A school has reportedly become the first in the UK to scrap the six week summer holidays.
But instead of moving the long break to a set time elsewhere in the school year, the headteacher is letting parents take their children out whenever they want, reports Manchester Evening News.
The move wouldn't be possible in most schools but Shrewsbury Prepatoria in Shropshire is independent and has just 11 pupils in Reception and Year 1 and is expanding next year to accommodate pupils in Year 2.
The school was launched last year by headmistress Jane Smalley and aims to make the lives of working parents easier.
According to the Daily Mail, Ms Smalley's plan to abolish set term times happened 'by accident' after she applied for Department for Education guidance on how to open an independent school.
She was told that schools don't actually need to have specific term times as long as children have the minimum requirement of 190 days a year which constitutes full-time education.
She began by allowing pupils to take up to ten weeks holiday but later cut this to six weeks to ensure more time for learning.
These weeks are in addition to the four weeks the school is closed for over Christmas and Easter.
Ms Smalley, 59, who quit her job as a reception teacher to set up the school said: "It’s a no brainer. Why shouldn’t we have schools that meet the needs of families?”
Mum Sarah Golden pays £6,540 a year for her five-year-old son Chase to attend the school and says she no longer has to juggle work deadlines or beg people to babysit when she is working during the summer.
She said: “The long summer holidays aren’t good for anyone. Chase is so much happier [at school], with his friends.”
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