Summer Term

Classes shut and exams threatened as ash cloud clogs working Britain - Times Online

The problem comes from the fact that most schools start today after the Easter Holidays and many teachers and students were abroad when the "ash crisis" started.

The academic year in primary and secondary schools in the UK is divided into three terms: Autumn, Spring and Summer (traditionally called Christmas, Easter and Summer terms, these names have changed due to political correction). In the middle of each term there is a week holiday called half term. There are also some bank holidays scattered along the year as well as the main vacation periods: Summer, Christmas and Easter.

For more detailed information about the British school calendar you need to check the information about a particular area. Here is the calendar for 2009/10 at the London Borough of Hackney:

The Learning Trust - The Future for Education in Hackney

It is interesting to contrast this calendar with that of New South Wales in Australia: New South Wales School Calendar

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Teachable: help for CAL teachers.

Browsing through the pages of the Education section in the Times Online I came across this website which offers quality materials for teachers of different subjects. It's worth giving it a try.

Click on the picture and watch the video, although you might get the impression this is like the "Lazy guy's corner" (El rincón del vago), this time for teachers (it was about time, though!).

Then try with some of the subjects below. They are nicely organised not only by subject but also attending to age groups (in the British system) and then again by rating / date / title / contributor.

I hope you find it useful. I have created a new entry under "useful links" on the right for easy access from this blog in the future.