half term

noun

1. education
   1. a short holiday midway through an academic term
   2. ( as modifier )

      a half-term holiday

Example Sentences

The rail firm, which was nationalised in 2020, cancelled more than 1,000 trains during the recent half term.

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He described it as a "warm day" during school half term, and that the beach was busy.

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Mr Drakeford told the chamber that Ms Neagle's predecessor published a plan to move one week from the school summer holiday to the autumn half term.

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If the proposals had gone ahead, the half term break in October 2025 would have been extended to a fortnight, with a five week rather than six week holiday in summer 2026.

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School meal support during the holidays began during the pandemic, and had been repeatedly extended - with the most recent extension to the end of the May half term holiday of last year.

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