Term Dates required for School Transport Services

Norfolk County Council publishes a model calendar for term dates. This Model Calendar can be found at; Term dates and school holidays 2024-2025 . This calendar applies to community schools, community special schools, VC schools and nursery schools and sets the days on which school transport will be provided. Foundation, VA, foundation special, free schools and academy trusts are able to set their own dates and, although many still adopt the model calendar, there are different terms dates across our Norfolk schools. 

Transport into schools is often shared by more than one School/Academy, as this provides the most efficient use of resources.   By closely aligning to the model calendar, school transport can remain as cost efficient as possible whilst working towards our Norfolk climate ambitions.  Where changes to School/Academy calendar are implemented which may impact future transport, discussions with the LA in the first instance means we can work together to identify economical outcomes. 

Each year, to ensure that we have the correct school transport services for children & young people to attend your education establishment, we need to confirm the details of the term's dates for our schools and academies. We do require this information even if you currently have no transport into your establishment as you may require this in the future, this information ensures that we can provide the transport as quickly as possible upon request. 

Please can you confirm to us your term and inset dates for 2024-2025.  To make it easier to provide us with the required information, a short survey has been created for a member of your team to complete. A school specific survey will be emailed to your school on Wednesday 3 July 2024. 

We must emphasise that without this information this could result in non-attendance of pupils to your school when other schools are closed and/or any costs of services provided when your establishment is open outside of the Norfolk Model Calendar may be charged back to you. 

The deadline for completion is the 18 July 2024. 

Thank you in advance for your assistance. 

Travel and Transport Services, Community and Environmental Services Norfolk County Council