A FINAL decision is expected on a review into the ditching the traditional six week summer holidays following claims many headteachers knew nothing of the plan.
Council bosses gave the go-ahead in March to abandon the six week break for council-controlled schools in favour of having four weeks and four days in the summer and an extra week in October, with the change coming into force in the September 2017/18 academic year.
It represents a radical shift in the timetable for the borough’s schools, a structure which has remained largely unchanged since Victorian times.
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