How we read Great Bowden Academy, A Church of England Primary School
last read 26 Aug 2026, 20:40 UTC · took 28.2s · 43 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 timeWe start at the school's website and follow it to whatever it publishes term dates on, in this case a file on greatbowdenacademy.uk. That address is saved, so every later check goes straight there.
Download it
sha-25616 files came back. We fingerprint the contents (855973f474…9d165cb562). If the fingerprint matches last time's, the school hasn't changed anything and we stop here.
Read it
28.2sThis 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. 14 other files were read and produced nothing useful.
Work out the dates
plain codeOrdinary 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 copyThe 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- greatbowdenacademy.uk/calendar/ics.aspnot used · 1 dates
We read 1 dates out of this one.
- greatbowdenacademy.uk/content/not used · 0 dates
We read this one and found no term dates in it.
- learnat.uk/_site/data/files/images/schools/F75F59F05306AA32EBF719F093BB13A7.jpgnot used · 0 dates
We read this one and found no term dates in it.
- learnat.uk/_site/data/files/images/images/A4CBF825CD8FB0C0FDD7288B58AB9D63.jpgused · 21 dates
We read 21 dates out of this one.
- learnat.uk/_site/data/files/images/images/9BAAA19F4337EE74BBA444E600EEFD46.jpgused · 22 dates
We read 22 dates out of this one.
- learnat.uk/_site/data/files/images/schools/C3452B06ADB2AB824097FDE15C28B633.jpgnot used · 0 dates
We read this one and found no term dates in it.
- learnat.uk/_site/data/files/images/schools/73CA649F98F267F107A67D1810C6CBAD.jpgnot used · 0 dates
We read this one and found no term dates in it.
- learnat.uk/_site/data/files/images/schools/9CD0E70B35897E28942B1954620F7B5D.JPGnot used · 0 dates
We read this one and found no term dates in it.
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We read this one and found no term dates in it.
- learnat.uk/_site/data/files/images/schools/B681239C3267DEFDC0B01D36A87A49F4.jpgnot used · 0 dates
We read this one and found no term dates in it.
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We read this one and found no term dates in it.
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We read this one and found no term dates in it.
- greatbowdenacademy.uk/_site/data/files/images/slideshow/3/2B93B5E616FDCAB33C1B8D124B322A78.JPGnot used · 0 dates
We read this one and found no term dates in it.
- learnat.uk/_site/data/files/images/schools/175BADFC7C414C7B796092A244C28D00.jpgnot used · 0 dates
We read this one and found no term dates in it.
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We read this one and found no term dates in it.
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We read this one and found no term dates in it.
Every date we read off the chart
the file itself is linked above- Summer Holiday1 Aug – 19 Aug
- INSET Day20 Aug
- INSET Day21 Aug
- INSET Day22 Aug
- Bank Holiday25 Aug
- Autumn Term26 Aug – 17 Oct
- October Half Term20 Oct – 24 Oct
- INSET Day27 Oct
- INSET Day28 Oct
- Autumn Term29 Oct – 19 Dec
- Christmas Holiday22 Dec – 2 Jan
- Spring Term5 Jan – 13 Feb
- February Half Term16 Feb – 20 Feb
- Spring Term23 Feb – 27 Mar
- Easter Holiday30 Mar – 10 Apr
- Summer Term13 Apr – 1 May
- Bank Holiday4 May
- Summer Term5 May – 22 May
- May Half Term25 May – 29 May
- Summer Term1 Jun – 9 Jul
- Summer Holiday10 Jul – 31 Aug
- Summer Holiday3 Aug – 21 Aug
- INSET Day24 Aug
- INSET Day25 Aug
- Autumn Term26 Aug – 28 Aug
- Bank Holiday31 Aug
- Autumn Term1 Sept – 16 Oct
- October Half Term19 Oct – 23 Oct
- INSET Day26 Oct
- Autumn Term27 Oct – 18 Dec
- Christmas Holiday21 Dec – 1 Jan
- Spring Term4 Jan – 12 Feb
- February Half Term15 Feb – 19 Feb
- Spring Term22 Feb – 19 Mar
- Easter Holiday22 Mar – 2 Apr
- Summer Term5 Apr – 30 Apr
- Bank Holiday3 May
- Summer Term4 May – 28 May
- May Half Term31 May – 4 Jun
- Summer Term7 Jun – 9 Jul
- INSET Day12 Jul
- INSET Day13 Jul
- Summer Holiday14 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 readThis run
- fingerprint
- 995e190616…84d8f561d7
- saved at
- 25 Aug 2026, 20:43 UTC
- run signature
- 02610831d8…7fd02ca9e0
- dates published
- 33
- 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