| StorageSite | UCL Institute of Education |
| Level | File |
| Reference Number | UWT/D/5/39 |
| Title | 'Holidays' |
| Date | 1923 - 1951 |
| Description | Correspondence between Ethel Froud and A. Muriel Pierotti (NUWT), Miss E. Nixon (member of NUWT Travel Club), Agnes Dawson and other NUWT members, and various holiday tour companies including World Friendship Tours, the Camping Club of Great Britain and Ireland, the Workers Travel Association Ltd, the Civil Service and Scholastic Holiday Association and International Holiday and Study Tours regarding:
Enquiry from World Friendship Tours if the NUWT know of families willing to accommodate visiting Dutch schoolboys in return for an exchange trip for their own children to Holland the following year and request for advertisement of their scheme
Requests for copies of the NUWT London Unit Travel Club booklet
Complimentary Register from the Civil Service and Scholastic Holiday Association listing Recommended Holiday Accommodation
Details and publicity information from various travel companies
Request from International Holiday and Study Tours company for publicity through the NUWT and invitation to take part in a summer vacation tour to the Baltic States (includes a letter from Miss E. Nixon of the NUWT Travel Club giving her views on the inadequacies of the tours on offer from this organisation)
Reports of complaints from NUWT members on an International Holiday and Study Tours trip to Rome
Translation of a telegram from a fascist organisation in Rome inviting British teachers on the International Holiday and Study Tours trip to visit them (there is no reply to this)
Details of the aims and organisation of the Camping Club of Great Britain and Ireland
Opinions of NUWT members on calls for the spread over, or staggering of school holidays
Notice of the services offered by the Workers Travel Association Ltd
Correspondence between Ethel Froud (NUWT), various Local Education Committees, the Ministry of Education, the Association of Education Committees and NUWT members including Helen Dedman, regarding holiday arrangements for schools in England and Wales.
The correspondence covers:
NUWT Statement 'deploring the disparity in holiday arrangements being made throughout the country' and requesting establishment of minimum holidays for teachers and children
Requests for help and advice from NUWT members in cases where the school or district the teacher works in has no set defined holidays
Disparities in holiday arrangements between different schools in the same Local Education Authority, and between schools throughout the country
Responses from Local Education Committees outlining the holiday arrangements in place in their areas, including statistics and observations
Care of children during school holidays
Completed questionnaires sent to NUWT members asking them when is the most convenient time to receive Central Council nomination papers and 'what is the period of the summer holidays in your District?'
Complaints and requests for help from NUWT members over decisions of their school or Local Authority to change or shorten school holidays
NUWT Resolution from London Teachers protesting against the differentiation between holiday lengths for primary and secondary schools
NUWT letter of concern regarding staggered holidays, sent to the Association of Education Committees
Summary of details of holiday arrangements in various Local Education Authorities
Replies from Local Education Committees detailing their decision regarding school holidays for pupils and teachers
Pamphlets and leaflets from various travel companies including International Friendship Holidays:
'The New City Gazette' - holiday brochure for Bognor
Board of Education Circulars and Administrative Memorandums regarding:
'Care of children during school holidays'
'There's more room, remember, in June and September - staggered holidays for comfort', Ministry of Labour and National Service
NUWT London Unit Travel Club booklet 'Register of Holiday Addresses at home and abroad'
Press cuttings regarding:
The practice of 'grace terms' for teachers who have put in specified number of years of service
Reports of requests for a Sabbatical year in the teaching profession
Reports of the implementation of staggered school holidays by Local Education Authorities
Reports of how teachers spend their holidays - concentrating on the number of teachers who apply for further courses of study during holidays from teaching
Staggered (also called 'spreadover') school holidays
Reports on the success of an experiment in Leeds of opening holiday schools with voluntary attendance
Reports of plans to keep schools open during the holidays so that children can play under supervision if their mothers want to undertake war work
National Association of Schoolmasters Bulletin No. 22, 1942 - discussion of school holidays
London County Council Education Bulletin, 30/10/1946
'The Woman Teacher', 24/07/1942 - includes back page report 'Holidays in London Schools'
Extracts from Hansard, questions in the House of Commons regarding holiday arrangements in schools |
| Extent | 4 folders |
| AccessStatus | Open |
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