15 March 2007

 

 Dear Parents

Calendar : 2007 – 2008

 

I write with details of the Calendar for 2007 – 2008.  There will be:

 

Teaching Days

180

 

 

 

 

Community Days (Sports Day, Swimming Gala, International Day)

  

   3

Student days

183

 

 

Staff inset

   2

plus necessary preparation days in August

 

The Board was keen for educational reasons that the calendar should not expose students to excessively long periods without a break and that parental needs were considered, which we did through the questionnaire.  You may be interested to know that there were approximately 250 returns, the key points being: 

 

o       over 90% of parents agreed with the overall number of days;

o       98% of parents were happy with the two week Christmas/Eid closure;

o       74% of parents were happy with the two week closure at Easter.  Some wanted a shorter break; some wanted a shorter break and earlier closure in the summer; some wanted a longer break.

 

We believe that the attached calendar meets the above criteria.  The principal

difficulty this year is the early Easter which means a fairly long haul afterwards

to the mid term break, which can only be in the w/c 26 May 08 because that is

the only week free of the UK GCSE, AS and A2 examinations. 

 

With Best Wishes.

 

 

John Lawson

Principal