Term Dates and School Day

Term dates for 2026/2027

Note: UKAT Sixth Form please see separate term dates.

UKAT Sixth Form Term Dates

The Academy Day

Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday

Lesson 1: 08:30 am – 09:00 am (Tutor Time)

Lesson 2: 09:00 am – 10:05 am

Lesson 3: 10:05 am – 11:25 am (Including break 1 and 2)

Break: 11:10 am – 11:25 am

Lesson 4: 11:25 am – 12:30 pm

Lesson 5: 12:30 pm – 2:10 pm (Including lunch 1 and 2)

Lesson 6: 2:10 pm – 3:15 pm

Friday Only: 2:10pm Finish

The official compulsory start time of the Academy Day: 8:30 am

The official compulsory end time of the Academy Day: 3:15 pm (2:10 pm Fridays)

The total time this amounts to in a typical week, including breaks but not after-school activities is 32 hours and 45 minutes.

Student Attendance

At Brompton Academy, we believe that consistent attendance plays a vital role in fostering academic success, social development, and a sense of belonging. When pupils attend school regularly, they benefit from continuous learning, active participation in class discussions, and the opportunity to build positive relationships with their peers and teachers.

Good attendance and punctuality are important for achieving success at school and are important life skills.

Absence from school disrupts learning and hinders progress. Ensuring regular attendance at school is a legal responsibility for parents/carers.

As a school our expectation is that students will achieve a minimum of 96% attendance combined with excellent punctuality. Attendance below 90% is classified as persistent absence by the Department for Education and below 50% is classified as severe absence.

We track and monitor attendance throughout the year and work with many individual students and their families to overcome barriers to good attendance. We also send updates to parents/carers of children where attendance has dropped below 90% to ask for their support in trying to minimise future absence, which could have a detrimental impact on a child’s progress, attainment, and wellbeing.

Punctuality

Good punctuality is an excellent life-skill, and we expect all our students to arrive in school before 8:25am. For any student who arrives after 8:25am, we operate a ‘late gate’ through reception and students will receive a detention.

Arriving just 5 minutes late every day is the equivalent to missing three days of education over the whole year. 10 minutes late every day will mean that a child loses over 30 hours of learning a year.

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