Term Dates

Please find below the term dates for the current academic year

Lent Term 2025
  • Staff INSET:
    Tue 7 Jan*
  • Term:
    Wed 8 Jan 8:30am to Fri 4 April 12:50pm**
  • Half Term:
    Fri 14 Feb 3:50pm to Sun 23 Feb*
  • Exeat:
    Fri 14 Mar 3:50pm to Sun 16 Mar*
Summer Term 2025
  • Staff INSET:
    Tue 22 April*
  • Term:
    Wed 23 April 8:30am to Fri 4 July 12:30pm***
  • Half Term:
    Fri 23 May 3:50pm to Sun 1 June*
  • Exeat:
    Fri 2 May 3:50pm to Mon 5 May* (inc Bank Holiday)
Michaelmas Term 2025
  • Staff INSET:
    Mon 1 & Tue 2 Sept
  • New boarders arrive:
    Tue 2 Sept by 11:30am
  • Returning boarders return:
    Tue 2 or Wed 3 Sept by 5:00pm
  • New pupil induction:
    Wed 3 Sept
  • Term:
    Thu 4 Sept 8:30am to Tue 16 Dec 12:50pm**
  • Half Term:
    Fri 17 Oct 3:50pm to Wed 29 Oct*
  • Exeat:
    Fri 26 Sept 3:50pm to Sun 28 Sept*
  • Exeat:
    Fri 21 Nov 3:50pm to Sun 23 Nov*
LENT Term 2026
  • Staff INSET:
    Tue 6 Jan*
  • Term:
    Wed 7 Jan 8:30am to Wed 25 March 12:50pm**
  • Half Term:
    Fri 13 Feb 3:50pm to Sun 22 Feb*
  • Exeat:
    Fri 30 Jan 3:50pm to Sun 1 Feb*

 

* Dates given for the return to School are for boarders
Parents should ensure that boarders return by 9.00pm on the dates shown (unless otherwise stated by house staff) and that day pupils return for morning registration on the following day.

**Prep School closes at 12.20pm at the end of the Michaelmas, Lent and Summer terms

*** Senior School closes after Prizegiving at the end of the Summer term

Absence from School
If, in exceptional circumstances, parents wish to take pupils out of school at the beginning or end of a term or half term, they should contact the Deputy Head (Pastoral), preferably at least three weeks before the proposed absence.