Reference
E/PM9/1/1
Title
Correspondence file on dates of school holidays, including information as follows:
Date free text
1966 - 1983
Production date
From: 1966 To: 1983
Scope and Content
- alteration of holiday dates to fit in with holiday dates of local firms [1966];
- correspondence with local firms to discover the dates of their annual Summer breaks - firms consulted comprise: Vauxhall Motors, Luton; Commer Cars Ltd., Luton; AC-Delco, Dunstable; Thermo Plastics Ltd, Dunstable; Cross Paperware Ltd, Dunstable; Waterlow & Sons Ltd, Printers & Stationers, Dunstable; and Associated Portland Cement Manufacturers Ltd, Dunstable [1967];
- dates of school holidays [1967-1983];
- answers to Department of Education & Science questionnaire on practice of deciding holiday dates [1968];
- disagreements by individual schools with Education Committee decisions on holiday dates and suggestions of their own [1971-1983];
- disagreements by professional bodies and parents with Education Committee decisions on holiday dates and suggestions of their own [1971-1983];
- report of Area 9 Headteachers’ Working Group on holidays [1972];
- Circular from Chief Education Officer forbidding headteachers to allow children home early on the last day of term [1972];
- possibility of holidays for Roman Catholic schools to coincide with visit of Pope John Paul II [1982];
- difficulties of paying part-time non-teaching staff in a school year with 189 days instead of 190 [1982];
- concern of teaching unions of changing of dates of holidays some months after they were initially published [1982];
- considerable correspondence regarding Roman Catholic Diocese of Northampton’s dislike at having Roman Catholic schools open on 6 Jan (Feast of Epiphany) and Cardinal Newman Roman Catholic High School, Luton changing its term dates to avoid this [1982].
Level of description
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