Autumn Term 2025

Staff Development Day 1 – Monday 1st September 2025 – school closed to children

Staff Development Day 2 - Tuesday 2nd September 2025 - school closed to children

Start: Wednesday 3rd September 2025

Term Ends: Friday 17th October 2025

Half Term: Monday 20th October - Friday 24th October 2025

Staff Development Day 3 - Monday 27th October 2025 - school closed to children

Start: Tuesday 28th October 2025

Term Ends: Friday 19th December 2025

Christmas Holiday: Monday 22nd December – Friday 2nd January 2026

Spring Term 2026

Start: Monday 5th January 2026

Term Ends: Friday 13th February 2026

Half Term: Monday 16th February – Friday 20th February 2026

Start: Monday 23rd  February 2026

Term Ends: Thursday 2nd April 2026

Easter Holiday: Friday 3rd April – Friday 17th April 2026

Summer Term 2026

Start: Monday 20th April 2026

Bank Holiday: Monday 4th May 2026

Term Ends: Friday 22nd May 2026

Half Term: Monday 25th May – Friday 29th May 2026

Start: Monday 1st June 2026

Term Ends: Friday 17th July 2026 school closes at 1.30pm to children

Staff Development Day 4 – Monday 20th July 2026 – school closed to children

Staff Development Day 5 – Tuesday 21st July 2026 – school closed to children

Summer Holiday: Wednesday 22nd July – Monday 31st August 2026

Staff Development Days

Children are in school for 190 days a year and teachers for 195 days a year. The additional five days are for staff training. These can either be whole day training sessions when the school is closed to children or Twilight Training sessions, two of which total a Staff Development day. If two Twilights are taken, staff will then have the time off when one Staff Development day has been allocated. At Great Chart we look closely at the term dates to see when we can arrange training. We are also dependent on the availability for some guest speakers and trainers as to when we can arrange our development days. As with other schools, any Twilight Training sessions are in addition to our normal weekly staff meetings.

Staff Development Day 1 – Monday 1st September 2025

Staff Development Day 2 – Tuesday 2nd September 2025

Staff Development Day 3 – Monday 27th October 2025

Staff Development Day 4 – Monday 20th July 2026

Staff Development Day 5 – Tuesday 21st July 2026

Term date calendars for 2026/27 and onwards:

You can download a PDF version of the term dates for the future years directly from Kent County Council's website.