2/29/2008 8:07:00 AM
Irena Barker The TES: 29 February 2008
The earliest Easter since 1913 is playing havoc with school planning and teachers’ personal lives. Easter Sunday falls on March 23 this year. More than two-thirds of authorities will close schools over the public holiday and delay the two-week break until early April. But many are still taking their main break from Good Friday onwards and will face a longer, potentially exhausting, summer term. There are also concerns that a spring half-term of fewer than five weeks in some authorities will mean unruly pupils will barely settle back into work. One languages teacher at a Hertfordshire secondary said: “The school will never get into a rhythm. You can write off the first week and the last week of term. We will get very little done. “It’s going to feel like we’re cramming a lot of exam preparation into a very short space of time and I dread our 14-week summer term – the autumn term was 15 weeks and it almost killed me.”
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