inset day
Baker day

Looking at most of the comments here I presume there's a school inset day today.

Local schools hold an inset day so that children can have the day off.

On the inset day, the staff are required to attend training or complete administration tasks.

Expand this to cover planned closures, such as inset days, and you have a site that could be useful year-round.

Teachers in state schools are required to undertake 5 inset days in addition to the 190 teaching days they are required to deliver each year.

There are too many inset days, ethnic immersion days, charity days, social awareness days all of which are days when the children miss lessons.

Inset days were introduced in 1988 under a Conservative government, by the minister then responsible, Kenneth Baker as part of a series of reforms, including the introduction of the National Curriculum.

Teachers who are parents themselves may have greater problems than other working parents as they are unable to take ad hoc days off to look after their own children whenever an Inset day is scheduled at their children's school.

One third of teachers say that they have had the use of INSET days to conduct their review: the same proportion have undertaken assessment of pupils especially for this purpose and have kept a diary as part of the review process.

Bright students are also brainwashed into worrying about every aspect of global issues instead of concentrating on their own education, at my sons school there are so many days devoted to cultural awareness, immersion days, charity days, inset days that there aren't very many LEARNING days.

Inappropriate catch-up programmes,costing over one billion pounds during the next decade, facile Ofsted reports lacking in transparency, the 200 'scientific' advisers in the DCSF who spectacularly failed to examine the evidence for expensive intervention programmes, Inset days, LA advisers without specialist knowledge - the list is inexhaustible.

Sometimes we get what they call baker days.

"Baker days" provided a very limited number of whole days for corporate preparation.

For this reason, they were originally, and are still occasionally, referred to as Baker Days.

He also introduced in-service training days for teachers, which became popularly known as "Baker days".

It was assisted when, in a period before "Baker days", the local authority agreed to the school having its own in-service training days.

Freeport celebrates the founder of the town with Tutty Baker days in the downtown area.

The article stated, "If all the ships at Bikini had been fully manned, the Baker Day bomb would have killed 35,000 crewmen.

In 2007 Mayor of the City of Tulsa, Kathy Taylor, proclaimed December 23 as "Chet Baker Day".

In 2005 Oklahoma Governor Brad Henry and the Oklahoma House of Representatives proclaimed July 2 as "Chet Baker Day".

There are training days at teachers' centres for new teachers, LEATGS courses for in-service development, management courses for deputies and new headteachers, and of course the Baker days for whole-staff development.

A group may be requested by the school itself - a more frequent occurrence now under the new GRIST and 'Baker day' arrangements - especially if the head, a persuasive special needs post-holder, pastoral care tutor, or other members of staff have heard of such groups working well elsewhere.

On May 19, 2011, Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber signed SB809 into law, designating each February 24 as Edward D. Baker Day in Oregon at the urging of local members of the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War.