Inset days
Inset Days in Sunderland: A Guide for Parents and Professionals
What are Inset Days?
Inset days, short for in-service training days, focus on the professional development for school staff, including teachers and support staff. These days allow staff to engage in workshops, training, planning and administrative tasks, ensuring high teaching standards and educational outcomes.
Schools are required to be open to students for 190 days a year, except for unexpected events like snow days or heating breakdowns. Academies are not bound by the same rules, although most do adhere to them. Schools in Sunderland each determine their own inset dates.
Notification and Planning
Schools must inform parents about inset days well in advance through newsletters, emails, and school websites. Parents should monitor these communications to plan for any necessary childcare or other arrangements that would need to be put in place.
Academic Year 2023/2024 Dates
Together for Children request details of inset dates from all Sunderland Schools. The dates we have received are listed in the reports below (see Related Media) for the 2023/2024 academic year. We would also recommend verifying these dates with your individual school as well.
- Inset Dates 2023/2024 - Diary Version
- Inset Dates 2023/2024 - By School
- Schools with Term dates different to the local authority recommended term dates
- Sunderland Schools Term Date calendar
Academic Year 2024/2025 Dates
All schools have been asked to supply the information about their planned Inset dates for the Academic Year 2024/2025, however any schools that do not provide this information directly to Together for Children by the deadline date of Friday 7th June 2024, staff will attempt to gather the necessary information from the individual school's websites.
Once this information is received and processed, we will make the reports available here.
