Management Information Sheet
Consultation on school term and holiday dates for 2023/24
Local Authorities have a duty to set the school term dates for local authority maintained schools, such as community and voluntary controlled schools. Foundation, trust, voluntary aided schools and academies are responsible for setting their own term dates. In practice, most of the schools in Norfolk use the same term dates.
Schools must be open to pupils for 190 days in an academic year and 195 days for teachers. Home to school transport will be provided on the days the school is open to pupils.
Norfolk County Council works with other local authorities nearby to set proposed dates for an academic year - this is known as the Eastern Region Model Calendar. We do this because we feel it is better to have a co-ordinated approach to setting school term dates to minimise the impact on families and school transport providers.
Norfolk County Council is consulting on the proposed term and holiday dates for 2023 -2024. There are two options to consider.
One is based on the Eastern Region Model Calendar and the other is an alternative for Norfolk. If this alternative option is agreed following consultation, it would mean that we would have different dates than our neighbouring counties of Suffolk and Cambridgeshire, mainly at the start of the Spring term.
Proposed dates
A summary of the start and end of each term is outlined below. The half terms are the same in both options. Please note that these dates do not include the suggested staff training days.
Autumn Term
- Option A: 05/09/2023 - 22/12/2023
- Option B: 06/09/2023 - 20/12/2024
Spring Term
- Option A: 09/01/2024 - 28/03/2024
- Option B: 04/01/2024 - 27/03/2024
Summer Term
- Option A: 16/04/2024 - 19/07/2024
- Option B: 15/04/2024 - 19/07/2024
What happens next?
This consultation will close on 17 December 2021. The results of the consultation will be published on Norfolk County Council's Website in Spring 2022.
To view the calendars and comment please visit our survey at: https://norfolk.citizenspace.com/childrens-services/term-dates2023-2024.
Or email: schoolreview@norfolk.gov.uk.