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St Merryn School
Trace · URN 137623

How we read St Merryn School

last read 26 Aug 2026, 14:19 UTC · took 43.1s · 40 dates across 2 school years

Nobody types these dates in. A program finds whatever the school publishes its term dates on and reads it. This page is the working out: the files we downloaded, and every date we got out of them. Open the same file and you can check us.

Find the page

saved for next time

We start at the school's website and follow it to whatever it publishes term dates on, in this case a file on stmerryn.kernowlearning.co.uk. That address is saved, so every later check goes straight there.

Download it

sha-256

5 files came back. We fingerprint the contents (a744570685…69f9936134). If the fingerprint matches last time's, the school hasn't changed anything and we stop here.

Read it

43.1s

This school publishes its year as a colour-coded chart rather than a list of dates, so a model reads it the way you would — square by square, working out from the key what each colour means. 3 other files were read and produced nothing useful.

Work out the dates

plain code

Ordinary code takes it from here, pairing those sentences into terms and filling in the holidays between them. It also checks the year adds up: if the dates leave too few school days, we throw the whole read away rather than publish it.

Save it

one copy

The dates get written down once. The school's page, your calendar feed and this trace all read that same copy, so they can't disagree with each other.

Where it came from

what we downloaded, and what we actually used

Every date we read off the chart

the file itself is linked above
2025/2620 dates
  • School Closed1 Sept
  • INSET Day2 Sept
  • INSET Day3 Sept
  • Autumn Term4 Sept – 24 Oct
  • October Half Term27 Oct – 31 Oct
  • INSET Day3 Nov
  • Autumn Term4 Nov – 19 Dec
  • Christmas Holiday22 Dec – 2 Jan
  • Spring Term5 Jan – 13 Feb
  • February Half Term16 Feb – 20 Feb
  • INSET Day23 Feb
  • Spring Term24 Feb – 2 Apr
  • Easter Holiday3 Apr – 17 Apr
  • Summer Term20 Apr – 30 Apr
  • INSET Day1 May
  • Bank Holiday4 May
  • Summer Term5 May – 22 May
  • May Half Term25 May – 29 May
  • Summer Term1 Jun – 22 Jul
  • Summer Holiday23 Jul – 31 Aug
2026/2720 dates
  • School Closed1 Sept – 2 Sept
  • INSET Day3 Sept
  • INSET Day4 Sept
  • Autumn Term7 Sept – 21 Oct
  • INSET Day22 Oct
  • INSET Day23 Oct
  • October Half Term26 Oct – 30 Oct
  • Autumn Term2 Nov – 18 Dec
  • Christmas Holiday21 Dec – 1 Jan
  • Spring Term4 Jan – 12 Feb
  • February Half Term15 Feb – 19 Feb
  • INSET Day22 Feb
  • Spring Term23 Feb – 25 Mar
  • Easter Holiday26 Mar – 9 Apr
  • Summer Term12 Apr – 30 Apr
  • Bank Holiday3 May
  • Summer Term4 May – 28 May
  • May Half Term31 May – 4 Jun
  • Summer Term7 Jun – 23 Jul
  • Summer Holiday26 Jul – 31 Aug

A chart states its dates in colour, not in words, so there is nothing to quote back at you. What we can show is every date we took off it — open the file above and the two should agree square for square.

What we saved

the single copy the school page and your calendar both read

This run

fingerprint
45c8ac8acf…3897d124a3
saved at
25 Aug 2026, 20:43 UTC
run signature
1b84588f92…a2e4e4a099
dates published
41
last confirmed
26 August 2026

Why your calendar doesn't fill up with duplicates

Each event gets an ID built from who said it, what kind of day it is, and when it starts. Read the school again tomorrow and the same day comes out with the same ID, so your calendar updates the entry it already has rather than adding a second one.

# same inputs, same ID, every time
sha256(owner | kind | start)[:24]
  → a4384bdd…f1763a2c@termsync.co.uk