Posted by Owen Roberts on November 19, 2006 at 02:22:10 from 195.92.67.66 user OwenRoberts.
In Reply to: Re: Holiday Tasks, more on posted by Kathy_S on November 18, 2006 at 18:33:24:
I was always suprised that the S&A's had to do holiday tasks during the summer holidays.
School set tasks were not usually given during the summer holidays, as one was (hopefully)going up a year with the start of the Michaelmas Term towards the end of September. This usually meant that the master who took one for, say, physics at the end of the summer term would not be the one who taught physics in the Michaelmas term.
However holiday tasks were set by one's parents in the summer holidays, usually as a result of another poor school report.
There was work set by the school in the Winter and Easter holidays.