Many parents whose children are schoolchildren, and even students of general education institutions themselves, want to know in advance what the vacation schedule will be in the next 2017-2018 school year. Why? It's quite simple. Adults want to understand when their children will be free from school in order to calmly plan their family vacation or find ways to keep their children occupied. Whereas the students themselves are interested in when they will be able to “take a break” from the boredom of school everyday life.
What determines schoolchildren's vacation dates?
Every parent is concerned that his child is constantly at work, attends school, studies in sections and develops 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 that children so often find themselves in when they wander aimlessly all day long are excluded.
Therefore, often the approaching holidays for children make parents nervous and spend a lot of time planning the daily routine for their child. In such planning, the pressing question becomes: “How many days will the break from school last?” Moreover, you want to know the vacation schedule in advance, so that, for example, you can understand when it is best to coordinate your next vacation from 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 September 1st. In rare cases - a little earlier. For example, before summer. Therefore, school holidays should be officially “dated” for the upcoming 2017-2018 school year 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 days and weekends approved by the government, the workload, and various circumstances (the same quarantine). But the leaders themselves educational institutions have the right to make adjustments to suit their needs - to shift the start and end of “school leave” by 1-2 weeks.
Advice! Active interaction with parent council and management educational institution will help you be aware of the planned dates for the holidays.
If we talk about the main reasons for changing schoolchildren’s holiday dates, there are only two of them:
- The calendar itself changes every year. As a rule, the days of the week shift slightly (by 1-2 days) relative to similar calendar numbers for the previous year.
- Our government constantly approves a new production calendar. As a result, holidays and weekends are redistributed.
Thus, an annual change in the schedule is natural, in order, for example, to avoid overlaps.
Approximate vacation dates for 2017-2018
Now on site Russian Federation There are three main education systems:
- by quarters;
- by modules;
- by trimester.
However, we note that the calendar modular and trimester planning approaches coincide, so children will have their holidays during the same period.
These are only approximate data. The only exceptions will be 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 (junior grades earlier) we finish our studies.
What can affect changes in the calendar?
Educational institutions with a quarter system of education
The very first are the autumn holidays, which are marked by the celebration of National Unity Day - 04.11. IN this year The holiday falls on Saturday, as a result of which the all-Russian day off was moved to the following Monday - November 6, 2018. It is better to check with the school management how exactly this transfer will be assessed by your educational institution and how it will set the time frame for rest.
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 approximately December 27 to 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 of their holding in the spring of 2018 depends only on the decision of the school management. Any unforeseen circumstances may also have an impact - for example, quarantine, during which classes are not held. As a result, it is necessary to “catch up” in order to have time to teach all the topics school curriculum. Because of this, the dates for the spring “vacation” of schoolchildren may be shifted.
Important! For children 6-7 years old who are going to school for the first time, there are additional winter weekends in the last week of February.
Trimester schools
Oddly enough, this education system is somewhat easier for parents, although they themselves learned differently. The fact is that the method is initially based on the following scheme: the child studies for five weeks, rests for one - and this cycle is repeated 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.
Why might deadlines be delayed?
The main reason why the final word in approving the vacation period is left to the director of the educational institution is that the palette of territorial features of each region is too large.
Thus, in a number of Siberian and northern regions, training is often canceled due to severe frosts. Another objective reason could be a severe flood or an epidemic of diseases. Therefore, you can focus on the preliminary school schedule of school days and weekends, but you should not perceive it as final and approved.
- The official website of the school is the first source of accurate, specific information. Legislatively, every organization carrying out educational activities, is required to post the annual calendar plan classes;
- Electronic resource: student’s diary. The information you are interested in will be posted as an announcement for parents, or you can simply 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 students and, of course, will tell you when the holidays begin or end;
- A telephone call to the school principal's office. The secretary is also aware of the teaching schedule and is authorized to provide you with this information.
For full and comprehensive development, a child should follow the recommendations of experts, who unanimously advise alternating work and rest time for all schoolchildren. For any child, work becomes study, and rest is time for a well-deserved and fun vacation, which will be discussed in this article.
It should be noted that the autumn school holidays of the 2017-2018 academic year in the Russian Federation are a period when all students have a wonderful opportunity to take a break from busy everyday life, spend more time with friends on the street, reading interesting books and attending various events, be it a trip to cinema, theater, museum, etc. Therefore, every student eagerly awaits the onset of the autumn school holidays.
When are the autumn holidays in the 2017-2018 school year?
It all depends on the form of education in a particular school. As a rule, there are two such forms: trimesters and quarters. Depending on how the learning process is going at the school where your student is studying, you can find out when the well-deserved autumn holiday will come for schoolchildren in 2017:
The form of training is in trimesters.
In this case, children are trained in this way: 5 weeks of study, a week of rest. Autumn holidays are expected from October 2 to 8 and from November 13 to 19.
The form of training is in quarters.
Autumn school holidays will be held from October 30 to November 6 inclusive.
Who determines the dates for the 2017 fall school holidays?
The Russian Ministry of Education stipulates that students must rest for 30 calendar days in one academic year, excluding summer holidays. In addition, recommendations are given on what periods are best to take a break from classes, so as not to lose track of the school curriculum and have time to complete everything planned, while at the same time lightly loading the growing body with large amounts of information. But every educational institution has the right to adjust timing school autumn holidays of the 2017-2018 academic year in such a way that they do not “break” their own program according to which they study in a particular educational institution.
In other words, the timing and number of days of school holidays vary depending on the decision of the administration of each school individually. 
In what cases can school holidays be canceled or postponed?
Please note that they may be postponed or canceled altogether if the school was closed for quarantine in the fall. Besides, parental committee has the right to vote in the formation of vacation dates for schoolchildren: if the proposals made by the parents of schoolchildren have a special logical basis, then the school administration can listen to their opinion and move the vacation period to a time convenient for everyone.
Also see: in 2017 in Russia, the date of the holiday.
Vacations are the most favorite time for students. And even those who left the school a long time ago remember the times of rest with a cheerful smile. Both students and their parents are looking forward to a break in the educational process, but they are looking forward to the autumn break - the very first - with special impatience.
When will the rest begin?
Many students, and their parents, notice that in different educational institutions the autumn holidays fall on different time. The reason for this discrepancy is the teaching process adopted in each particular school. The academic year can be divided either into four parts - quarters, or into three - trimesters. At the end of each part there must be a short break. The 2018-2019 academic year is no exception.
For quarterly schools
The minimum time allotted for rest in the fall is one week. Schools prefer to start their holidays on Monday and end on Sunday. This facilitates the process of distributing the load, plus it helps schoolchildren adapt more easily and get involved in their studies after a break.
As a rule, in institutions with a quarterly education system, the first holidays occur in October, most often in the last week of the month. The autumn holidays 2018-2019 will not be an exception - the holidays will begin on October 29. But some questions may arise with the start date of the second quarter.
The fact is that during the autumn holidays of the 2018-2019 academic year, National Unity Day falls - an important public holiday, and therefore a general day off. It is celebrated on November 4, Sunday. According to the transfer law holidays The day off will be the day after the holiday – Monday, November 5th. Thus, the holidays are extended by another day, and instead of seven days, schoolchildren will rest for eight. And if we add to this the official weekend before the start of the holiday - Saturday October 27 (if the school has a five-day period) and Sunday October 28, then schoolchildren will have nine or even ten days off in the fall.
Let's summarize:
- Autumn holidays in 2018-2019 – from October 29 to November 5 inclusive.
- The last day of school in the first quarter is October 26 or 27. The second quarter will begin on November 6.
For schools with training in trimesters
With trimester training, calculating the start of the break is somewhat easier. In this process, rest time and study time alternate with enviable regularity: four or five weeks of study are followed by a week off. That is, a short break in the middle of the trimester and rest at the end of the trimester. It may seem to some that with such a training system there are more days off than with a quarterly system. In fact, the total rest time in both systems is almost the same - the difference can be literally a couple of days.
Students on the trimester system will be able to relax twice in the fall - at the beginning of October and at the end of November.
- Autumn holidays 2018-2019 in the middle of the term - from 8 to 14 October
- Autumn holidays 2018-2019 at the end of the term - from November 19 to 25.
School plans: study and recreation
How is the schedule made? school year? Why does the study break fall on a different date every year? Is it really impossible to once and for all stipulate in school rules strict dates for the first and last days rest, so as not to ask the question every year, when will the rest begin? Let's try to figure it out.
The school administration ultimately determines the time period during which the break in studies occurs. This right is reserved for educational institutions at the legislative level. The reason is simple: schools do not always have the opportunity to follow the curriculum “from start to finish,” clearly following every letter and every number written in the documents. In fact, sometimes force majeure circumstances occur, due to which plans have to be adjusted during the training process. Accidents (for example, a sewer or heating pipeline break), natural disasters (severe frosts or rains that threaten flooding), a state of emergency in the region, disease outbreaks (flu quarantine, for example) - there can be a lot of reasons. And in order to ensure that the educational process does not suffer from force majeure, schools have the right to change the schedule - reducing or postponing the start and end dates of quarters or trimesters.
Before the start of the school year, the Ministry of Education issues an order indicating the total duration of study time and rest time. Thus, in 2018-2019, a total of at least 30 days are allocated for vacations. And regardless of whether training is conducted in trimesters or quarters, students in all schools in the country will have to rest for at least a month for the entire year (not counting the summer break).
The decision on the start and end time of holidays in the new academic year will be made by each educational institution independently. The dates of the 2018-2019 school holidays in a particular educational institution depend on many factors:
- training by trimesters, quarters or modules;
- weather;
- climatic conditions of the area;
- The Ministry of Education sets recommended holiday dates, but final decision still remains with the management of educational institutions.
How to determine vacation time
The Law “On Education” gives the right to all educational institutions to independently set vacation dates, according to the schedule approved by the Ministry of Education and Science, now the Ministry of Education, annually. The total number of days of school holidays and the number of rest periods does not change.
During the school year, schoolchildren have 4 vacations - every season. Summer holidays last three months. At least 30 days must fall on the rest of the holidays: autumn and spring - a week, winter - two weeks.
School administrations can change the start and end dates of vacations, guided by the curriculum. School management may reschedule vacations due to quarantine, weather, emergency situations in the region and in the educational institution.
Autumn holidays in the 2018-2019 academic years
The first quarter will begin on September 3, because the first day of autumn falls on a Saturday. Some schools, paying tribute to tradition, may hold a ceremonial assembly on September 1.
After working for almost two months, schoolchildren will go on autumn holidays on October 29. Until November 5 inclusive, they will be able to sleep longer and enjoy the last warm days. Since the national holiday of November 4, National Unity Day, falls on a Sunday in 2018, the day off is moved to October 5. As a result, students will begin second quarter classes on Tuesday with an extra day of rest.
Autumn holidays in 2018 – 10.29.2018-11.5.2018
Winter holidays in the 2018-2019 academic years
The 2nd quarter is the shortest and goes by quickly. Children look forward to the winter holidays with trepidation, as they coincide with New Year's holidays. They will have to be patient and study until December 28-29. The issue is the postponement of holidays at the state level. Monday, December 31st, has been declared a day off; adults and children will work for it on Saturday the 29th. Although it is unlikely that there will be lessons on the schedule that day.
The holidays will last until 01/10/2019. But it is possible that a number of educational institutions will give students the opportunity not to remember their lessons until the Old New Year.
Winter holidays 2018-2019 – 12/31/2018-01/10/2019
Vacations for first grade students
Since the third quarter is the longest, additional winter breaks are provided for first-graders. Most often they occur in the second week of February. In 2019 this is from 11.02. until 17.02.
Spring break in 2018-2019 academic years
Not only younger schoolchildren, but also other students are the most tired in the 3rd quarter. It is the longest and is decisive in determining annual grades. The children try and study their lessons diligently. The reward is spring break and the first warmth of spring.
In the last week of March, from the 25th, young cyclists, skateboarders and rollerbladers appear on the streets. The beginning of the last school term traditionally falls on April 1 - April Fool's Day. The last push before the end of the school year.
Spring holidays 2019 – 03/25/2019-03/31/2019
Summer holidays in the 2018-2019 academic years
Another school year is over. The most long-awaited, beloved summer holidays are ahead. May 25, 2019 falls on a Saturday. Therefore, at the discretion of the school administration, ceremonies dedicated to the Last Bell will be held on May 24 or 27. The students will fly to children's camps, to the countryside and to the village to visit relatives. An important time for exams and further self-determination will come for graduates.
Summer holidays 2019 – 06/1/2019-08/31/2019
Vacations for those who study in trimesters
Today, training based on a trimester or modular system is becoming popular. Study time is divided into six courses of 30 school days, or 5-6 weeks of study, followed by a week's rest. In the 2018-2019 academic year, holidays may be on the following dates:
- 10.2018-14.10.2018;
- 11.2018-25.11.2018;
- 12.2018-10.01.2019;
- 02.2019-25.02.2019;
- 04.2019-14.04.2019;
- summer holidays – 3 months.
With this schedule, first-graders do not have additional holidays. The total rest time will be 30-35 days.
In accordance with the order of the Ministry of Education, each school institution independently chooses both the education system (quarter or trimester) and the dates of vacation time. However, there are mandatory requirements that must be adhered to in this regard:
- Vacations must begin on the first day of the week - Monday.
- The start date cannot be shifted by more than 2 weeks.
- The total number of rest days for schoolchildren should not be less than 30 (excluding summer holidays).
Thus, the school management independently determines the start and end days of the rest periods of its students, without deviating from general provisions Ministry of Education.
Vacations are a long-awaited time for every schoolchild. This is a period when you can take a break from studying and devote time to educational and entertainment activities: attend various events, concerts, museums, travel to other cities or countries.
The vacation schedule for 2017-2018 is of interest to both students and their parents, and here's why: they need the vacation calendar for 2017-2018 to plan vacations at work in advance. After all, many of them prefer to travel and relax with their children during their vacation. In addition, this is a great opportunity for the family to be together.
The 2017/2018 vacation calendar is formed by the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, and educational institutions - schools, colleges and universities independently choose the vacation period for the 2017-2018 academic year. When forming, the management of an educational institution may well deviate from the dates established by the Ministry by no more than 2 weeks in one direction or another. While universities and colleges, as well as private educational institutions, often deviate from these rules, most schools try to comply with the approved schedule.
Holiday calendar 2017/2018
The vacation schedule for the coming 2017/2018 year has not yet received confirmation from the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, however, today, after analyzing the schedule of last year, it is possible to preliminarily determine the schedule for the coming weekend. For those who study in quarters and for educational institutions working in trimesters, the weekend dates will be different.
So, here is an approximate vacation schedule for the 2017-2018 academic year in St. Petersburg and Moscow for those who study at school on the quarter system:
- The academic year will begin on Friday, September 1st. Autumn vacation will begin on October 30 and will last until November 7 (Tuesday). One day off is added to the vacation week due to the fact that on November 4 the country celebrates National Unity Day. Therefore, the guys have an extra day of rest.
- The winter vacation will last from December 25 (Monday) to January 9 (Tuesday).
Holidays for first-graders in 2017/2018 are additionally planned from February 19 (Mon) to February 25 (Sun). 26 first-graders will return to school again.
- Spring break are planned from March 26 to April 2.
In the summer, schoolchildren will be able to go on vacation from the first of June for exactly three months, as always, until August 31 inclusive.
Students junior classes It is expected that they will be released early - as of May 25, they will be able to go on vacation.
It is worth mentioning that the management of each school has the right to shift the holidays by 1-2 weeks. Therefore, the given data is only indicative.
Holidays 2017/2018 for students by trimester
The vacation schedule in schools where the educational process is divided into trimesters differs from “quarters”. However, it is planned to combine winter holidays in them with winter holidays in traditional schools for the general convenience of all schoolchildren and their parents. So, vacations in “trimester” schools are divided by season, and each season is divided into two parts:
- Autumn: October 2 - 8 and November 17 - 23.
- Winter: as in other schools - December 27 - January 8.
- Spring: February 21 - 27, and the second part from April 10 to 16.
- Summer: traditionally May 31 - September 1.
This preliminary schedule for the coming school year will help schoolchildren and their parents plan vacations and leisure time in advance, which is very convenient, especially if long-distance travel and significant events are planned.