School letters, term dates and dress-up days
Understand school terms, special days and letters home.
When do you break up for Christmas?
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Term dates5
- When do you break up?When does term finish before the holidays?
- It's an INSET day on MondayStaff training day, also called a 'training day'.
- It's half term next weekA one-week break mid-term, usually late October, mid-February and late May.
- We go back on the 5thThe day school restarts after a holiday.
- Sports day's been moved because of the weatherThe summer-term outdoor races.
Dress-up days4
- It's non-uniform on Friday. Bring a pound for charityKids wear their own clothes and bring a small donation.
- It's World Book Day. He needs to dress up as a characterEarly March.
- It's Christmas jumper day on FridayDecember charity day.
- It's harvest festival. They're asking for tinsAutumn assembly, common in primaries.
Forms and the app4
Rules and money2
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- Part of Talk's themed British life packs. Talk wrote each phrase with what it really means, when to say it, what not to say instead and one quiz question. A phrase gets a moment only if Talk's spoken videos say it with the same meaning. One review picked each moment, and a second tried to reject it. This pack holds 15 phrases.
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