Term Dates and Times of the Day

Term Dates for Academic Year: 2026/2027

Start date: 01 Sep 2026
End date: 31 Aug 2027

Single-Day Holidays

01 Sep 2026: Inset1
02 Sep 2026: Inset2
23 Nov 2026: Inset3
22 Feb 2027: Inset4
26 Mar 2027: Good Friday
12 Apr 2027: Inset5

Times of the Day

8.45am Breakfast
9.05am Lesson 1
9.50am Lesson 2
10.30am Break
10.50am Lesson 3
11.35am Lesson 4
12.15pm Lunch
12.35pm Lesson 5
1.20pm Tutor
1.30pm Enrichment

The length of our school day

Chaselea aims to provide as close to 32.5 hours per week of school time as is possible. Students in alternative provision attend for 5 hours and 15 minutes per day, however as a provision we are acutely aware of the significant distance that most of our students travel and therefore an increase in this time could be detrimental to our students.
Chaselea Alternative Provision Academy believe that our school timetable complies with the below extract from the DFE guidance

Specialist settings, including special schools and alternative provision, support a wide range of pupils with diverse needs and therefore currently structure their school week in more varied ways than mainstream schools. Therefore, the expectation for a minimum school week of 32.5 hours does not apply to these settings. However, specialist settings should share the overall ambition to increase the length of the school week, where it is beneficial for their pupils to do so