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Ski Babe, Thank you. Just to be doubly sure check your local education authorities website. 
Down here in Deepest Wiltshire the schools are only closing for a long weekend for Easter this year.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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basically our holiday are rubbish, they do get a long wekend in febriuary, a long weekend in may but basically if you want a skiing holiday you either go xmas, easter or take kids out of school, which incidentally is never authorised and goes down as unauthorised absence.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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OK. The French school holidays will be from 7 February - 9 March. So in France, at any rate, first week of February, and second week of March look like very good bets for next season.
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Anyone know when the Italian and Austrian Easter holidays are?
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charlichops, The 30,500 private school puplis in Scotland have a week long half term holiday.
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| charlichops wrote: |
| basically our holiday are rubbish, they do get a long wekend in febriuary, a long weekend in may but basically if you want a skiing holiday you either go xmas, easter or take kids out of school, which incidentally is never authorised and goes down as unauthorised absence. |
Tut tut 
Long weekend holidays, Scotland, skiing holiday - YES, get yourself organised and arrange something around some of the Scottish Ski centres. I have managed to arrange reasonably priced long weekend skiing holidays (with small children) for the Feb mid-term break and last (long) weekend Easter weekend. It also looks like the long weekend in May is also a possibility.
Courchevel is ain't, but like so many other on this forum have discovered, you can have a (short) skiing holiday in Scotland.
Looks like you need to get back over to the WH forum and start gathering some information.
Cheers
Rik
BTW: Re "unauthorised absence" - taking your kids put of school to visit a relative in Switzerland, France, Austria etc doesn't count as unauthorised absence 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Chris JB, I've been looking for them all in one place for years! You're a star - thanks!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| taking your kids put of school to visit a relative in Switzerland, France, Austria etc doesn't count as unauthorised absence |
But if it's not the true reason for your trip, is it not better to take an "unauthorised absence" on the chin, rather than teach your kids that if you can't get what you want honestly, get it dishonestly?
If your kids have an otherwise good attendance and behaviour record you won't be put in prison.
And many schools will give an authorised absence, when push comes to shove. We always took ours out of school, though that was in the olden days when schools weren't chasing so many daft targets. It was always authorised.
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You know it makes sense.
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boredsurfin, you're spoiling me now...
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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ctskifam, How's the grab a granny deal looking 
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Poster: A snowHead
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We always requested the childrens' absence from school, and it was never refused. They took a week out most winters until they were about 13 or 14, all of them authorised. Although they can refuse, it is better for them to reluctantly give permission. If they refuse and you then take them out of school anyway, and the absence is unauthorised, it does not look good for their truancy statistics.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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ctskifam, you are quite welcome! I could not do without them for our schools programme.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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| pam w wrote: |
| OK. The French school holidays will be from 7 February - 9 March. So in France, at any rate, first week of February, and second week of March look like very good bets for next season. |
Am I right in saying that France splits into 3 or 4 zones with disjunct or overlapping school holiday periods?
Anybody got the specifics on when each zone's holiday falls?
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Thanks boredsurfin, that's a useful link.
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Paris Ile-de-France (Créteil / Paris / Versailles)
14/02/09 to 01/03/09 - Winter holiday |
Co-incides with the UK school holidays quite nicely 
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Guys, Any news here on Swiss or Austrian holidays - trying to sneak in a weekend mid February
Thanks for any help you can provide 
CW
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Cheers Hurtle - a most useful link.
CW
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