Number of students - new information

[Dai Evans]

No: HPFGUIDX 27540

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., "Steve Vander Ark" <vderark at b...> wrote:
> > There are 278 days in a school year.
> As for the number of days, we know that they start on 1 September 
and 
> end in the third week of Juune (or pretty close to that...depends 
on 
> the book, really). So how many days would that be? Are they 
counting 
> weekends and holidays in that number? How many days do they take at 
> Christmas and Easter? 

This is pretty simple to work out, as it's based on the british 
school year.
 It must include weekends, otherwise you get 55 weeks in the year 
(278/5).
If, however you include weekends, then you get 39 weeks in the year.
The other eleven are taken up by Christmas break ( 2 weeks), easter 
break (2 weeks), summer break (6 weeks) and a 1 week half term break 
per term, giving the other 13 weeks.

Just like it was when I was in school.


Dai