I know teachers have not had a lot of time off, but kids not been too school for weeks now and things are not going to be up and running before end of august so for this reason would cancel summer school holidays totally. They will still have holidays later in year.

  • Posted by EleanorM May 10, 2020 at 13:32

    There is no educational basis for our long summer break. It comes from the origins of Scottish schooling when most children went to the shielings for weeks on end in the summer and the schools had to close. Change is long overdue.
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