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Secondary • Horsham • RH13 5NTLocal authority: West Sussex

These are The Forest School's own term dates for 2025/26 and 2026/27 — read from theforestschool.com. The school hasn't published 2027/28 yet, so those years are filled from West Sussex council's calendar: term dates and holidays, but not the school's own training days, usually five a year. Expect a few extra closed days. We re-check every few days and swap in the school's dates the moment they appear.

How we read these
  1. 1Opened the term-dates page on theforestschool.com.
  2. 2Downloaded 2 documents, 1 of which we used: school-term-calendar-2026-27-res.pdf, document.
  3. 3Read the dates out of the document with our language model.
  4. 4Kept 36 dates of the school's own for 25/26, 26/27; 27/28 is West Sussex council's dates until the school publishes its own — and we re-check every few days, so they stay right on their own.

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Summer Holiday now

Back to school Wed 2 Septin 6 days

First day off after that: INSET Day · Fri 2 Oct in 5 wks

Days off · 2026/2027

Today

Summer Holiday

back to school Wed 2 Sept

Summer Bank Holiday

INSET Day

in school · 4½ weeks

INSET Day

in school · 3 weeks

October Half Term

back to school Mon 2 Nov

in school · 4 weeks

INSET Day

in school · 3 weeks · last day Fri 18 Dec

Christmas Holiday

back to school Mon 4 Jan

in school · 3 weeks

INSET Day

in school · 3 weeks

February Half Term

back to school Mon 22 Feb

in school · 5 weeks · last day Thu 25 Mar

Easter Holiday

back to school Mon 12 Apr

in school · 3 weeks

Early May Bank Holiday

in school · 4 weeks

May Half Term

back to school Mon 7 Jun

in school · 3 weeks

INSET Day

in school · 3½ weeks · last day Wed 21 Jul

Summer Holiday

back to school Thu 2 Sept

in school · 7½ weeks

Days off · 2027/2028

Autumn Half Term

back to school Mon 1 Nov

in school · 7 weeks · last day Fri 17 Dec

Christmas Holiday

back to school Tue 4 Jan

in school · 6 weeks

Spring Half Term

back to school Mon 21 Feb

in school · 6 weeks · last day Fri 31 Mar

Easter Holiday

back to school Tue 18 Apr

in school · 2 weeks

Early May Bank Holiday

in school · 4 weeks

Summer Half Term

back to school Mon 5 Jun

in school · 7 weeks · last day Fri 21 Jul

Summer Holiday

The Forest School term dates at a glance

When does The Forest School go back?
The Forest School returns on Wednesday, 2 September 2026.
When does The Forest School break up for Summer?
The Forest School breaks up on Friday, 31 July 2026, the Summer Holiday runs from Monday, 24 August 2026 to Thursday, 27 August 2026 and pupils return on Wednesday, 2 September 2026.
When does The Forest School break up for October Half Term?
The Forest School breaks up on Friday, 23 October 2026, the October Half Term runs from Monday, 26 October 2026 to Friday, 30 October 2026 and pupils return on Monday, 2 November 2026.
When does The Forest School break up for Christmas?
The Forest School breaks up on Friday, 18 December 2026, the Christmas Holiday runs from Monday, 21 December 2026 to Friday, 1 January 2027 and pupils return on Monday, 4 January 2027.

Checked against the school's own page on .