It’s often said at the start of a new term ‘It doesn’t feel as if we’ve ever been away” but this year we have all benefited from the extraordinarily hot, dry summer holiday we have had. Pupils are eager to learn and genuinely refreshed.

However, I make no bones of the fact that I believe our approach to school holidays needs an overview and wrote a short piece in TES to that effect in 2013 read more here Meadowpark newsletter