Adding School Terms

Adding School Terms


If some, or all, of your children only attend during term-time you will need to set-up your LEA school terms before scheduling their sessions. 
You will need to add 6 school terms for each year (2 in Autumn, 2 in Spring & 2 in Summer). Adding terms in this way will create the non-term-time periods which these children do not attend. 

To set-up your school terms, do the following:
  1.  Click on the Settings button and select 'School Terms':



    This will display the School Terms page:



  2.  Click on the 'Add Term' button. The form on the right-hand side of the page will be enabled.
  3.  Enter the term name (e.g. Spring Term Part 1 2020)
  4.  Enter the start date and end date of the term. 
  5.  Add some notes if you wish.
  6.  Click on the 'Save' button. The term will be added to the dropdown list on the left-hand side of the page:



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