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.