Inset day Monday 5th November

[Booldawg]

I always thought inset days were a local arrangement. A girl at work lives about 25 miles away and her sons school also has the same inset day.

Would be interested in hearing from anyone in the South to see how many counties have this day off?

I ask because we were going to go to somewhere like Thorpe Park and hopefully not queue as long if alot of kids are at school that day.

[factor-fiction]

Some schools were off last week and had yesterday as an Inset day; but I think most are off next week instead, particularly in the South. Of those that are off next week some may have an Inset day but I doubt many will because the term is fairly short.

[boxtops]

What's an inset day, I have never heard the expression?

[factor-fiction]

Sorry- I was forgetting this week has started already! Here is what I should have said:

Some schools were off last week and had yesterday as an Inset day; but I think most are off THIS week instead, particularly in the South. Of those that are off THIS week some may have an Inset day but I doubt many will because the term is fairly short.

[EvianBaby]

Teachers training Boxy.

Although I initially read it as insest day! eeekkk.

[factor-fiction]

Used to be called Baker Days.
It's an In service Training Day. (I think that's what Inset is short for)
It's an extra day teachers have to go in when the pupils are off. The number of days off for students hasn't changed

[boxtops]

So what's the difference between an inset day and a Baker day? and why can't get go back to getting their training during the school holidays, like we did?

[LDC134]

One of the Havant schools has an inset day on the 5th, if that helps

[factor-fiction]

>So what's the difference between an inset day and a Baker day? and why can't get go back to getting their training during the school holidays, like we did?

A Baker day was, as you'll remembe, a reference to Kenneth Baker in the 1980s. I don't know when the term was dropped but as the government has changed twice since then i'm not surprised.
Inset days are generally done in the holidays- the one on 5th November will be the last day of the half term break (week+ 1 day) for the students.

[joeluke]

My sons school had inset day last Friday, funny how they always tend to bolt them on to half term isn't it?

Any teacher training should be incorporated into their meagre 13 weeks a year holidays, why should working parents have the extra expense of childcare on these days? I'd love to see how much actual 'training' goes on on these days

[factor-fiction]

It is taken in the teachers' holidays Joe- that's why the teachers are in school and the pupils are off.

And when they're not bolted on to half term we get questions on here from parents saying how inconvenient it is to have to cover an odd day.

Students still get the prescribed number of days in school.

[joeluke]

but half term always used to be a week long not a week and a day

Why can't this training take place during the annual 7 week summer siesta?

[factor-fiction]

>I'd love to see how much actual 'training' goes on on these days

Ask your school's head whether you can come in. I'm sure teachers would rather have the time to do marking etc rather than sitting in workshops filling in post- it notes and giving presentations to each other.

[factor-fiction]

The total length of the school year for students hasn't changed.
Schools near here used to get local holiday weeks off too, and the extra day is often made up by fitting a holiday around a May bank holiday.

[factor-fiction]

>Why can't this training take place during the annual 7 week summer siesta.

Well it's usually is- I've always had to do 2 or 3 days in school for INSET days at the start of September before the students go back. But parents etc don't notice that.

And most students get 6 or 6 and half weeks off

[Smowball]

My son is off this week and last Friday was his inset day (Greater London)