Mirror: A school has become the first in Britain to scrap traditional term times which allows parents to take their children on holiday at any time. The fee-paying school Shrewsbury Prepatoria has taken a different approach to holiday time, meaning it is open for 48 weeks a year, and parents are allowed to go on holiday at any point during term time. It costs £6,504 a year to send a child aged between four and seven to the school. But bosses claim this is offset by the savings families can make by going on holiday outside of peak times. Mum Sarah Golden, whose five-year-old son Chase is one of 11 pupils at the Shropshire school, told The Daily Mail: “The long summer holidays aren’t good for anyone.” And she claimed Chase is “happier” at school while other kids his age are on their summer holidays. Headteacher Jane Smalley said on average parents take their children out of school for four weeks, on top of the four weeks the school is closed over Christmas and Easter.
The maximum they can take is six.
And Ms Smalley – who opened the school in September – said this has not put off the three staff she has recruited.
The headteacher said: “It’s a no brainer.