Leeds: Should school holidays be shorter?

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The head of Ofsted says school holidays should be shorter to give children more learning time. Do children get too many holidays, should terms be longer?

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00:00I think the holidays are great, I think the kids spend enough time at school, I think

00:04the six-week holidays, they deserve it. By the time they finish the school years, the

00:09terms, they're absolutely knackered, they need a bit of playtime. So I agree, no problem

00:16at all with the school terms and the six-week holidays.

00:21I think they should be longer because if you think there's five days you've got to go to

00:25school and only two days you get off, so you can then spend more time with family and

00:31friends rather than having more time at school since there's only five days you get at school

00:38and two days that you don't get at school.

00:41I think half-term breaks should be longer, either make them longer or they can shorten

00:46them but then they have to give us like three weeks at full term.

00:49Well I remember it was just three days and that's all we got then and I think it should

00:53be reduced to three days now so that they're a bit longer at school because a week is

00:58too long, I quite agree.

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