Slight change to Carcroft Academic Calendar for 2021/2022
I hope that you are all keeping well and are starting to enjoy some more normality post lockdown as restrictions begin to ease.
I am writing regarding the school calendar for the academic year, starting in September (2021/2022). You may remember that I wrote to you earlier in the year, sharing that the XP calendar differed slightly to the Doncaster LA calendar, due to the fact that XP Trust pupils finished slightly earlier than the Doncaster Schools in July 2022, however, I took the decision to continue to finish our school year the same week as the Doncaster schools, for 2021/2022, with a view to then aligning with the trust fully from September 2022.
Unfortunately, after spending a considerable amount of time trying to figure out a way in which we could align with the trust the following year, whilst ensuring that the children and staff at Carcroft still have the same amount of summer holiday days as the rest of the UK in July/August 2022, we ideally need to finish our academic year on Thursday 21st July 2022, ensuring that our children and staff team access the full summer holiday in which they deserve, ready to commence the new academic year on Tuesday 30th August 2022, along with the rest of the XP Trust.
As mentioned above, we were really hoping to be able to try and align the calendars in 2022/2023, but this would mean us returning to school a week after the XP Trust schools in the September 2022 and with us sharing expedition planning and resources across the primary trust schools, we really do need to commence our academic year for 2022/2023 at the same time as the trust schools in order to ensure that the children experience the same learning as their trust peers across the trust from the off as much of this is going to be joint across the group of schools.
When I wrote to parents earlier in the year, one of the concerns raised was that siblings may not finish until the week after and therefore, parents would possibly require some support with childcare. Therefore, we are going to offer a free summer club for this week which will run during school hours Monday to the Thursday, in order to support any working parents who may require it.
I do hope that this does not cause you any inconvenience and hope that you understand the school’s rationale to align with the trust from this September, opposed to September 2022 as originally proposed. I do always try to ensure that all possible options are carefully considered before making a final decision, hence the delay in this message, in order to try and do the right thing by all stakeholders, however, if you do have any further questions/queries, please do not hesitate to contact the school via email. I have asked Mrs Lythe ( [email protected]) to be the main point of contact if you do have any queries regarding this and she will ensure that they are passed onto myself if she is unable to answer them.
The new calendar will be posted shortly.
Thank you in advance for your understanding regarding this matter.
Miss Laing
Headteacher