School holidays

cloud · Jul 17, 2016

So Brighton Council is giving all school children an extra week off during October half term, so the parents can afford off-peak holidays

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...lidays/ar-BBuoYhU?li=BBoPOOl&ocid=mailsignout

Apart from the fact that it is grey and wintery at the end of October and not every one will want to take time off then ..

Parents will now have to take five days annual leave for the extra week, or pay £200-600 a week for holiday childcare

So now everyone will be worse off financially, plus all children will miss out on a week's lessons.

Genius move there by the council

clippedgull · Jul 17, 2016

If this catches on over the country, all the holiday companies will do is up their prices for that week as well! Brighton Council is run by loons!

Magic Sponge · Jul 17, 2016

cloud said:
So now everyone will be worse off financially, plus all children will miss out on a week's lessons.

Genius move there by the council

From what I understand children will not miss any schooling as they will reduce some of the other school holidays to make up the five days.

Theatre of Trees · Jul 17, 2016

cloud said:
So Brighton Council is giving all school children an extra week off during October half term, so the parents can afford off-peak holidays

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...lidays/ar-BBuoYhU?li=BBoPOOl&ocid=mailsignout

It is not extra all they've done is reshuffle the dates adding a week in October and regaining those five days around September, Christmas and Easter

cloud said:
Apart from the fact that it is grey and wintery at the end of October and not every one will want to take time off then ..

Parents will now have to take five days annual leave for the extra week, or pay £200-600 a week for holiday childcare

So now everyone will be worse off financially, plus all children will miss out on a week's lessons.

Genius move there by the council

October can be grey but it can also be nice, I remember watching the veteran cars come in from London in blazing hot weather last autumn, and that was the first weekend in November. As this year has shown summer isn't a guarentee of sunny weather either.

The other points you make are nonsense as the days have been taken from elsewhere.

drew · Jul 17, 2016

Case of someone not reading the whole story!!!!

The Clamp · Jul 17, 2016

Just the other day I was sitting there saying to a mate " Mate, you know what I reckon kids could really use? A bit more time off school. 16 weeks just doesn't seem enough somehow".

FS

edna krabappel · Jul 17, 2016

cloud said:
So Brighton Council is giving all school children an extra week off during October half term, so the parents can afford off-peak holidays

http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknew...lidays/ar-BBuoYhU?li=BBoPOOl&ocid=mailsignout

Apart from the fact that it is grey and wintery at the end of October and not every one will want to take time off then ..

Parents will now have to take five days annual leave for the extra week, or pay £200-600 a week for holiday childcare

So now everyone will be worse off financially, plus all children will miss out on a week's lessons.

Genius move there by the council

Bloody hell. They try to do something to help people, and you moan about it.

Is there anything else you'd like them to do to make your life easier? It's probably grey and wintery for the standard week in October when they already get time off, but I don't see you complaining.

Gwylan · Jul 17, 2016

Theatre of Trees said:
The other points you make are nonsense as the days have been taken from elsewhere.

Well no. My wife will still have to take an extra week's (unpaid) annual leave, no matter how nice the weather is, that's a bit of a financial hit.

beorhthelm · Jul 17, 2016

why didnt they just shift the holiday one week later, same effect for holiday prices (as long as no on else does it), same amount of time off for required parents?

Hampster Gull · Jul 17, 2016

The consequences of brxit are never ending. Shame on them

studio150 · Jul 17, 2016

edna krabappel said:
Bloody hell. They try to do something to help people, and you moan about it.

Is there anything else you'd like them to do to make your life easier? It's probably grey and wintery for the standard week in October when they already get time off, but I don't see you complaining.

The whole point from the Council was to assist parents. If you work where your holiday time is set by the employer, this has no effect on you at all.
If you can not afford a foreign holiday, then this second week in October will probably cost you more anyway. The odds are that the weather will be poorer than at the times from where the 5 days have been taken, so the changes of taking the children out for free are reduced, due to the weather, which will mean paying from trips to the cinema, and elsewhere.
Also given dynamic pricing by on line tour companies, the flight and holiday prices will rise.
At least the Albion may get a few more youngsters to the home Wolves game as this in the half term period.

BensGrandad · Jul 17, 2016

It was in the radio a couple of weeks ago that somewhere in Devon is doing similar in June just by putting the inset days into 1 block. Also it saves a lot of money for the council by extending a holiday in winter by reducing the heating costs.

Murray 17 · Jul 17, 2016

The Clamp said:
16 weeks just doesn't seem enough somehow".

FS

It's the law that children must go to school for 190 days a year. I make that 38 weeks, and 14 weeks of holiday. Sorry for being pedantic! [emoji10]

drew · Jul 17, 2016

studio150 said:
The whole point from the Council was to assist parents. If you work where your holiday time is set by the employer, this has no effect on you at all.
If you can not afford a foreign holiday, then this second week in October will probably cost you more anyway. The odds are that the weather will be poorer than at the times from where the 5 days have been taken, so the changes of taking the children out for free are reduced, due to the weather, which will mean paying from trips to the cinema, and elsewhere.
Also given dynamic pricing by on line tour companies, the flight and holiday prices will rise.
At least the Albion may get a few more youngsters to the home Wolves game as this in the half term period.

Are there many people where their holidays are set by the employer? I know there are some engineering firms that have shutdowns so as to carry out annual maintenance but that doesn't account for all of someone's holiday.

drew · Jul 17, 2016

Gwylan said:
Well no. My wife will still have to take an extra week's (unpaid) annual leave, no matter how nice the weather is, that's a bit of a financial hit.

I think you might need to explain a bit more. Does your wife work at a school in a different area whose holiday period is different?

Notters · Jul 17, 2016

Bloody nice in southern Spain in October.

BensGrandad · Jul 17, 2016

drew said:
Are there many people where their holidays are set by the employer? I know there are some engineering firms that have shutdowns so as to carry out annual maintenance but that doesn't account for all of someone's holiday.

My youngest son works for a building company who do a lot of school work so he is not permitted to take any holiday during school holidays and he has 3 school age children

Hillian1 · Jul 17, 2016

Notters said:
Bloody nice in southern Spain in October.

Not if it's full of kids it won't be.

Stumpy Tim · Jul 17, 2016

My kids already get a two week half-term in October, and it's a royal pain in the AR5E.

Bozza · Jul 17, 2016

Stumpy Tim said:
My kids already get a two week half-term in October, and it's a royal pain in the AR5E.

You could have stuck them in a state school and saved yourself thousands of pounds a year, but Brighton Council have ****ed that right up for you now.

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