Headteachers, will you change your summer holidays?

Could the traditional six-week summer break be about to fly away? Photograph: Matt Cardy/Getty ImagesNew proposals will give headteachers in England the freedom to change the layout of the academic school year, with the power to cut the six-week summer break – but is it a change heads want and need? In Wales, the legislation being proposed is the complete opposite – there, the government wants to harmonise term dates by getting councils to work together.Lynne Ackland, head of Heaton Manor

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