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  2. English school holidays - Wikipedia

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    The English school year runs from early September to mid- or late July. Most schools divide the year into three terms, each term divided into half terms: Autumn term runs from early September to mid December (half term ends in late October). Spring Term runs from early January to Easter (half term ends in mid-February).

  3. Academic year - Wikipedia

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    For English state schools, the year commences the first week of September with a half-term break (one week) at the end of October, and the first term ending the third week of December. After a two-week holiday, encompassing Christmas and New Year, the second term runs from early January to Easter and is of variable length to allow for the ...

  4. Academic term - Wikipedia

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    Generally in English Canada, ... If Easter is in March, a 5-day half-term break then exists, with school ending on Maundy Thursday and resuming on the Wednesday.

  5. Michaelmas term - Wikipedia

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    The term is also the name of the first of four terms into which the legal year is divided by the Courts of England and Wales and the Courts of Northern Ireland.. While the name is not used in the legal systems of the United States, where most American courts operate on continuous year-round calendars without terms, the U.S. Supreme Court roughly follows the English custom by beginning its ...

  6. Half term - Wikipedia

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    Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Half_term&oldid=475037132"This page was last edited on 4 February 2012, at 22:55 (UTC). (UTC).

  7. Date and time notation in the United Kingdom - Wikipedia

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    20fed Mai 1999 or 20 fed Mai 1999 (The suffix indicates an ordinal number, like "th" in English.) The month–day–year order (for example "Mai 20, 1999") was previously more common: it is usual to see a Welsh month–day–year date next to an English day–month–year date on a bilingual plaque from the latter half of the 20th century.

  8. English studies - Wikipedia

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    The English major rose to prominence in American colleges during the first half of the 1970s. [7] It provided an opportunity for students to develop critical skills in analytical reading with the aim of improving their writing. It focused on exercises in rhetoric and persuasive expression that had been traditionally only taught in classical ...

  9. Full Term - Wikipedia

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    Full Term in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge refers to the eight weeks within the longer academic term, during which lectures are given and students are required to be in residence. The dates of Full Term may differ from year to year within the fixed dates of the whole term (simply, but ambiguously, referred to as "Term" with a capital ...