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British (A-Level / IGCSE) school calendars

51 schools following this curriculum, across 7 cities.

How the British (A-Level / IGCSE) year is shaped

British schools run three terms with a one- to two-week half-term inside each, and insert INSET staff days frequently — the highest rate of non-teaching closures of any system.

28 of these 51 schools publish staff training days (INSET / PD) — days the school is shut to students but most workplaces are not. Those are the dates worth checking first if you need childcare.

Next school holiday in British (A-Level / IGCSE)

Term Pause

Nov 7 – Nov 10, 2026

9
days away

Counted as the earliest school-holiday start among the 51 British (A-Level / IGCSE) schools below. They publish their own calendars and do not all break in the same week, so the school that breaks first is not the family breaking — each school's own dates are listed below.

Breaks this curriculum uses

Break Schools publishing it
School holiday 89 of 51
Other school holiday 35 of 51
Winter break 24 of 51
Spring break 21 of 51

Every British (A-Level / IGCSE) school we track

Each entry links to the school's own page and to a correction form that carries the school and its published source.

By city

Source and data

This page restates the calendars of 51 British (A-Level / IGCSE) schools, collected from each school or its authority and published as one dataset at /data/schools-compact.json. There is no single British (A-Level / IGCSE) calendar, so there is no single source here: every school above links to its own.

Data collected for this dataset. It is the date the whole dataset was collected, not a per-school verification date: a school may have published its dates earlier, and any of these calendars can change after it.

A school's calendar can change mid-year. Confirm against the school's own publication before booking travel.

Spotted a wrong date, or a school that has republished its calendar? Report a date error or source change — name the school in the details, or use the per-school report link in the list above so that the school's own source URL travels with the report.

Other curricula

Pages are generated for curricula with at least 4 schools. The remainder are listed on the school directory.

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