Child care school holidays: Managing School Holidays and Vacations

Managing School Holidays and Vacations

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Not surprisingly, some single and working parents have grown to dread school vacations, legal holidays (like Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Washington’s Birthday), and “teacher in-service days.” These are days when the child is out of school but parents usually have to be at work. To make matters worse, care givers whom you might rely on at other times of the year often ask for time off during holidays, and community activities like art classes and Scouting often are cancelled too.

The good side of these situations is that you know they are coming and can plan for them. To help in that process, get copies of your child’s school schedule as early as possible so you are aware of vacations several months in advance. Children’s vacation schedules often dictate family vacation plans. With sufficient advance notice, you may be able to block out your own vacation time to coincide with that of your youngster.

Few parents have as much vacation time available as do their children, so arrangements have to be made for child care and supervision within the frame work of the demands of the parents’ jobs. If your spouse has some flexibility in his or her work schedule, divide the home responsibilities so one of you takes time off during different parts of the children’s vacation. Some couples are able to work out a plan where Mom is home in the morning, and Dad replaces her in the afternoon; perhaps one or both can work flexible schedules (6 A.M. to 2 P.M.; 2:30 P.M. to 10:30 P.M.) So that at least one parent is home at all times.

Fortunately, businesses are becoming more sensitive to the family needs of their employees. The federal Medical and Family Leave Act of 1993 is helpful to parents upon the birth or adoption of a child, or when a child is ill, but it does not have any provisions covering school holidays and vacations.

Sometimes neither you nor your spouse will be able to get off work. Or you will need a backup or alternative strategy for unexpected job demands or the sudden loss of a caretaker, both of which require some last-minute juggling of schedules. It is important that school-age children are always supervised, directly if possible and indirectly if not. Indirect supervision means providing a safe environment and a structured schedule of activities, including regular times to check in, even by phone, with a responsible adult. This latter option should be considered only for mature preteenagers and is never the preferred alternative.

When you can’t break away from the office, another option is to call upon extended family members to help. Some parents are able to work out a timetable with several families, where each assumes the caretaking responsibilities for all the children one day a week, or they trade hours of babysitting with each other. Some high school and college students, or after-school child care employees, are willing to work on holidays, perhaps coming to your home to assume the care of the children from several families. (Many high schools and colleges have job-placement offices to find employment for students on vacation; ask for and check references before hiring these young adults for child care.) You may also inquire about special holiday programs and camps that might be planned by local YMCAs, Boys and Girls Clubs, and other com munity organizations. If none exist, gather some parents together and, as a group, urge local organizations or city leaders to provide holiday activities for children.

For some parents of school-age children, the best long-term solution is to work at home all the time, often in a small home-based business of their own. However, while this can be an ideal option, it is not available to everyone, and working at home poses problems of its own.

Last Updated

3/8/2022

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Caring for Your School-Age Child: Ages 5 to 12 (Copyright © 2004 American Academy of Pediatrics)

The information contained on this Web site should not be used as a substitute for the medical care and advice of your pediatrician. There may be variations in treatment that your pediatrician may recommend based on individual facts and circumstances.

5 Child Care Options & Holiday Activities

Having a hard time finding child care during school holidays? Here are five activities to consider.

By Anita Sharma

It is that time of year again, when lots of school breaks suddenly happen back to back. For kids it’s exciting they do not have go to school or do homework for a short period of time while they spend time relaxing. But what happens when parents have to work and there is no one to help them watch the kids? Discover ways to keep their brains active with these fun holiday activities paired with solutions you can turn to when school is out:

TV/Tablet/Mobile Devices

Parents can try to entertain kids by using screen time to distract them and keep them entertained while they work. This way parents will not have to pay extra money for child care and they will get to spend more time with their kids. We’ve all seen kids with devices at store and restaurants in an effort to keep them out of trouble while their parents shop or enjoy their dinner.

Cons: Kids may only be entertained for a limited amount of time. (Phone meetings may be challenging if the child needs your attention in the middle of the call.) According the American Association of Pediatrics, there are concerns around too much screen time use because it is addicting, increases BMI, and makes children lose valuable sleep.

Price: Free

Day Camp

Many local activity providers host day camps on the school holidays such as Veterans Day or Thanksgiving Week. They usually offer full day sessions that allow parents to work from 9-5. You can find a wide variety of day camps for school holidays on the ActivityHero marketplace. These camps are guaranteed to excite and engage children, whatever their interests might be and give them useful skills for the future. At camp, kids will make new friends who have the same interests and are a similar age while crafting new holiday activities.  

Cons: Parents will have to drop off and then pick up their kids.

Price: $8-18 per hour

Sitters 

Sitters will take care of your kids at your house, which will make it easier for you to run out of the house while your kids are eating breakfast in their pajamas. Neighbors and friends can be a good source for sitter recommendations. 

Cons: The sitter you like may not be available for the dates and times you need.

Price: $10-20 per hour for one child. Prices vary by region.

Day Care

Day care is the middle ground between camps and sitters. The caregiver may be hosting several kids at a home or center, and there are usually fewer kids per caregiver than you’d have at camp, which may be a plus if your child is less than 5 years old. You can often find daycares through your local county resource center, such as Children’s Council in San Francisco. The Children’s Council even helps families pay for childcare if they cannot afford it themselves.  

Cons: Parents will have to drop off and pick up their children from day care. Not all day cares will accept new families who need care for only a few days or weeks.

Price: $10-15 per hour for full time care

Online & On-Demand 

Explore new extracurricular and enrichment activities this holiday from anywhere through a mixture of live online camps or classes on set days/times paired with on-demand activities that can be done at anytime. Different than passive screen-time, kids can stay active with a dance class or chat and make new friends in an art class. Independent and asynchronous learning fun is also available with 700+ choices on ActivityHero On-Demand.

Cons: Parents will have to drop off and pick up their children from day care. Not all day cares will accept new families who need care for only a few days or weeks.

Price: Options as low as $0 per hour with a preview camp or class experience.

For more holiday fun, read “8 Great Holiday Activities You Can Do With Your Kids“

90,000 summer holidays can be extended in 2023 – legal support

Author Petr Kuznetsov for a reading of 13 minutes published .01.2022 updated 01/14/2022

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The probability of extension of the summer school houses of the high. First of all, we are talking about six regions in which the most difficult situation with coronavirus is observed. As for the remaining areas, a decision on them will be made closer to September 2021.

September 1 is not for everyone!

The question of the timely start of the new school year worries all parents and schoolchildren. On the one hand, the postponement of the start of studies from September 1, 2021 to a later date will violate many of the plans of parents, will force them to look for options for additional stay with the child during this time, on the other hand, everyone is afraid of the uncontrolled spread of the epidemic and creating additional danger to the health of children and parents.

What do officials say about this?

At a meeting with President Vladimir Putin, Minister of Health Mikhail Murashko noted that along with an increase in the number of vaccinated citizens, the situation in some regions is getting worse. The increase in cases continues and has listed the regions with the most alarming situation. They included:

Tuva , Komi Republic , Sevastopol , Magadan Region , Astrakhan Region , Samara , Krasnoyarsky Krai 0012 . According to Murashko, additional teams of specialists were sent there.

On Thursday, August 5, 2021, she said that it is early in the country to ease restrictions on coronavirus. According to her, despite the fact that the number of new detected cases per day is steadily declining in 22 regions of the country, the daily daily increase in cases of coronavirus is recorded in 35 regions of . Moreover, in 15 of them this figure exceeds the national average.

“The situation is developing at high numbers for each region, and this suggests that it is too early to ease restrictions,” she said in an interview with Naila Asker-zade on a program on the Rossiya 1 TV channel.

The level of immunization of the population sufficient to stop the circulation of coronavirus in the country has not yet been reached, the head of Rospotrebnadzor emphasized. “The number of vaccinated people is growing and the number of those who have been ill is growing. But until we reach the level to say that everything, the virus does not have the ability to circulate, ”she said.

“In 35 constituent entities of the Russian Federation, today we are still seeing an increase in the incidence, a worsening of the epidemiological situation. And besides this, in 15 of them we see a deterioration in the situation with an excess of the average Russian indicators. The situation is developing at high numbers for each region, and this suggests that it is too early to ease restrictions,” she said.

As for the possible extension of the summer school holidays, Anna Popova expressed her hope that before the start of the new school year there would be time to take the situation under control and there would be no need to impose any restrictions.

A total of 6,379,904 cases of COVID-19 were detected in the Russian Federation, including 23,120 cases over the past day. Since the beginning of the spread of coronavirus, the number of deaths has reached 162,509, 5,700,212 people have recovered.

Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Sergey Kravtsov on the start of the new (2021) academic year

Minister of Education Sergei Kravtsov said that in the new academic year all the necessary security measures developed by Rospotrebnadzor will be observed.

“In general, we are preparing to traditionally open our schools, but it is clear that if for some reason the epidemiological situation in a particular municipality does not allow this, then, of course, the health of children, teachers, and parents is put at the forefront.”

As always, the main responsibility for the decision to extend the summer school holidays will lie with the regions. On the one hand, this will facilitate decision-making “on the ground”, on the other hand, it will create confusion in the educational space of Russia, which we saw last year.

“First Signs”

Against the backdrop of traditional reassuring statements by the Ministry of Education, some regions have already begun preparations for a possible extension of the summer holidays and changes in the work of schools in the new academic year. One of the first to report such a possibility was the government of the Novosibirsk region. They do not exclude the option that the summer holidays for schoolchildren will last longer than usual.

“We will make a decision to extend the holidays for schoolchildren in the second half of August, as soon as we decide, we will immediately announce,” said KP-Novosibirsk

Minister of Education of the Novosibirsk Region Sergey Fedorchuk .

Most of the regions have taken a wait-and-see attitude and are in no hurry to make any statements on this matter, waiting for a “go-ahead from above”.

In conclusion

Recall that now the main increase in the incidence of covid in the world is given by the Indian strain “Delta” , for which the currently used vaccines are much less effective than for the zero (Wuhan) strain, for which they, in fact, are intended. That is why there are many cases of the disease in already vaccinated people. WHO has officially warned about the danger of this strain.

As for the start of the new school year, the decision to extend the summer holidays (or switch to distance learning), in addition to the epidemiological situation, may also be affected by preparations for the mass vaccination of schoolchildren. As you know, according to A. Ginzburg, he promised the President to complete preparations for the vaccination of schoolchildren by September 15-20, 2021.

Additional information from 14.08.21

According to the MK, seven schools in Buryatia will meet the beginning of studies on September 1 in a remote format.

The decision was made at a meeting of the Republican Operational Headquarters to prevent the threat of coronavirus infection.

We are talking about three-shift schools No. 8, 44, 19 in Ulan-Ude, as well as Sotnikovskaya, Poselskaya, Suzhinskaya secondary schools in the Ivolginsky district and school No. 1 in the Khorinsky district of Buryatia. At least 25-30 percent of students should be transferred to distance learning in these seven schools.

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Schools are lagging behind the curriculum. If the situation does not improve, the children can continue their studies in the summer. The head of Rosobrnadzor, Anzor Muzaev, spoke about this possibility.

An unexpectedly strong autumn wave of coronavirus and problems with mass vaccination of the population may lead to the transfer of part of the school year to the summer months.

This was stated by Anzor Muzaev on December 4, 2020, during his visit to the situational information center for exam control (SIC) in Gorbunki.

“Now Rospotrebnadzor, the Ministry of Education, Rosobrnadzor and the Ministry of Education and Science, including the Council of Rectors, are in close contact. We are working on the issue. One of the options for the proposed standard schedule, submitted for discussion

, is the extension of the school year. But once again it is necessary to study the situation in all subjects and enlist their support: they know better on the ground, ”said the head of Rosobrnadzor.

He also touched upon the problems of the OGE and the Unified State Examination. Due to the ongoing disruptions in the educational process caused by the pandemic and the disruption of the preparation stages, the holding of these exams may be in jeopardy.

“Closer to spring we will discuss changing the dates depending on the situation. It is important to create equal conditions for all graduates – the hours that they spent face-to-face with teachers, without creating an additional nervous environment. “If they say (regions) that everything suits them, we will return to the fact that in June we still have to take the exam,” Muzaev said.

Note: Previously, some government and public organizations have expressed the need to completely cancel exams in such circumstances.

✅ The first signs: some regions have already announced plans to extend the school year.

The Sverdlovsk authorities want to extend the school year to June for schoolchildren. Here is what Vice Governor Pavel Krekov said about this :

“This is already a federal decision. Now we are expertly working on a slight extension of the academic year. The exam will be, but in the same mode as in 2020.

Planned extension until the end of June . ”

Krekov said that the quality of distance learning “suffers”, children receive knowledge partially, do not fully master the program. Therefore, a slight extension of the academic year would be justified.

The school year can be extended at schools in the Novosibirsk region .

“The decision on the timing of the extension will be made by each school in the region independently,” said the Minister of Education of the region Sergei Fedorchuk.

Autumn holidays lasted three weeks due to the increase in the incidence in the region. After the holidays, training in schools in the Novosibirsk region started on November 16 in a mixed format in order to protect children and teachers. It is possible that the situation with the extension of the winter holidays will be repeated, which will further disrupt the schedule for the passage of the material.

At present, students of grades 1-5 and 11 study full-time, the rest of the grades and small schools study remotely.

“Someone can extend the school year, someone can shorten the rest of the holidays. We do not have a plan for the general extension of the school year, but in

separate schools , I already know this, so I officially declare that it will be extended , ”Fedorchuk specified.

He also added that the authorities are considering the option of full-time education of schoolchildren from the beginning of the third quarter.

Today, about 98% of students in the universities of the region have switched to distance learning!

Yekaterinburg

Ekaterina Sibirtseva, Vice Mayor of Yekaterinburg for Social Policy, on live e1.ru, answering a question about school holidays in 2021, announced changes in the schedule, as well as the possibility of extending the school year.

“We will need to make and adjust the study schedule. Something to do with holiday holidays in the spring.

We are obliged to issue a full school curriculum in the amount of hours in which it is provided, ”said the vice mayor. The option of extending the school year will also be considered.

And here are the first statements on this subject from First Deputy Minister of Education Dmitry Glushko :

“As we understand, school hours, school weeks, school days, which should be in accordance with the program, must be completed. There will be several options for the work plan of educational institutions, the department will present them soon.”

Thus, the updated curriculum for the second half of the year will affect all Russian schools.

School holidays schedule, start and end dates of the new academic year for students of secondary educational institutions for the 2022/2023 academic year.

Beginning of the school year in 2022 – First bell – September 1 (Thursday)

School holidays for quarterly studies

The quarterly education system is traditional for Russian schools. With this schedule, the academic year is divided into 2 semesters, each of which in turn consists of 2 quarters.

• Autumn: October 29, 2022-November 6, 2022
• Winter: December 31, 2022-January 8, 2023
• Additional for 1 class: February 18, 2023-February 26, 2023
• Spring: 18 March 2023-March 26, 2023

The end of the academic year:

• 5-11 grades: May 17, 2023,
• 1-4 grades: May 22, 2023

Dates modular system

Upon completion of 1 module on October 8, 2022 – October 16, 2022

• , at the end of 2 modules on November 19, 2022 – November 27, 2022
• Upon completion of 3 modules on December 31, 2022 – January 8, 2023
• upon completion 4 MODULES February 18, 2023 – February 26, 2023
• AFTER COMPLETION OF MODULE 5 April 8, 2023 – April 16, 2023

YEAR END DATES:

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• 5, 8 and 10 May on May 29, 2023
• 1-4 grades May 31, 2023

Date of school holidays of the learning system

• First: October 29, 2022
• Second: 31 December 2022-January 8, 2023
• Third: February 18, 2023-February 26, 2023
• Fourth: April 8, 2023-April 16, 2023

Cumbering date:

• 5-11 5-11 5-11 5-11 5-11 May 17, 2023
• Grades 1-4 May 24, 2023

TOTAL, autumn, winter and spring school holidays for the new academic year will be held in the following regions of Russia:

Adygea, Altai, Bashkiria, Buryatia, Dagestan, Ingushetia Kalmykia, KChR, Karelia, Komi, Crimea, Mari El, Mordovia, Sakha (Yakutia), North Ossetia (Alania), Tatarstan, TYVA, Udmurtia, Khakassia, Chechnya, Chuvashia, Altai Territory, Trans-Baikal Territory, Kamchatka Territory, Krasnodar Territory, Krasnoyarsk Territory, Perm Territory, Perm Territory, Primorsky Territory, Stavropol Territory, Khabarovsk Territory, Amur Region, Astrakhan Region, Arkhangelsk Region, Belgorod Region, Bryansk Region, Vladimir Region, Volgograd Region, Vologda Region, Voronezh Region, Ivanovo Region, Irkutsk Region , Kaliningrad region, Kaluga region, Kemerovo region, Kirov region, Kostroma region, Kurgan region, Kursk region, Leningrad region, Lipetsk region, Mag Adana Region, Moscow Region, Murmansk Region, Nizhny Novgorod Region, Novgorod Region, Novosibirsk Region, Omsk Region, Orenburg Region, Orel Region, Penza Region, Pskov Region, Rostov Region, Ryazan Region, Samara Region, Saratov Region, Sakhalin Region, Sverdlovsk Region , Smolensk region, Tambov region, Tver region, Tomsk region, Tula region, Tyumen region, Ulyanovsk region, Chelyabinsk region, Yaroslavl region, cities of federal significance – Moscow, St. AO – will be held based on the periods of quarters and trimesters established in a particular educational institution.

School vacation schedule for the 2022–2023 academic year in the Moscow Region

A unified vacation schedule has been established for all schools in the Moscow Region for the new academic year, in total, schoolchildren will have five weeks of rest in the upcoming academic period. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Education of the Moscow region.

“In the schools of the Moscow region, vacations will be held according to a single schedule – in terms of trimesters,” the words of the vice-governor of the Moscow region, Irina Kaklyugina, are quoted in the text.

According to her, students will have five weeks off during the upcoming school period. As explained in the ministry, the holidays will be held from October 10 to 16, from November 21 to 27, from December 31 to January 8, from February 20 to 26, and from April 3 to 9.

“Since last year, all schools in the region have switched to a modular system of education. This year, this system continues. Thus, with a five-day school week, schools will have 164 school days and 37 days of vacation, ”added Kaklyugina.

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0044 “Modular mode of education”

In accordance with the letter dated 19.01.2022 No 01-50 / 02-8222 “To the heads of state educational organizations,
implementing basic educational programs, subordinate to the Department of Education and Science of the City of Moscow

holidays for the 2022–2023 academic year in St.

Petersburg

In accordance with Federal Law No. 273-FZ of December 29, 2012 “On Education in the Russian Federation”, Order No. 115 of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation of March 22, 2021 “On Approval of the Procedure for Organizing and the implementation of educational activities in the main general education programs – educational programs of primary general, basic general and secondary general education”, clause 3.2 of the Regulations on the Education Committee, approved by Decree of the Government of St. Petersburg dated February 24, 2004 No 225, in order to organize the work of state educational institutionsPetersburg, implementing the main general education programs (hereinafter referred to as educational institutions), in the 2022/2023 academic year:

Start date of the academic year

— September 1, 2022 ).

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Schools in Moscow go on vacation ahead of time

Alexander Kryazhev / RIA Novosti

School holidays in Moscow will start three days ahead of schedule – from December 27th. The school was informed about this by the city’s Department of Education, two interlocutors told Vedomosti: a school teacher in the Eastern Administrative District, as well as a parent of one of the students in the Northern Administrative District of the capital. According to the teacher, official documents have not yet been received: “Orally, early vacations have already been announced to us since December 27.” According to another interlocutor of Vedomosti, students, their parents and teachers were notified that the holidays would begin on December 27 and last until 9January 2022 inclusive “due to the difficult epidemiological situation.” The decision was made on the basis of a letter of recommendation from the Department of Education dated December 13, he added.

Vedomosti found the decision to leave for early holidays, made on the basis of a letter from the Department of Education (No. 01-50/02-2605/21), on the websites of several Moscow schools. The press service of the Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Social Affairs Anastasia Rakova and the capital’s headquarters for combating coronavirus did not respond to Vedomosti’s inquiries about whether schools received recommendations to extend the New Year holidays for schoolchildren. The Department of Education also did not respond to a request to whom and why the letters were sent.

The number of cases of covid in Moscow on December 14 was 2459, follows from the data of the operational headquarters, and a week before – 3004 people. On December 8, the mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin, announced that the number of patients with coronavirus had decreased by more than 40% compared to the peak figures in early November. Moscow City Duma deputy Maxim Kruglov said that the parliament was not notified about the early start of the holidays, especially, in his opinion, the epidemiological situation is now improving.

She hasn’t improved in principle, says Aleksey Paramonov, general director of the Rassvet clinic. “Theoretically, an earlier start of the holidays should reduce the spread of the virus in teams,” Paramonov said. “But in fact, children will walk around shopping centers, go to visit – nothing will change.” The only rational measure is the vaccination of adults, the expert said.

According to Vedomosti, a source in the presidential administration told in November about the discussion of a possible extension of the New Year holidays due to an increase in the incidence of coronavirus and low rates of vaccination. An option is being considered in which another non-working week can be added to the holidays in January or in advance, in December, in order to slow down the pace of the pandemic, the source said.

Any quarantine measures improve the epidemiological situation, political scientist Sergei Polyakov notes: “There is no point in declaring a lockdown now, and the population has a negative attitude towards it, plus it is a blow to the economy. And measures like extended holidays will keep everyone happy.”

The head of Bashkiria, Radiy Khabirov, announced on December 5 that he did not exclude the possibility of extending the holidays. A number of regions will start them earlier. Holidays for schoolchildren of the Stavropol Territory will begin on December 26, for students of Khabarovsk and Komsomolsk-on-Amur – from December 27, follows from the decisions of the governor and the regional headquarters.