This is meant to keep holiday traffic as low as possible. **Students are able to initiate an academic withdrawal until the last day of the semester/ term. Sole exception to this is the final year at high schools, which ends with Graduation of students at the end of May. Colorado College first began their "Block Plan" in 1970,[57] followed by Maharishi International University in 1971, and Cornell College in 1978. The primary school year runs from the beginning of September until the end of June.


The school year usually begins during the first week of February. From the Statutes and Ordinances of the University of Cambridge For middle (junior high) school, the school day is from about 8:00 am–3:30 pm, each class lasting 45 minutes. Whitsunday was originally the feast of Pentecost, around which a great many christenings would occur, so it became associated with the color white. For the government universities, the students of bachelors are given 1–1.5 month of summer vacation and 1–1.5 weeks of winter vacations. Candlemas: 2 February, Candlemas, which fell forty days after Christmas, marked the presentation of the infant Jesus in the temple and the purification of the Virgin Mary. Half-term breaks divide the 16- to 17-week terms. Thus, if the school is closed for two weeks (10 instructional days) because the boiler has broken down, that will extend the school year by two weeks because proper maintenance could have prevented the problem, but snow storms and other forms of severe weather normally do not extend the school year because they cannot be prevented. There are also some schools, especially in the southern tier of the United States, that begin at the end of July and early August. The English law courts terms and legal training pupillage divided the year into four terms, partly to create a predictable work schedule, but also to make allowances for harsh travel conditions and delays caused by adverse weather at a time when all English law students and many litigants had to travel to London for training or legal advice at one of the Inns of Court. For states with a Friday-Saturday weekend (Johor, Kedah, Kelantan, and Terengganu), the school week is Sunday to Thursday; as a result, school terms begin and end a day earlier in these four states than in the rest of the country. (It depends on university.)

After the end of school year on June 30, the Summer holidays follow until September 1 when a new school year starts.

As most of these breaks depend on the Higri year which is 10 days shorter than the Solar year, there is a gradual change on the date of these events in relation to the school year.
[33] The proposals were introduced at a small number of schools nationally. College of Education and Health Professions, International Admission and Student Success, iy_2020; im_09; id_29; ih_20; imh_44; i_epoch:1601437461731, py_2020; pm_09; pd_06; ph_01; pmh_18; p_epoch:1599380315719, link-block-publisher; link-block-publisher_link-block-publisher; bodystr, pn_tstr:Sun Sep 06 01:18:35 PST 2020; pn_epoch:1599380315719, https://www.park.edu/calendars/term-dates/. Kindergartens often operate a semester (two-term) system, divided by the lengthy (e.g.