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Summer holidays can put pupils three months behind – so is it time to end the six-week break?

There are two popular theories about the origin of the school summer holiday: one, that it came about because farmers needed their children to help with the harvest; and two, that the school calendar was tailored to the long holidays of the Victorian professional classes. Many public school parents worked as lawyers or in Parliament, and had a recess between July and September. Neither idea is relevant to today’s students, but a six-week-minimum break remains – although, perhaps, not for much lo ....

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Tips for preventing 'summer slide'

Waterslides and playground slides are part of summer s fun. But there s one slide to avoid when the weather gets warm: the "summer slide." That s the loss over the long summer ....

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