School term and date calendar

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School year 2011/2012

Term	Term starts	Term ends	Holidays
Term 1 2011	Thursday 01/09/11	Wednesday 19/10/11	Thursday 20/10/11 - Friday 28/10/11
Term 2 2011	Monday 31/10/11	Friday 16/12/11	Monday 19/12/11 - Monday 02/01/12
Term 3 2012	Tuesday 03/01/12	Friday 10/02/12	Monday 13/02/12 - Friday 17/02/12
Term 4 2012	Monday 20/02/12	Friday 30/03/12	Monday 02/04/12 - Friday 13/04/12
Term 5 2012	Monday 16/04/12	Friday 01/06/12	Monday 04/06/12 - Friday 08/06/12
Term 6 2012	Monday 11/06/12	Monday 23/07/12	Tuesday 24/07/12 - Friday 31/08/12

• Term-date calendar 2011/2012 136kb

School year 2012/2013

Term	Term starts	Term ends	Holidays
Term 1 2012	Monday 03/09/12	Wednesday 24/10/12	Thursday 25/10/12 - Friday 02/11/12
Term 2 2012	Monday 05/11/12	Friday 21/12/12	Monday 24/12/12 - Friday 04/01/13
Term 3 2013	Monday 07/01/13	Friday 08/02/13	Monday 11/02/13 - Friday 15/02/13
Term 4 2013	Monday 18/02/13	Friday 22/03/13	Monday 25/03/13 - Friday 05/04/13
Term 5 2013	Monday 08/04/13	Friday 24/05/13	Monday 27/05/13 - Friday 31/05/13
Term 6 2013	Monday 03/06/13	Wednesday 24/07/13	Thursday 25/07/13 - Friday 30/08/13

• Term-date calendar 2012/2013 124kb

Staff Development Days

In Wiltshire, all five Staff Development Days (or the equivalent of 30 hours) are set at the individual school's discretion. Your child's school will be able to inform you of their arrangements for taking these training days and a list of individual school dates are included on the schools directory directory page. All days will be taken within the 195 published term days.

When can your child leave school?

A pupil continues to be of statutory school age up until the finish of the day on the last Friday in June each year, regardless of whether that pupil attains the age of 16 before that date. Only then does that pupil cease to be of compulsory school age. This law covers all pupils.

Until the last Friday in June in the school year in which children reach the age of 16:

• parents must ensure that they receive full-time education;
• LAs must provide them with suitable education;
• employers may not employ them and neither may training providers provide them with full-time Government-sponsored training.

Pupils do not have to remain on the school site up to that date. Work experience, educational visits, link courses and similar provisions by a school would fall within the category of an approved educational activity and would not count as an absence. Study leave may be granted which would be regarded as an authorised absence.

Last updated: 2 September 2011