Why do the Independent Commission and LGA consider a six-term school year would be an improvement?
11. The Commission has stated that its objectives in recommending a six-term school year include: q Raising educational standards and assisting pupils and their teachers, through The avoidance of stress The Commission found all consulted agreed that excessively long terms induced stress and absences from school among both teachers and pupils. Their proposals for a longer holiday in late October and for ensuring that no term lasts more than around seven weeks are designed to achieve a reduction in stress and are based on the experience of schools, which have already adopted a similar pattern. A better environment for planning and managing the curriculum and assessment The Commission has also found that those schools which have opted for shorter terms all testified to the benefits which the new pattern brought to pupils learning, teachers planning and the schools ability to manage both curriculum and assessment more successfully and coherently. q An element of standardisation and predict
