Parent/Carer Information - Student Term Dates 2024/25

Residential students return to College during the afternoon of the day before specified return date (please contact Kim Tierney, Residential Services Manager, or your Home Team Leader for more detailed information). 

 

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Autumn Term 2025 

Term starts (New Residential Students): Wednesday 3rd September (to arrive after 4pm) 
Term starts (New Day Students): Thursday 4th September  
Term starts (Returning Residential Students): Sunday 7th September (to arrive after 4pm) 
Term starts (Returning Day Students): Monday 8th September

Half-term: Monday 27 October 2025 (Starts) to Tuesday 4th November 2025 (Ends) 
Term ends: Friday 19 December 2025 

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Spring Term 2026 

Term starts: Wednesday 7th January 2026 
Half-term: Monday 16 February 2026 (Starts) to Tuesday 24th February 2026 (Ends) 
Term ends: Friday 27 March 2026 

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Summer Term 2026 

Term starts: Wednesday 15th April 2026 
Half-term: Monday 25th May 2026(Starts) to Friday 29th May 2026 (Ends) 
Term ends: Friday 10th July 2026 (Students finish at 1:30pm) 

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REPORTING STUDENT ABSENCE OR APPOINTMENTS

If you are unable to attend College, please ensure that you phone the absence reporting line on 0121 428 5098 before 9.00am on the morning of every day that you are absent. You can also email absences to absence@qac.ac.uk

Please leave the following information:

• Full Name
• Group
• Reason for Absence (Local Authorities are no longer accepting "unwell/poorly" for reasons for an authorised absence, so please give as much detail as possible)
• Date of Return

PARENT/CARER CODE OF CONDUCT 

QAC welcomes a mutually positive and constructive relationship with families and carers and encourages relationships based on an ethos of openness and trust. Our Parent/Carer Code of Conduct is attached below and is applicable across all sites.