Holidays are a long-awaited time for any student. Many begin to want to take a break from the lessons from the first school days of the quarter. Schoolchildren are actively making plans for their free time, especially high school students who do not have much of it.
Parents do not lag behind - many of them try to take vacations during the holidays to spend time with their children. Therefore, it is important for many to know in advance what dates the holidays fall on.
Check out the school holiday schedule
Depending on the mode of operation of the school, vacations take place at different times, coinciding only on New Year's holidays.
Please select which education system your school is running.
How vacation dates are determined
The vacation calendar is determined by the Department of Education. However, there are some pitfalls here. In particular, the fact that the dates set are advisory.
That is, the administration of educational institutions has the right to independently adjust the vacation schedule in accordance with the curriculum or any other internal factors. At the same time, the changed dates should not shift more than two weeks from the official vacation dates.
Another reason for differences in vacation schedules is different forms of education. In some schools, they study traditionally in quarters, in others they switched to a more modern modular system - training in trimesters. Accordingly, the vacation schedule also differs, and the Department of Education gives separate recommendations on dates.
Question about one-time holidays
The liberties allowed in setting the vacation schedule is the reason that in Moscow, St. Petersburg and the regions they often do not take place simultaneously. The question of whether this is correct has been actively discussed lately. A one-time vacation would make it more convenient to hold various events for schoolchildren, including olympiads. True, no consensus has yet been reached, and, apparently, schools do not want to lose their privilege to determine the rest time for students themselves.
Holidays in institutions of secondary vocational education
- Winter holidays: from December 30, 2019 to January 12, 2020.
- Summer holidays: from June 29, 2020 to August 31, 2020.
Holidays in higher education institutions
- Winter holidays: from January 25 to February 9, 2020.
- Summer holidays: at least 35 days according to the approved schedule of the educational process.
In addition to planned holidays, classes at school can be
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According to the provisions of the Federal Law No. 273-FZ "On Education in the Russian Federation" dated December 29, 2012, school holidays are planned periods provided for students to relax. This time is also recommended to be used for various activities (excursions, hikes) and participation of children in educational programs.
According to the provisions of the Federal Law No. 273-FZ "On Education in the Russian Federation" dated December 29, 2012, school holidays are planned periods provided for students to relax. This time is also recommended to be used for various activities (excursions, hikes) and participation of children in educational programs. The long-term practice of establishing 4 types of holidays - for each season - continues to be successfully applied today. However, the regular amendments to the Law on Education as part of the ongoing educational reform may be designed to somewhat change the established system. 
Today, in the Russian Federation, the practice of establishing periods of school holidays by educational institutions themselves is being tested. At the same time, the assignment of this issue to the competence of schools provides for the provision of recommendatory terms by officials. Thus, legislators plan to evaluate their own methods for calculating and establishing optimal terms for study and rest, correlating them with modern learning conditions. Thus, Russian schools do not receive a mandatory schedule of school holidays, and paragraph 6 of Part 3 of Art. 28 of the law allows the heads of educational institutions to independently set their terms (with the exception of Moscow schools).
It will be possible to say about the pros and cons of such an innovation after a while, however, one serious drawback is already being actively discussed by both parents and the expert community: the lack of a single schedule for all schools makes useless activities carried out by the traffic police and aimed at reducing schoolchildren's injuries (before the program "Attention , children!” were traditionally held on the days of holidays common to all).
School holidays in quarters and trimesters
Specialists from the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation annually bring recommendations to the heads of educational institutions on vacation periods. For the 2017-2018 school year, the following schedule is proposed for schools operating under the traditional quarter scheme:
- autumn holidays - 10/28/2017-11/6/2017;
- winter holidays - 12/25/2017-01/09/2018;
- spring break - 24.03.2018-2.04.2018;
- summer holidays - 25.05.2018-1.09.2018
School holidays for first grade students are recommended by the Ministry to be supplemented with another 9-day period - from February 17, 2017 to February 26, 2017. As in the case of the main schedule, schools have the right to independently make decisions on establishing basic and additional school holidays. 
The growing popularity of the modular training regime, which provides for a "5 + 1" schedule (five weeks of study, one week of rest), is mostly practiced in the capital's school institutions. For them, officials also developed their own recommendations and proposed to establish rest days in the following periods:
- October 7, 2017 - October 15, 2017;
- 11/18/2017 - 11/26/2017;
- December 30, 2017 - January 9, 2018;
- February 17, 2018 - February 25, 2018;
- 04/07/2018 - 04/15/2018;
- May 25, 2018 – September 1, 2018
When scheduling vacations, specialists adhere to several unspoken rules that are designed to create a more convenient schedule for study and rest. As a rule, the last Monday of the month is chosen as the first day of the next vacation, which allows:
- "capture" the weekend, thereby increasing the period of rest for schoolchildren;
- do not “break” weeks and avoid short-term (2-3-day) study periods;
- provide teachers with a more comfortable schedule for writing curricula.
Autumn holidays 2019
In the current academic year, schoolchildren from most educational institutions in the country will be offered a vacation in the fall from October 28 to November 6. This period included 4 official days off at once, which will provide an excellent respite for teachers.
New Year's winter holidays in 2019
In the 2017-2018 school year, students are encouraged to offer 2 weeks of rest for the New Year holidays. Moreover, due to joining the weekend, this period will be not 14, but 16 days and, as is customary, it will capture not only the New Year, but also Christmas. This period also coincides with the big “holidays” provided for by the official production calendar, which means that parents of schoolchildren will have the opportunity to relax with their children. Recall that for first graders this academic year, additional vacations should be provided - approximately from February 17 to February 26, 2019.
Spring school holidays in 2019
Like the autumn holidays, in the spring, schoolchildren will also be able to rest for 9 days in a row - from 03/24/2018-04/02/2018. In addition, the total number of school days at this time of the year will be reduced due to additional days off caused by public holidays. As a result, you will not have to attend school:
- March 8,
- 1st of May,
- May 8-9.
Summer school holidays
Summer is traditionally completely at the disposal of schoolchildren, and in the current academic year, most of them will go on vacation from May 25. For some, the first days of summer vacation will be associated with exams, or even with a graduation holiday. But one thing is invariable: students in grades 1-10 will have to start studying only after 97 days of rest - on September 1.
Autumn holidays for schoolchildren in 2019
The recommended dates for the autumn holidays of the 2017-2018 academic year will be communicated to the heads of Russian educational institutions in the spring of 2019. Following the generally accepted method of establishing a period of autumn rest, it can be assumed that the holidays will last from October 28 to November 5.
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The Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine, within the framework of the reform of school education, proposes to make changes to the educational process. The reforms will affect curricula and the development of children. In addition, changes can be expected in the structure of the academic year, which many consultants and advisers recommend to divide into trimesters. Until this year, all public and most private schools divided the academic year into semesters.
Qualified specialists are sure that this reform of the school curriculum is very important for the correct distribution of study time. It will make it possible to make the periods of study between small weekly holidays almost the same. Such an organization of the educational process of school-age children will allow teachers and the administration of educational institutions to more harmoniously distribute the educational load on the student.
| Class | Amount of time for additional work when studying subjects in full-time school mode |
|---|---|
| 1 | - |
| 2 | 45 min |
| 3 | 1 hour 10 min |
| 4 | 1 hour 30 minutes |
| 5 | 2.5 hours |
| 6 | 2.5 hours |
| 7 | 3 hours |
| 8 | 3 hours |
| 9 | 3 hours |
| 10 | 4 hours |
| 11 | 4 hours |
However, the reform of the school year structure is likely to take effect no earlier than 2018. According to the letter of the Ministry of Education and Science of June 7, 2017 No. 1 / 9-315 “On the structure of the 2017-2018 academic year”, classes in general educational institutions, regardless of subordination, types and forms of ownership, should begin on Knowledge Day - September 1 and end no later than September 1 July 2018.
The academic year 2017-2018 will be divided into 2 semesters:
- I semester - September 1 - December 22, 2017,
- II semester - January 10 - May 31, 2018.
When are school holidays 2017-2018?
- Autumn holidays: October 30 - November 5, 2017,
- Winter holidays: December 25, 2017 - January 9, 2018,
- Spring break: March 26 - April 1, 2018,
- Summer holidays: from the end of the school year until August 31, 2018.
Many parents whose children are schoolchildren, and the students of educational institutions themselves, want to know in advance what the vacation schedule will be like in the next 2017-2018 academic year. Why? Everything is pretty simple. Adults want to understand when children will be free from school in order to calmly plan their family vacation or find ways to keep their children busy. While the students themselves are interested in when they can “take a break” from bored school days.
What determines vacation dates for schoolchildren?
Each parent is concerned that his child would be constantly at work, attend school, study in sections and develop as correctly and comprehensively as possible. Firstly, it is so useful and interesting for the student himself. Secondly, he is constantly busy, which means that unpleasant situations are excluded, which children so often get into, aimlessly wandering around all day.
Therefore, often the approaching vacation for children makes parents nervous and spend a lot of time planning the daily routine for their child. In such planning, the question becomes urgent: “How many days will the break from school last?”. Moreover, you want to know the vacation schedule in advance in order, for example, to understand when it is best to coordinate your next vacation at work and spend more time with your son or daughter.
However, the bureaucratic reality is such that the Ministry of Education and Science approves the recommended schedule almost on the eve of the first of September. In rare cases - a little earlier. For example, before summer. Therefore, the school holidays for the upcoming 2017-2018 academic year should be officially “dated” only in the near future.
At the same time, we must not forget that the Ministry of Education only recommends a list of dates for schoolchildren, taking into account the list of working and weekend days approved by the government, and the workload, and various circumstances (the same quarantine). But directly the heads of educational institutions have the right to make adjustments to suit their needs - to shift the beginning and end of the "school leave" by 1-2 weeks.
Advice! Active interaction with the parent council and the management of the educational institution will help to keep abreast of the planned dates for the holidays.
If we talk about the main reasons for changing the dates of rest for schoolchildren, then there are only two of them:
- The calendar itself changes every year. As a rule, the days of the week are somewhat shifted (by 1-2 days) relative to similar calendar numbers for the previous year.
- Constantly our government approves a new production calendar. As a result, there is a redistribution of holidays and weekends.
Thus, the annual change in the schedule is natural in order to avoid overlaps, for example.
Approximate vacation dates for 2017-2018
Now in the territory of the Russian Federation there are three main education systems:
- by quarters;
- by modules;
- by trimesters.
However, we note that the calendar-modular and trimester planning approaches are the same, so children will have rest in the same period.
This is only approximate data. The only exceptions are the beginning and end of training. Everything here is the same as before: on September 1, 2017 we go to school, on May 31, 2018 (lower grades earlier) we finish our studies.
What can affect the changes in the calendar?
Educational institutions with a quarter system of education
The very first - autumn holidays, which are marked by the celebration of the Day of National Unity - 04.11. This year, the holiday falls on Saturday, as a result of which the all-Russian day off was postponed to the following Monday - 11/06/2018. How exactly this transfer will be regarded by your educational institution and how to set the time for rest, it is better to check with the school management.
As for winter, the New Year holidays of 2018, as a rule, coincide with the all-Russian weekend dedicated to the celebration of the New Year and Christmas. This means that students go on vacation from about December 27 to December 30. Therefore, January 09-10, 2018 is the beginning of the third quarter, as well as the first working day for adults throughout the country.
In the spring of the 2017-2018 academic year, no national holidays are planned, and therefore changing the period for their holding in the spring of 2018 depends only on the decision of the school management. Any unforeseen circumstances can also affect - the same quarantine, during which lessons are not held. As a result, it is necessary to “catch up” in order to have time to teach all the topics of the school curriculum. Because of what, the terms of the spring “vacation” of schoolchildren can be shifted.
Important! For children aged 6-7 who go to school for the first time, an additional winter weekend is set in the last week of February.
Schools with a trimester type of education
Oddly enough, with this system of education for parents it is somewhat easier, although they themselves learned differently. The fact is that the methodology initially relies on the following scheme: the child studies for five weeks, rests for one - and this cycle repeats again and again. The same period lasts for modules with a different type of training.
The only exception is winter holidays, which last longer. After all, it is associated with the New Year holidays, approved by the production calendar. Therefore, the number of days off during the winter break from study is always greater.
What can cause delays?
The main reason why the final word in the approval of the vacation period is left to the director of the educational institution is the too large palette of territorial features of each region.
So, in a number of Siberian and northern regions, training is often canceled due to severe frosts. Another objective reason may be a severe flood or an epidemic of diseases. Therefore, it is possible to focus on the preliminary school schedule of academic and weekend days, but it should not be taken as final and approved.
- The official website of the school is the first source of accurate specific information. Legislatively, each organization carrying out educational activities is required to post on its website an annual calendar plan of classes;
- Electronic resource: student's diary. The information you are interested in will be posted as an announcement for parents or you can just scroll through the diary, if there are no classes, then you have found what you were looking for;
- The class teacher always has information on the schedule of the educational process of his wards and, of course, will tell you when the holidays begin or end;
- A phone call to the principal's office. The secretary is also aware of the schedule of the educational process and is authorized to provide you with this information.
The decision on the start and end time of the holidays in the new academic year will be taken by each educational institution independently. The dates of school holidays 2018-2019 in a particular educational institution depend on many factors:
- trimester training,
- quarters or modules;
- weather;
- climatic conditions of the area;
- The Ministry of Education sets the recommended vacation dates, but the final decision still remains with the leadership of educational institutions.
Holidays in the summer should be no shorter than 8 weeks. And school holidays during the school year should not be less than 30 calendar days. Holidays must start on Monday and cannot be extended by more than 2 weeks.
The 2018-2019 academic year starts on September 1st. The educational process will last 34 weeks, excluding the final certification, and the holidays will last 18 weeks.
Besides, schoolchildren will have a rest during the days of public holidays.
Vacation schedule 2018-2019 for students by quarter
Additional holidays for students of the first year of study:
Vacation schedule 2018-2019 for students by trimesters
The training schedule for trimesters is quite simple - students according to such a system spend 5 weeks in class, after which the 6th week is a vacation. The result is the following school trimester dates for 2018-2019:
Autumn holidays 2018
Autumn holidays will begin on October 29 on Monday. And the children will go to school not on 5.11, but on 6.11, since the holiday "Day of National Unity" falls on Sunday, which will rest on Monday.
Winter holidays 2018
Winter holidays are recommended to start on December 28 and end on January 9. Winter holidays are the longest. In the northern regions, due to low temperatures, winter holidays may be extended. Whether these days will be compensated by the weekend, each school decides individually.
Spring Break 2018
Spring break is recommended to start on March 25 and end on April 2. this vacation will be after the longest third quarter. But it often happens that it is in the third quarter that the peak of viral infections falls. If in the middle of the quarter a quarantine was declared, lasting more than a week, then the administration of the educational institution has the right to declare some days off as training days in order to catch up with the program.
Summer holidays 2018
Mandatory briefing before the holidays
Before leaving for the holidays, all children must listen to instructions on how to behave properly during the holidays. Class teachers should explain to students what can and cannot be done.
A separate topic should be devoted to the rules of the road, since a large number of traffic accidents involving children occur during the holidays.
If the students go on summer vacation, parents must inform where and with whom their children will be. Before the summer holidays, parents must also listen to the briefing and sign for it.
