Here you can find the term dates for Reading’s maintained schools. Academies and free schools do not have to follow these, so please confirm with your child’s school before booking holidays, etc.

Schools can set a number of training (inset) days, when they are closed to pupils. These may be different in each school and your school should inform you in advance.

Please note that these are the dates for schools under Reading Local Authority control. Academies, free schools and other own admissions authority schools are free to set their own dates so these may be different.

Awareness days

Many schools observe key awareness days throughout the year, so to help keep track, check the link below for a UK awareness days calendar.

UK Awareness Days

2024-2025

Download term dates 2024-2025

Term

Start date

End date

1

Tuesday 3 September 2024 (inset day)

Schools return Wednesday 4 September

Friday 25 October 2024

2

Monday 4 November 2024

Friday 20 December 2024

3

Monday 6 January 2025

Friday 14 February 2025

4

Monday 24 February 2025

Friday 4 April 2025

5

Tuesday 22  April 2025

Friday 23 May 2025

6

Monday 2 June 2025

Wednesday 23 July 2025

2025-2026

Download term dates 2025-2026

Term

Start date

End date

1

Wednesday 3 September 2025 (inset day)

Schools return Thursday 4 September

Friday 24 October 2025

2

Monday 3 November 2025

Friday 19 December 2025

3

Monday 5 January 2026

Friday 13 February 2026

4

Monday 23 February 2026

Friday 27 March 2026 

5

Monday 13 April 2026

Friday 22 May 2026

6

Monday 1 June 2026

Wednesday 22 July 2026

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