School term & holiday dates

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Welcome to the school holiday term dates page. Here you will find information on school dates for holidays, teacher training days and unplanned school closures.

Holiday or occasion of closure	Date on which school will close	Date on which school will re-open
Teacher training day	Monday 2nd September 2019
Summer 2019	Friday 19th July 2019	Tuesday 3rd September 2019
Teacher training day	Monday 4th November 2019
October half term 2019	Friday 25th October 2019	Tuesday 5th November 2019
Christmas/New year 2019/2020	Friday 20th December 2019	Monday 6th January 2020
Teacher training day	Friday 21st Febuary 2020
Spring half term 2020	Friday 14th Febuary 2020	Monday 24th February 2020
Easter 2020	Friday 3rd April 2020	Monday 20th April 2020
May Day 2020	Friday 8th May 2020
Summer half term	Friday 22nd May 2020	Monday 1st June 2020
Summer 2020	Friday 17th July 2020	Tuesday 1st September 2020

View the links below to download PDF versions of the school term dates.

• Term dates 2019-2020
• Term dates 2020-2021

The following documents provide information regarding planned teacher training days and closures.

Please note teacher training days are subject to change and are updated regularly.

School closures – teacher training days (special schools)

• September 2019 - July 2020

School closures – teacher training days

• September 2019 - July 2020

Should we be informed of any of schools closed due to weather, building problems or other local reasons they will appear below.

Unplanned school closures will appear here. 



Please also follow our alert social media channels for information on unplanned school clousures when the school has informed us of an problem.

• Facebook
• Twitter

We also recomend that you also check with the indivual school via their website, Social media pages and parent mail.


Details of school closures are also given on:

• Metro Radio
• BBC Tyne
• Heart FM
• Capital FM